Dr. Heather Badamo

Heather Badamo writes on the arts of Byzantium and the East Christian world. Her research focuses on the intersection of Christian and Islamic visual culture, in particular the circulation of objects across the frontier zones of the eastern Mediterranean, with the related dissemination and transformation of artistic forms, ideas, and beliefs. Her book, entitled Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East (Pennsylvania States University Press, 2023), investigates how different Christian and Muslim communities mobilized portraits of St. George to stake a claim to their place in a world of many faiths.