Maria V. Mavroudi (born 1967)^[1] is a Greek-born American Byzantinist, historian, and philologist.^[2] She is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.^[3][4]

Mavroudi graduated from Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece; from the University of Thessaloniki with a Philology degree;^[when?] and from Harvard University with a PhD in 1998 Byzantine Studies.^[5] Her doctoral advisor was Ihor Ševčenko.^[6]

She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; and the survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453, along with other various topics.

Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic,^[1] she also understands Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, and speaks Modern Greek, French, and English fluently. She formerly taught at Princeton University.^[7]

• 2004, MacArthur Fellowship^[1]

• Mavroudi, Maria V. (1998). The So-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation and Its Arabic Sources (dissertation). Harvard University.
• Mavroudi, Maria V. (2002). A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources. Volume 36 of Medieval Mediterranean. Brill. ISBN 9789004120792.^[8]
• The occult sciences in Byzantium, Editors Paul Magdalino, Maria V. Mavroudi, La Pomme d'or, 2006, ISBN 978-954-8446-02-0
• the "Oneirocriticon of Achmet" and its Arabic sources, Brill, 2002, ISBN 978-90-04-12079-2
• "Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Ekphrasis of Gardens", Byzantine garden culture, Editors Antony Robert Littlewood, Henry Maguire, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Dumbarton Oaks, 2002, ISBN 978-0-88402-280-0