Our team.

Manolis Ulbricht

Dr. Manolis Ulbricht is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Core Fellow at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His interdisciplinary research explores Christian–Muslim relations and Eastern Christianity, bridging Greek and Arabic philology, Byzantine Orthodoxy, and Muslim theology. His work focuses on Qur’anic translations into Greek, Latin, and Syriac; paleography and codicology; digital humanities; and Byzantine hymnology in dialogue with Eastern Mediterranean music theory. Manolis received his award-winning Ph.D. in Byzantine Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin and conducted extensive research in Syria and Lebanon for two years. He has held fellowships from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung), and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at universities in Berlin, Athens, Nantes, Copenhagen, Munich, Göttingen, and in the United States. Recent appointments include the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies within the project Late Antique and Early Islamic Studies (University of Göttingen, Germany); the Medieval Institute through his project Documenta Coranica Byzantina: Byzantino-Islamica in the Age of Digital Humanities (University of Notre Dame, Indiana); and the Institute of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the Institutum Judaicum (University of Tübingen, Germany). Visit Manolis Ulbricht’s Academia.edu page here.