Committee

Committee ASEB/SGBS/SSSB 2026

Co-President: Manuela Studer
Manuela Studer-Karlen is Professor of Byzantine Art History at the University of Vienna (since 2025). She previously held a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship at the University of Bern. Her research has been supported by prestigious fellowships, including those from Dumbarton Oaks, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. Her first book, published in 2012, explored representations of the deceased on early Christian sarcophagi. In 2017, she received the Franz Joseph II Liechtenstein Prize for her habilitation on the image of Christ Anapeson. Her research focuses on the visual culture of Late Antiquity, the relationship between text, image, and space in Byzantine churches, and the art of medieval Georgia.

Co-President: Renate Burri
Renate Burri is a Maître d’enseignement et de recherche (‘Senior Lecturer’) in Byzantine Literature and Civilisation at the University of Geneva. She studied Classics and Russian at the Universities of Bern, St Petersburg and Khabarovsk, and received her PhD in Greek Philology from the University of Göttingen in 2013. Her doctoral thesis on the Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy’s Geography was awarded the Christian-Gottlob Heyne Prize.

Renate Burri has worked as a research assistant in Classics (at the Universities of Bern and Göttingen) and Early Church History (at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Bern), as a Post-Doc researcher at the Department of Byzantine Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, and as a lecturer in Greek and Latin language and literature at the University of Fribourg (CH). In addition, she has held numerous fellowships at renowned research institutions in Europe and the USA.

Her main areas of research are Byzantine manuscripts, textual editing, the history of science (particularly ancient geography), the intellectual scene of the Palaeologan period, and Greek epistolography.

Vice-president: Maria Campagnolo-Pothitou
Maria Campagnolo-Pothitou is a founding member of ASEB and a research associate at the Numismatic Cabinet of the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva, where she is responsible for the Byzantine numismatic and seal collections. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and archaeology from the University of Athens (1979–1984) and a bachelor’s degree in Arabic and history from the University of Geneva (1986–1993).
Main publications:

  • « Les échanges de prisonniers entre Byzance et l’islam aux IXe et Xe siècles », in Journal of Oriental and African studies, Athens. – No 7 (1995), p. 1-56 (mémoire de licence)
  • « Deux monnaies byzantines rares et inédites : des tremisses de Michel III (842-867) », Schweizer Münzblätter, 2010, Vol. 60 (237), p. 18-24.
  • « “Comme un relent d’iconoclasme” au début du XIIe siècle. Le témoignage de la sigillographie », in  Matteo Campagnolo, Paul Magdalino, Marielle Martiniani-Reber, André-Louis Rey (éd.), L’aniconisme dans l’art religieux byzantin. – Actes du colloque de Genève (1-3 octobre 2009), Genève, 2014, p. 175-191, Genève, 2015, p. 175 – 195.
  • « La bulle de 5 solidi (pentasoldhia) de Constantin IX Monomaque (1042-1055) », Studies in Byzantine sigillography 12, Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016, p. 71-81.
  • (avec Jean-Claude Cheynet), Les sceaux de la collection George Zacos au Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, Genève, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Milan, 5 Continents, 2016, 521 pages (catalogue raisonné).
  • (avec Pantelis Charalampakis), « The Radenos family : a prosopographic study   through literary and sigillographic evidence », Revue des études byzantines 77, 2019, p. 5-106
  • « Deux nouveaux hyperpères contremarqués de Jean III Doukas-Βatatzès (1222-1254). Retour sur la question », 2024 (sous presse dans Numizmatika, Sfragistika i Epigrafika 18).

Treasury: Nikolas Hächler
Nikolas Hächler studied history, philosophy, and political science at the University of Zurich. In his dissertation, he examined the history of the Roman Senate from 235 to 284 CE; in his habilitation thesis, he then focused on forms of public resilience under the reign of emperor Heraclius (610–641). His research interests focus on the history of Greco-Roman antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, with a particular emphasis on topics in social, economic, cultural, and intellectual history based on literary and documentary sources.

Webmaster: Frederick G. W. Eberhardt
Frederick Eberhardt completed his master’s degree in Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna in 2024. He is currently completing an internship as a history educator at the Museum Aargau.

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