Naomi Pitamber is an art and architectural historian of the Byzantine and Crusader periods. Her research in Mediterranean region has been supported by the Council for Library and Information Resources, the Council for American Overseas Research Centers, the Archaeological Institute of America, the Fulbright Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, and American Council for Learned Societies. Her first book, Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss: The Recreation of Constantinople in the Laskarid and Palaiologan Eras, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. Her on-going co-directed digital humanities project, Salvaging Crete: Preserving the Legacy of the Artist Ioannis Pagomenos, assembled an interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners from several fields to study and document the current architectural conditions of eight late Byzantine / early modern churches in Crete. Dr. Pitamber is currently at work developing a second book project which explores key buildings in the Mediterranean whose medieval phases have been erased or manipulated in service of nationalist cultural heritage projects.