Warren T. Woodfin
Warren Woodfin is Kallinikeion Assistant Professor of Byzantine Art at Queens College, City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2002. His research focuses on the art and archaeology of Byzantium and its cultural sphere in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries. He has a particular interest in textiles and dress, and is the author of The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 2012). For the past several years, he has been collaborating with a research team of U.S. and Ukraine based scholars to study a medieval burial complex in the Black Sea steppe. The site, called the Chungul Kurgan, yielded a trove of medieval textiles, precious metalwork, and other artifacts interred with a nomadic leader of the thirteenth century. His recent article on the project (co-authored with Renata Holod and Yuriy Rassamakin) appears in Ars Orientalis 38 (2010), pp. 153-184. He has also published articles in the journals Cahiers Archéologiques, Gesta,and Dumbarton Oaks Papers,and has contributed essays to various edited volumes, including the Metropolitan Museum’s catalogue Byzantium: Faith and Power 1261-1557, ed. Helen Evans (New York, 2004). Prior to joining the faculty at Queens College, Woodfin held teaching and research posts at Duke, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the Metropolitan Museum, and, most recently, a European Research Council-sponsored fellowship for study of the art history of the textile medium at the University of Zurich.