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Naomi Pitamber is an Assistant Professor in Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University, specializing in Byzantine and Crusader-era art and architectural history. Her research reconstructs cultural landscapes of medieval Mediterranean societies, with particular focus on the Laskarid dynasty's artistic production during exile from Constantinople.
Her scholarship examines:
- Reconfiguration of Byzantine identity through exilic art practices
- Architectural innovations under the Laskarid dynasty (1204-1261)
- Digital documentation of endangered Byzantine heritage sites
- Nationalist appropriation of medieval monuments
Her forthcoming monograph 'Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss' (Cambridge University Press, 2025) reinterprets the Palaiologan Renaissance as originating from Laskarid innovations. She co-directs the digital humanities project 'Salvaging Crete', documenting architectural conditions of late Byzantine churches. Current fieldwork investigates Mediterranean sites where medieval architectural layers have been erased for nationalist narratives.
Research has been supported by:
- Getty Research Institute (2022-2024)
- American Council of Learned Societies (2023)
- Millard Meiss Publication Fund (2025)
- Alice Coonley Higgins Institute (2025)
