Dr. Lynn Jones
Assistant Professor,
Byzantine & Early Christian Art & Architecture
PhD University of Illinois
409 Fine Arts Building
(850) 644-7069
lajones@fsu.edu
Lynn Jones received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Illinois. Before coming to FSU she taught at a variety of universities, including the University of Maryland, the University of Minnesota, Cornell and Yale. The level of her scholarship has been recognized by many institutions; she has held a Junior Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, a NEH Fellowship for Independent Scholars, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell and a Mellon Foreign Area Fellowship at the Library of Congress. She is currently (2006-07) President of the Byzantine Scholars Association of North America, the organizing body of the annual Byzantine Studies Conference.
Dr. Jones is interested in issues of medieval identity and focuses on the eastern medieval world. She has published on medieval Armenia, Byzantium, Georgia and Islam. Her first book, Between Islam and Byzantium: Aght?amar and the Visual Construction of Medieval Armenian Rulership, will be available from Ashgate Publications in December, 2007. Her current work examines the conveyance of Byzantine identity via relics of the True Cross, 550-1204 CE.
Lecture Courses Offered
- From Titus to Justinian: Late Antique and Early Christian Art and Architecture
- Byzantine Art and Architecture
Seminars Offered
- Constantinople
- Medieval Jerusalem
- East of Byzantium