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Associate Professor
Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medieval Art and Archaeology
Ph.D., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 2000
M.A., Courtauld Institute of Art, 1994
Holger Klein was educated in Art History, Early Christian Archaeology, and German Literature at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, London, and Bonn. His research focuses on Late Antique, Early Medieval, and Byzantine art and architecture, more specifically, on the cult of relics, reliquaries, and issues of cultural and artistic exchange. His most recent archaeological survey project focused on the church of Hagia Sophia in Vize (Turkey). He currently serves as a Consulting Curator of Medieval Art for the Cleveland Museum of Art and as a guest curator for the exhibition Matter of Faith: Relics and Reliquaries of the Middle Ages scheduled to open in Cleveland in 2010..
931 Schermerhorn Hall
Telephone: (212) 854-3230
E-mail: hak56@columbia.edu
Office Hours: On Leave
The Church of Hagia Sophia in Bizye (Vize): Results of the Fieldwork Seasons 2003 and 2004, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 60 (2006), 249-270.
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Sacred Relics and Imperial Ceremonies at the Great Palace of Constantinople, F. A. Bauer (Hrsg.), Visualisierungen von Herrschaft, BYZAS 5 (2006) 79-99.
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Eastern Objects and Western Desires: Relics and Reliquaries between Byzantium and the West, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 58. (2004), pp. 283-314.
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