Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Deborah Deliyannis specializes in the history and material culture of early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. She earned an undergraduate degree in archaeology and a doctorate in the history of art, but much of her research focuses on the way history was written in the Early Middle Ages, and she has primarily taught in history departments. She has published extensively on the city of Ravenna, Italy, from the fifth to the ninth centuries, including a Latin edition and English translation of the ninth-century author Agnellus’ Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis (Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna), and a general history of the city and its monuments, Ravenna in Late Antiquity (2010). Her most recent book, Fifty Early Medieval Things (2019), is a handbook of early medieval material culture, cowritten with Paolo Squatriti and Hendrik Dey. From 1995 to 2021, Deliyannis served as the Executive Editor of The Medieval Review, a book review journal in medieval studies that was one of the earliest online journals. In 2020 she was awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies, and she was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2022.

Selected Publications

• Deliyannis, Deborah Mauskopf, Paolo Squatriti, and Hendrik Dey. Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.
• Deliyannis, Deborah Mauskopf. Ravenna in Late Antiquity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Deliyannis, Deborah Mauskopf, ed. Agnelli Ravennatis Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 199. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2006.
• Agnellus of Ravenna. The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna. Translated by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
• Deliyannis, Deborah Mauskopf, ed. Historiography in the Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2003.