Teresa Shawcross (History and Hellenic Studies) has received the Lykourgeio Prize from the Academy of Athens, Greece’s national academy of arts, for her book “Wisdom’s House, Heaven’s Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages.”
The prize recognizes “an original, synthetic work [on] a subject relating to the history of the Greek nation from earliest antiquity to the contemporary era,” according to the organization. In the award citation, the plenary assembly of the Academicians commended Shawcross for “greatly advanc[ing] the study of the history and geography of our Mediterranean Sea, as well as the knowledge of the philosophy, theology, and manners of those dwelling around it.”
Shawcross, an associate professor of history and Hellenic studies and an associated faculty member in the Program in Medieval Studies, is a historian of the medieval Mediterranean world. Her research situates itself at the interstices between Byzantium, Islam and the Latin West. “Wisdom’s House, Heaven’s Gate” was published in September 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Read the award announcement on the Department of History website.
Read a Q&A about her book on the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies website.
