Dorota Zaprzalska

Dorota Zaprzalska is a Ph.D. candidate at the Doctoral School of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), having received her BA and MA in the History of Art from the same university. Her research interests focus on icons, particularly their use and reuse, and her dissertation examines the so-called “composite icons” – icons consisting of two panels that are connected by inserting a smaller icon into a larger one. In her project, Dorota seeks to provide a better understanding of this phenomenon and its internal diversity. Her research has been supported by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture Dissertation Grant (2023), the Summer Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks (2023), and the Anita Cecil O’Donovan Fellowship at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (2022).