Ph.D. 1970, New York; S.T.L. 1965 (theology), Weston College; M.A. 1962, New York; M.A. 1958 (philosophy), B.A. 1957, Boston College.
Research Interests:
Early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture.
Selected publications:
Mathews, Thomas and Avedis Krikor Sanjian.Armenian Gospel Iconography: the
tradition of the Glajor Gospel. Washington,
D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks 1991.
The Byzantine Churches of Istanbul: A Photographic Survey.University Park: Pennsylvannia State University Press, 1976.
The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy.University Park: Pennsylvannia State University Press, 1971.
Selected honors:
Getty Fund Grant for Collaborative Research: "From Pagan to Byzantine
Icons in Late Antique Egypt."
Committee of Senior Fellows, Dumbarton Oaks, 2001-03.
2001 Guest Curator, J. Paul Getty Museum, The Gladzor Gospels.
1999-2000 Samuel H. Kress research grant, Late Antique Panel Painting.
Visiting Committee to Medieval Art and the Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, 1996-present.
J. Clawson Mills Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996-97.
Guest Curator for "Treasures in Heaven" exhibit of Armenian
Illuminated Manuscripts, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, under grant from
N.E.H.
John Langeloth Loeb Professorship in the History of Art, 1993-present.
Hagop Kevorkian Fund Research Grant, 1991.
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, spring 1990.