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Participant Biographies
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Oleksander Halenko is senior researcher at the Institute for Political and Ethnic
Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and an assistant professor
of History at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Halenko has worked extensively
on the history of the steppe and Black Sea trade in the Byzantine and Ottoman periods.
He has been a fellow at Princeton University (1998-1999, 2003), and at the Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute (2001-2002). He has also held research grants from the
Maison des sciences de l’Homme in Paris, Central European University, and Cambridge
University. Halenko has authored, edited, or translated numerous books, including his
recent volume The Crimea in Ethno-Political Dimension (Kyiv, 2005). His book in
progress uses documentary sources to trace the slave trade in the Black Sea region
from its origins to the eighteenth century.
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Renata Holod is professor of Islamic art, architecture and archaeology in the Department of Art History,
and Curator, in the Near East Section of the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania. In recent years,
she has also overseen an ongoing scholarly exchange between the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute of
Archaeology, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. She has recently won grants from the 1984 Foundation
and the Ukrainian Studies Fund, and served as Clark Professor at the Clark Art Institute and Williams College.
She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Van Berchem, Geneva. Her current work includes
the progressive publication of Jerba Studies, the report on the archaeological and archival survey of the
island of Jerba, Tunisia, and she is co-author and co-editor of the forthcoming volume The City in the Islamic
World (Leiden, 2006).
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Vitaliy Otroshchenko is chair of the department of Copper- and Bronze-Age Archaeology
at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a
Professor (Dr. hab.) of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. The author of over 150 books and
articles, Otroshchenko sits on the editorial boards of the journals Arkheologiya and
Baltic-Pontic Studies. He is a member of the Permanent Council of International Union
for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. As chief of the Institute of Archaeology’s
Zaporizhska Expedition from 1975-1987, he oversaw the initial excavation of the Chingul
Kurgan.
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Yuriy Rassamakin holds the post of Senior Scientist at the Institute of Archaeology
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. From 1997 to 1999, Rassamakin was a fellow
at the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Berlin; he has also been a Fulbright Visiting
Scholar to the University of Pennsylvania (2001-2002). He is the author of the recent
monograph Die nordpontische Steppe in der Kupferzeit (Mainz, 2004). Rassamakin is a
corresponding member of the European Association of Archaeologists, and a member of the
editorial boards of several journals, including Eurasia Antiqua: Zeitschrift für
Archäologie Eurasiens. As vice-chief of the Institute of Archaeology’s Zaporizhka
Expedition from 1981-1987, he was the excavating archaeologist of the Chingul Kurgan.
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Warren Woodfin earned his Ph.D. in art history in 2002 with a dissertation on late-Byzantine
liturgical vestments and their relation to the dress of the imperial court. He has since
completed a book manuscript on the subject, The Embodied Icon: Vestments and Sacred Power
in Byzantium. Woodfin authored a catalogue essay and several entries on embroidered textiles
for the Metropolitan Museum’s recent exhibition Byzantium: Faith and Power. He has several
articles in progress or in press dealing with issues raised by the phenomenon of images on
costume. Dr. Woodfin has held teaching positions in art history at Duke University and the
University of Pennsylvania and research fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks, Princeton University,
and the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently Visiting Scholar.
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