Georgios Makris is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in Byzantine art and archaeology, placing particular emphasis on monastic landscapes and material culture. An active archaeologist, he has participated in several projects and currently directs the Maroneia Archaeological Project, supported by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. This project studies the archaeological remains and ceramics from the city of Maroneia in Thrace (Greece) from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Makris has written on Byzantine donor portraits, the relationship between lay and monastic communities, and, lately, on jewelry and body ornaments. He recently co-convened, with Maroula Perisanidi, the fall colloquium on Disability in Middle and Late Byzantium at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.