The Cyprus Institute

 

Dr Perdiki is an art historian and archaeologist specializing in Byzantine art. After receiving her BA from the University of Crete, she pursued postgraduate studies (MA, École Pratique des Hautes Études – Paris), followed by a PhD in Byzantine art history at the University of Aix-Marseille.

 

She conducted postdoctoral research at the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, having received a DIDAKTOR Postdoctoral Researcher grant from the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) of Cyprus for the SpaMaP Cy project (Post-Doc/0916/0251, 2018–2022). In 2019, she was awarded an individual “One-Month Research Award” in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. She also participated in the project Digitising the Museums of Cyprus, hosted by the Department of Antiquities and funded by the EEA and Norway Grants (2023–2024). From 2018 to 2020, she took part in the Getty Foundation-sponsored seminar Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval & Early Modern Cities, coordinated by N. Bakirtzis (The Cyprus Institute) and D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

 

Her main research interests lie in interdisciplinary approaches that employ cutting-edge technologies. By integrating archaeological, art-historical, textual, epigraphic, landscape, and anthropological evidence, her work focuses on local saint cults, pilgrimage, sacred landscapes, and related art. Currently, through the project MapLoS Cy – Mapping the Cult of Local Saints in Cyprus: Sites and Images (11th–15th century), she explores in detail the cult of Cypriot saints, focusing on sacred sites and monuments dedicated to them, as well as their preserved images in painted churches across Cyprus from the 11th to the 15th century.