Dr. Agnieszka Szymańska

2016: Junior Fellowship in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University’s Center for Byzantine Studies

2016: Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Andrew W. Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship Program

2015: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship

2014: Dissertation Fellowship, American Research Center in Egypt

2013: Koç University Scholarship, Intensive Graduate Summer Seminar Cappadocia in Context

2012: Spiro Kostof Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians

2015: Graduate Student Paper Prize, 66th Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt (Second Prize)

2012: Graduate Student Paper Prize, Delaware Valley Medieval Association

2017: “From Theater to Church: The Architecture of Divine Spectacles,” 47th Middle Atlantic Symposium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. March 3-4.

2017: “Divine Spectacle: The Early Byzantine Triconch at the Red Monastery in Egypt,” Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC. January 30.

2016: “Apa Enoch, Scribe of Righteousness: Writing the Book of Life in the Egyptian Desert,” 42nd Byzantine Studies Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. October 6-9.

2015: “The Vision of Christ as God: Picturing the Monk’s Spiritual End in Byzantine Egypt,” 41st Byzantine Studies Conference, Columbia University, City University of NY and Fordham University, New York City, NY. October 22-25.

2015: “Divine Spectacle: The Red Monastery Church as a Memory Theater,” Fellows Colloquium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY. May 1.

2015: “Theōria as a Mode of Spiritual Seeing in Early Byzantine Asceticism,” 66th Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Houston, TX. April 24-26.

2015: “Vehicles of Memory: The Early Byzantine Ensemble of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting at the Red Monastery in Egypt,” Graduate Student Conference on Byzantine Studies, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross, Brookline, MA. April 18.

2014: “The Memory of God in the Early Byzantine Sanctuary at the Red Monastery,” 2nd International Conference, Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo, Egypt. December 5-7.

2013: “Designing the Vault of Heaven at the Cappella Palatina, Palermo,” Symposium in Celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. April 13.

2013: “The Mise-en-page of NEP-27,” Toward a “Biography” of a Manuscript: A Copy of the Qur’an from Twelfth-Century Iran, workshop organized by Renata Holod and Yael Rice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. February 22-23.

2012: “The Celestial Firmament and the Geometric Construction of the Muqarnas,” 38th Byzantine Studies Conference, Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston, MA. November 1-4.

2012: “Violence, Asceticism, and the Image of St. Sisinnios at Bawit,” 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Sapienza Università di Roma, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Italy. September 17-22.

2012: “The Alchemical Harmony of the Musical Firmament and the Muqarnas,” 65th Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Detroit, MI. April 18-22.