Profiles
Monica White
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Email: mwhite1@stanford.edu
Monica White’s research interests include the religious, military, and artistic history of Byzantium and Kievan Rus. She received a BA with high honors in Russian and East European Studies from Wesleyan University and a PhD in Slavonic Studies from the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse). Her dissertation, Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200, won an award from the Hellenic Foundation for the best doctoral thesis in the United Kingdom in Byzantine/Medieval history. As a Research Fellow of Clare College, she completed major projects on Byzantine and Rus enamels and the development of dragon-slaying miracles in Byzantine hagiography, as well as teaching in the Faculty of History and the Department of Slavonic Studies. Her work has appeared in The Russian Review, Byzantion, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (forthcoming), and The Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence (forthcoming). She is currently preparing her doctoral dissertation for publication. She will be teaching a course on saints and sainthood in the Orthodox world in autumn 2007.
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