A BRIEF ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Eric A. Ivison is an associate professor of Byzantine and medieval history at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and the CUNY College of Staten Island in New York City. Dr. Ivison received his academic training at the nationally recognized Centre for Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham, under the tutelage of Professors A.A.M. Bryer and John F. Haldon. Dr. Ivison received a Ph.D. in Byzantine studies in 1993. Prof. Ivison's research interests and publications focus on medieval Byzantium, with particular emphasis upon urban history and archaeology, and Byzantine burial customs. Dr. Ivison has researched and traveled extensively in Greece and Turkey, spending the years 1988-1995 in Greece as a student at the British School at Athens. Dr. Ivison has extensive archaeological experience in Byzantine archaeology, having worked with major excavation projects including the Athenian Agora and ancient Corinth (American School of Classical Studies in Athens), and the Aphrodisias Excavations in Turkey (New York University, NY). Dr. Ivison's association with the Amorium Excavation Project began in 1992 when he was invited to work at the site by the late director, Prof. Martin R. Harrison. Dr. Ivison has worked as principal Byzantine archaeologist at Amorium since 1993, and has served as assistant director to the Director of the Amorium Project, Dr. Christopher S. Lightfoot. Since 1994 Dr. Ivison has been directing the excavation of the Lower City Church and is closely involved in the current program of conservation and publication. Dr. Ivison has published essays in leading Byzantine journals and in volumes of collected studies. Dr. Ivison has been a regular contributor to the Amorium publications since 1993, writing and co-editing preliminary reports with Dr. Chris Lightfoot, and contributing to the first two volumes of the final reports. Dr. Ivison is currently planning a monograph dedicated to the definitive publication of the Lower City Church. Dr. Ivison has held a number of scholarships and awards, including a prestigious fellowship in Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C. (Trustees for Harvard University). Dr. Ivison is also active in the promotion of Byzantine studies in the United States, having served as national president (2000-2001) of the professional organization of Byzantinists in North America, the U.S. Byzantine Studies Conference. Dr. Ivison was also recently elected a member of the U.S. National Committee for Byzantine Studies.

Publications

Chapters in Books

"Polychrome Decoration in the Lower City Church: An Overview," Amorium Reports II: Research Papers and Technical Reports, BAR International Series 1170 , ed. C.S. Lightfoot, (Archaeopress: Oxford, 2003), 119-128.

"Foreward," "Introduction," and "Concluding Remarks," co-written with C.S. Lightfoot, in Amorium Final Reports, Finds I: The Glass (1987-1997), BAR International Series 1070 , by M.A.V. Gill, with contributions by C.S. Lightfoot, E.A. Ivison, and M.T. Wypyski (Archaeopress: Oxford, 2002), v-vi, 1-31, 259-264.

"Burials and urbanism in Late Antique and Byzantine Corinth," in N. Christie and S.T. Loseby eds., Towns in Transition: urban evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Scolar Press: Aldershot UK/Brookfield USA, 1996), 99-125.

"Latin Tomb Monuments in the Levant," in P. Lock and G.D.R. Sanders eds., The Medieval Archaeology of Greece (Oxbow Monograph No. 59: Oxford, 1996), 91-106.

Articles

“The Amorium Project: The 2002 Excavation Season,” contribution ed. C.S. Lightfoot et al. , DOP 59 (2005), forthcoming.

“The Amorium Project: The 2001 Excavation Season,” contribution ed. C.S. Lightfoot et al. , DOP 58 (2004), forthcoming.

“Francis and Eliza MacDonald: Staten Island Collectors,” Proceedings of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences (2005), forthcoming.

"Byzantine Ceramic Chalices: An Addendum," BMGS, 25 (2001), 216-220.

"The Amorium Project: The 1998 Excavation Season," with C.S. Lightfoot et al., DOP 54 (2001), 371-399.

"Urban Renewal and Imperial Revival (730-1025)," Byz. Forsch. 26 (2000), 1-46.

"`Supplied for the Journey to Heaven': A moment of West-East Cultural Exchange - Byzantine Funerary Chalices," BMGS 24 (2000), 147-93.

"The Amorium Project: The 1995 Excavation Season," with C.S. Lightfoot et al., DOP 51 (1997), 291-300.

"Amorium Excavations 1995: The Eighth Preliminary Report," co-written and edited with C.S. Lightfoot, Anat. Studies 46 (1996), 91-110.

"The Lower City Church ," "The Carved Stones," & "The Mosaics," in C.S. Lightfoot and E.A. Ivison eds. "Amorium Excavations 1994: The Seventh Preliminary Report," Anat. Studies 45 (1995), 105-38.

"Carved stone," in C.S. Lightfoot et al. "Amorium Excavations 1993: the sixth preliminary report" Anat. Studies 44 (1994), 105-128; 117-122.

"The carved stones," in R.M. Harrison et al. "Excavations at Amorium: 1992 interim report," Anat. Studies. 43 (1993), 147-62; 156-59.

"Funerary Monuments of the Gattelusi at Mytilene," BSA 87 (1992), 423-437.

"The Seyh Murad Mescidi at Constantinople ," BSA 85 (1990), 79-87.

Conference Proceedings

“Amorium in the Byzantine Dark Ages,” in Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium, ed. Joachim Henning (Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, forthcoming)

"The Middle Byzantine Sculptor at Work: Evidence from the Lower City Church at Amorium," in La sculpture byzantine (VIIe-XIIe siècles). Actes du colloque internationale organisé par l'Ecole française d'Athènes et l'Ephorie byzantine des Cyclades-Golfe Saronique (6-10 septembre 2000), Supplément au Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, eds. Ch. and V. Pennas, and C. Vanderheyde (De Boccard: Paris, forthcoming).

"Death and burial at medieval Corinth (c. 960-1400)" Medieval Europe, Pre-printed Papers, (York, United Kingdom, 1992).

"Religious symbolism and social status: the iconography of the Byzantine arcosolium tomb" Medieval Europe, Pre-printed Papers (York, United Kingdom, 1992).

Reviews

Scott Redford, ed., et al., The Archaeology of the Medieval Frontier in the Near East. Excavations at Gritille, Turkey, Philadelphia, PA / Boston, MA, 1998" Speculum 75 (2000), 785-786.

"The churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus, Volume II: L-Z (Excluding Tyre ), by Denys Pringle. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. An Archaeological Gazetteer, by Denys Pringle. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. Qedem: The Later Periods, Tel Aviv, 1996." American Journal of Archaeology 103 (1999), 582-584.

"C. Foss, Survey of Medieval Castles of Anatolia II: Nicomedia (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara , Monograph 21). In American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998), 219-20.

Recent Conference Papers

“Urbanism in Byzantine Asia Minor: A Reappraisal,” at Urban and Rural Settlement in Anatolia and the Levant 500-1000 AD: New Evidence from Archaeology (Symposiarchs: Prof. Clive Foss, Georgetown University and Prof. Johannes Koder, University of Vienna ). Dumbarton Oaks, April 22-24, 2005.

“Amorium and the Medieval Byzantine City,” at Post-Roman Towns , Trade and Settlement in Europe, Byzantium and the Near East. Bad-Homburg, Germany, September 30-October 3, 2004.

“The Byzantine Stone-Mason at Work: New Evidence from the Lower City Church at Amorium.” 28 th Annual Byzantine studies Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 4-6, 2002.

"Charon's Obol or Apotropaic Talisman? Coins in medieval Byzantine Graves." International Byzantine Congress, Paris, France, August, 2001; Table Ronde: Rituel et Cerémonie.

"Workshop Practices and Polychromy in Byzantine Anatolia. Sculptures from the Lower City Church at Amorium, Turkey." Colloque sur la Sculpture Byzantine, Ècole Française, Athens, Greece, 2000.

"Typikon and Taphos: Burial and Commemoration in Byzantine Monastic Typika." Invited speaker in Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium: New Insights into Byzantine Monasticism: Evidence of the Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., March 2000.

"'A Profit Extraordinarily Accursed': Grave-robbing in Medieval Byzantium," 25th US Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Maryland at College Park, M.A., November 1999.

"Common Culture or Cultural Identity? Approaches to Greeks and Latins in the Late Medieval Aegean." Invited speaker in colloquium Greek East and Latin West, c. 1050 to 1453: Anxieties of Influence, Princeton University, program in Hellenic Studies and Program in Medieval Studies, 1999.