Awards

Titled Professor - 2024

Donald A. Rogers Professor

About Deborah M. Deliyannis

Deborah M. Deliyannis studies the history and material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. She earned an undergraduate degree in Archaeological Studies (Yale University, 1988) and a doctorate in the History of Art (University of Pennsylvania, 1994), and her research focuses on textual descriptions of material culture, particularly how and why buildings were described in Latin historical texts. She has published extensively on the city of Ravenna, Italy, from the fifth to the ninth centuries, including a Latin edition and English translation of the ninth-century author Agnellus’ Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis (Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna), and a general history of the city and its monuments, Ravenna in Late Antiquity (2010). Her most recent book, Fifty Early Medieval Things (2019), is a handbook of early medieval material culture, cowritten with Paolo Squatriti and Hendrik Dey. She has also edited three volumes of collected essays and published numerous articles. From 1995 to 2021, Deliyannis served as the Executive Editor of The Medieval Review, a book review journal in medieval studies that is one of the earliest and longest-running online journals in the world. In 2020 she was awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies, in 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and she is a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2024-25.