Vasileios Marinis
Assistant professor of Christian art and architecture
Professor Marinis has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Aidan Kavanagh Prize for Outstanding Scholarship at Yale, a Junior Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., the S.C. and P.C. Coleman Senior Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has published on a variety of topics ranging from early Christian tunics decorated with New Testament scenes to medieval tombs and Byzantine transvestite nuns. His monograph on the interchange of architecture and ritual in the medieval churches of Constantinople is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Before coming to Yale he was the first holder of the Kallinikeion Chair of Byzantine Art at Queens College, CUNY. B.A., University of Athens; D.E.A., Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; M.A.R., Yale University; L.M.S., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Updated May 2013