Research Interests for Annabel J Wharton

My work has focused on Late Antique and Byzantine art and culture, but I have also investigated the effect of modernity on the medieval past and its landscapes, first in my study of the first generation of Hilton International Hotels (Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture, University of Chicago Press, 2001) and most recently in a book titled Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks, University of Chicago Press, 2006). I am beginning work on a new project considering the modern recycling of pre-modern buildings. This study will document the physical, economic and political implications of contemporary appropriations of architecture and history.

Representative Publications

1. Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Themeparks (2006), University of Chicago Press
2. Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture (2001), Chicago: University of Chicago Press (selected as one of the best books of 2001 by the Economist.)
3. Refiguring the Post Classical City: Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem and Ravenna (1995), New York: Cambridge University Press
4. Art of Empire: Painting and Architecture of the Byzantine Periphery. A Comparative Study of Four Provinces (1988), University Park, Pa & London: Pennsylvania State University Press
5. Tokali Kilise. Tenth Century Metropolitan Art in Byzantine Cappadocia, Dumbarton Oaks Studies XXII (1986), Washinton, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees of Harvard University
6. with A. P. Kazhdan, Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (1985), Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press (Reprinted in paperback, 1990.)