- Professor, University of California, Irvine
Roland Betancourt is Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. During 2024-2026, he is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Betancourt is an expert on the art and culture of the Byzantine Empire, and his work also looks at the uses of the medieval past in the modern world. His books include Disneyland and the Rise of Automation (Princeton University Press, 2026) and the award-winning Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020).
Experience
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2024–presentChancellor's Professor, University of California, Irvine
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2020–2024Professor , University of California, Irvine
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2018–2020Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
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2014–2018Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
Education
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2014Yale University, PhD, History of Art
Publications
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2026Disneyland and the Rise of Automation , Princeton University Press
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2024The Secrets We Keep, Getty Research Institute
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2021Performing the Gospels in Byzantium, Cambridge University Press
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2020Byzantine Intersectionality, Princeton University Press
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2018Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium, Cambridge University Press
Grants and Contracts
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2024Andrew W. Mellon Professor
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- National Gallery of Art
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2023Guggenheim Fellow
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2016Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow
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- Institute for Advanced Study
Honours
2023 Guggenheim Fellow; 2024-2026 Andrew W. Mellon Professor, The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts National Gallery of Art; 2016-2017 Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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- Location: Irvine, California, U.S.
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