The Institute's founder is scholar and archaeologist, Thomas Whittemore.
Thomas Whittemore (1871–1950) was a scholar, archaeologist and the founder of the Byzantine Institute of America.
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In 1948, Thomas Whittemore and Paul A. Underwood, from the Byzantine Institute of America and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, sponsored a programme of restoration.
In 1948, he and Paul A. Underwood, from the Byzantine Institute of America and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, sponsored a programme for restoration of the Chora Church in Istanbul.