Project Team and Advisers

Project Team 

Student Research Assistants
Mathilde Mioche, BA History of Art (Y3), UCL
Katrina Khvesenya,BA History of Art (Y3), UCL
Flavia Dal Brollo, BA, History of Art (Y2), UCL

Laidlaw Scholars
Marco Pozzi, BA History (Y1), UCL

Student Volunteers
Agnese Sartor (BA, MA)

Former Team Members
Dr Vitagrazia Pisani, Universität Hamburg.

Project Advisers

 Dr Antonella Brita, Researcher and Lecturer for Semitic Philology, Università degli Studi di Firenze. 

• Dr Delio Vania Proverbio, Scriptor Orientalis, Vatican Apostolic Library.

• Ms Dorothea Reule, Research Fellow, Hamburg University.

• Dr Elisabeth R. O’Connell, Byzantine World Curator, The British Museum.

• Dr Emilio Bonfiglio, Research Fellow, Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen.

• Mr Eyob Derillo, Curator for the Ethiopic and Ethiopian Collections, British Library.

• Dr Girma Getahun, Independent Scholar, Oxford.

• Dr Kristen D. Windmuller Luna, Curator of African Art, Cleveland Museum of Art.

• Ms Lisa Shekede, Wall Painting Conservation Consultant, The Ethiopian Heritage Fund.

• Dr Mai Musié, Public Engagement Manager, the Bodleian Libraries.

• Ms Marta Silvia Filippini, Book and Manuscript Conservator, Pontificia Università Gregoriana / Vatican Apostolic Library.

• Ms Meron Gebreananaye, PhD Student, Durham University.

• Prof. Michael Gervers, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough.

• Ms Michela Perino, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering (SBAI), Sapienza University of Rome.

• Dr Mikael Muehlbauer, Core Lecturer for Art Humanities, Department of History of Art and Archaeology, Columbia University in the City of New York.

• Prof. Raymond Silverman, History of Art, University of Michigan.

• Prof. Robert Mills, Head of Department, History of Art, UCL.

• Dr Roslyn Adele Walker, Senior Curator, The Arts of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific & The Margaret McDermott Curator of Africa Art, DMA.

• Dr Sebastian P. Brock, Fellow of the British Academy and Retired Reader, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

• Dr Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, Research Fellow, Hamburg University.

• Prof. Steve Delamarter, Emeritus Research Professor, George Fox University.

• Dr Ted Erho, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts, HMML.

• Prof. Timothy Insoll, Al-Qasimi Chair in African and Islamic Archaeology, Director, Centre for Islamic Archaeology, Director of Research, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.

• Dr Umberto Bongianino, Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Art & Architecture, The Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford.

• Prof. Verena Krebs, Junior Professor for Medieval Cultural Realms and their Entanglements, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

• Mrs Yasmin Faghihi, Head of Near and Middle Eastern Department, Manuscripts and Printed Collections, Cambridge University Library

• Ato Yikunnoamlak Mezgebu Zerabiruk, Director, Ethiopian National Archives and Library Agency.