Maria Georgopoulou

Maria Georgopoulou is an art historian and holds a PhD from UCLA. Her scholarly work explores the artistic and cultural interactions of Mediterranean peoples in the medieval and early modern period. She has studied the architecture of Venetian Crete, the art of the crusades and the Ottoman Balkans. She taught at Yale University (1992-2004) where she also founded the Program for Hellenic Studies. Her monograph Venice’s Mediterranean Colonies. Architecture and Urbanism was published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. She is currently the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. During her tenure, the Gennadius Library has expanded its academic offerings and developed new outreach programs and exhibitions to attract and educate an ever-wider audience. These programs have resulted in the publication of the co-edited volume, Ottoman Athens. Archaeology, Topography, History (2019) and three exhibition catalogs, Ioannis Makriyannis. Vital Expression (2018), The Free and the Brave. American Philhellenes and the ‘Glorious Struggle of the Greeks’ (2021), and In the Name of Humanity. American Relief Aid in Greece, 1918-1929 (2023).