#  People 

 



**General Editor**

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**Eurydice Georganteli** studied art history, archaeology and history at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK. Before joining Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture, she was the Barber Institute Keeper of Coins and Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK (2000-2016). A prize-winning author, academic teacher, and curator, she has lectured and held research fellowships in Europe and the United States. In 2012-2016 she was Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow and Principal Investigator of two major European research projects that focus on Cultural Routes, Heritage, and Digital Humanities. A specialist in the arts and archaeology of South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, Eurydice uses coins, art historical and archaeological evidence, written sources and the changing patterns in the geography of transport to trace economic and cultural exchange in late antique and medieval Europe and the Middle East. She is a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy and Principal Investigator at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

**Past Contributors**

**María Aliaga**

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**María Aliaga** is a resident scholar at Mather House (2020-2022). She has a degree in Art History and she is a Mexican flamenco dancer. She is interested in the continued existence of ancient pagan iconography. She is the director of "Flamenco a la Mexicana", a multidisciplinary art project that fuses flamenco with Mexican culture. Her show has been presented in Mexico City, New York City, Boston and Harvard University. She has danced in tablaos in Germany and U.S.A. She produced dance films such as "Querida Remedios" (2018) and "La Catrina y La Llorona" (2016) with which has participated in film festivals and won awards in Israel and the U.S.A. She presented her fashion flamenco collection in SIMOF in Seville, Spain in 2020 and in WeLoveFlamenco (2022). She has been flamenco teacher in dance academies in Mexico City and in Harvard University in Harvard Graduate School of Education and in Mather House. Also in women ́s prisions and in the John Langdon Down Fundation for kids with down ́s syndrome. And her most important role is to be mom of her two kids!

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**Debbie Perez-Casanova** graduated from Harvard with a concentration in the History of Art & Architecture with a focus in Baroque/Rococo artistry and a secondary in Medieval Studies. She is an outspoken advocate for the protection of antiquities and ancient sites that risk destruction and permanent damage at the hands of looters, vandals, the black market, and mismanaged cultural institutions around the world. Deeply inspired by the craftsmanship and history present in monuments that have survived the test of time on her native island of Cuba, she is passionate about preserving the history of culturally significant sites that risk erasure or demolishment at the hands of tyrannical regimes. Outside the academic world, Debbie enjoys collecting antique jewelry and books, visiting museums, and going on impromptu weekend trips.

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**Denise Gieseke-Penizzotto** is a Master of Theology Candidate at Harvard Divinity with a concentration in Religion and the Arts. Her interests lie in unfolding the cultural histories of the past through close examination of objects, artifacts, and cultural sites and of the people who created them. Through the details of a fragment, religions, language, and culinary traditions can be exposed informing us of who was once there while raising our awareness to the interconnectedness of the cultures that exist in the same regions today. This awareness bears to mind today’s cultural issues of preserving ownership and of the repatriation of ancient and sacred artifacts to their places of origin. Denise’s passion for the cultural traditions of the past as imagined through the arts is reflected in her own art practice in the fine arts.



 

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