Evanthia Baboula

D.Phil Oxford University
Assistant Professor
Arts of the East Mediterranean

Fine Arts Building 141
By appointment| Phone 250-721-7952
ebaboula@uvic.ca

Areas of Research

• Ancient and medieval funerary practices; warfare
• Literary and visual sources of Late Byzantine period
• Cross-cultural interactions in the east Mediterranean
• Encounter of east and west in Crusader period
• The post-Byzantine art and architecgture of Greece (focus on the Ottoman period)

Courses

2012-2013
HA 200: Media and Methods
HA 233: The Art of the Medieval Mediterranean
HA 321: Late Antique and Early Christian History in Art
HA 323: Byzantine History in Art
HA 499: Honours Seminar

2011-2012
HA 233: Art of Medieval Mediterranean
HA 321: Late Antique and Early Christian History
HA 323: Byzantine History in Art
HA 420/520: Advanced Seminar in Medieval Art: Gender in Byzantine Art
HA 499: Honours Seminar

2010-2011
HA 323: Byzantine History in Art
HA 420/520: Advanced Seminar in Medieval Art: Themes in Byzantine Painting
HA 499: Honours Seminar

Brief Biography

Eva Baboula (DPhil, Oxford, 2003) is an assistant professor at the Department of History in Art, University of Victoria. Her early work was on the use and exchange of metals in the Late Bronze Age of Crete and Cyprus. In the recent years her interests have turned to historical periods. She teaches mainly on the arts of the East Mediterranean from the Late Antique to the Late Medieval periods. Her current research is centered on the study of the urban topograhpy of the sourthern Greece during the phase of Ottoman rule. She is completing articles on Ottoman fountains and the post-Byzantine writing with the Mongol ruler, Timur.