Naomi Pitamber is an art and architectural historian of the Byzantine and Crusader periods. Her research in Mediterranean region has been supported by the Council for Library and Information Resources, the Council for American Overseas Research Centers, the Archaeological Institute of America, the Fulbright Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, and American Council for Learned Societies. Her first book, Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss: The Recreation of Constantinople in the Laskarid and Palaiologan Eras, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. Her on-going co-directed digital humanities project, Salvaging Crete: Preserving the Legacy of the Artist Ioannis Pagomenos, assembled an interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners from several fields to study and document the current architectural conditions of eight late Byzantine / early modern churches in Crete. Dr. Pitamber is currently at work developing a second book project which explores key buildings in the Mediterranean whose medieval phases have been erased or manipulated in service of nationalist cultural heritage projects.
Naomi Pitamber
Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts
- About
- Scholarly and creative works
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Degrees
- Ph.D. in Art History, University of California, 2015
- M.A. in Art and Art History, University of Texas, 2005
- B.A. in History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
Affiliated Department
Scholarly and creative works
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Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss: The Recreation of Constantinople in the Laskarid and Palaiologan Eras
2026ISBN # 9781009331791CambridgeUK -
Culturally Definitive, Yet Divisive: The Architectural and Religious Heritage of al-Haram al-Sharif / Temple Mount in Jerusalem
Using the Past for the Present: Medieval Narratives in Modern Political and Religious DiscourseRome, ItalyMarch2025Sponsored by John Cabot University -
Panel Discussion: Site specific digital interventions: cultural heritage and community placemaking
ISEA 2025Seoul, KoreaSummer2025 -
Cosmic Order and the Christian Conversion of the Medieval Pantheon
Cult/Space/Presence of Images. A Workshop on the Art and Cultural Historical Impulses of Hans BeltingMax Plank Institute, Rome, ItalyMarch / Spring2024Sponsored by Max Plank Institute, Rome -
Πἀντα ῥεῖ: Change in Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Architecture, Art, and Material Culture, Eds. Jenny Albani and Ioanna Christoforaki
Chapter: Loss, Memory, and Exile: Innovation and Simulation in Laskarid Art and ArchiturePublished by Brepols2023 -
Provenance, Provenience, and the Medieval Basilica of San Marco, Venice
Future/Anterior
Awards and grants
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Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA)
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Cornell Humanities Center
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Dumbarton Oaks / I Tatti
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Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ)
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National Humanities Center
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Cambridge, MA)
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The Rome Prize (Rome, Italy)
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Katz Center for the Advancement of Jewish Studies
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A New Context for the so-called Melisende Psalter (British Library, Egerton 1139)
The International Council for Medieval Art
Jun. 25, 2026 – Jul. 11, 2026 -
A New Context for the So-Called Melisende Psalter (British Library, Egerton 1139)
the Alice Coonley Higgins School for the Humanities (Clark University)
Feb. 23, 2026 – Mar. 8, 2026 -
Image Subvention
the Alice Coonley Higgins Institute for Arts and Humanities at Clark University
Jan. 1, 2025 – Apr. 1, 2025 -
Millard Meiss Image Subvention
College Art Association
Mar. 1, 2025 – Mar. 31, 2025 -
Documenting Cultural Heritage in the Catenate of Italy through Digital Humanities and Augmented Reality
Clark University
Jun. 16, 2024 – Jul. 1, 2024 -
Replacing Byzantium: Laskarid Urban Environments and the Landscape of Loss (1204-1261)
Getty Research Institute
Oct. 17, 2022 – Jun. 30, 2024 -
Replacing Byzantium: Laskarid Urban Environments and the Landscape of Loss (1204-1261)
ACLS
Jul. 1, 2023 – Dec. 31, 2023