Maria V. Mavroudi (born 1967)[1] is a Greek-born American Byzantinist, historian, and philologist.
[2] She is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.
and from Harvard University with a PhD in 1998 Byzantine Studies.
[6] She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; and the survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453, along with other various topics.
Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic,[1] she also understands Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, and speaks Modern Greek, French, and English fluently.