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Assistant professor of Christian art and architectureThe Yale Institute of Sacred Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Vasileios Marinis as assistant professor of Christian art and architecture at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School. His first three-year term will begin July 1, 2009. A native of Greece, Dr. Marinis completed his undergraduate training at the University of Athens in the history of art and architecture. He then continued at the Sorbonne where he received the D.E.A. in 1998. Following this, he received the Master of Arts in Religion from the ISM and YDS in 2003, where he concentrated principally in Religion and the Arts and Liturgical Studies. His Ph.D. was earned from the University of Illinois in 2006 where his doctoral advisor was Robert Ousterhout. He has taught on the faculty of Queens College (CUNY) since 2006 where he is currently Kallinikeion Assistant Professor of Byzantine Art. He has held fellowships at numerous prestigious institutions, such as Dumbarton Oaks, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Coleman Senior Fellowship) and the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies (University of Toronto) where he earned the L.M.S. His publications range on a variety of topics from early Christian tunics decorated with New Testament scenes to medieval tombs and Byzantine transvestite nuns. He is currently preparing a monograph on the interaction of architecture and ritual in the medieval churches of Constantinople. The personal statement Vasili wrote back in 2001 when he applied for the Master of Arts in Religion program here gives an excellent introduction to his work as a scholar and teacher: “The experience that profoundly influenced my thinking and affected later decisions in my life is the period of time that I spent at the Byzantine monastery of Hosios Loukas, which is situated near my hometown. I enjoyed the peacefulness of the place, the discipline of the monks, and, most of all, their theological discussions on every matter of faith, from liturgics and history of the church to ethics and dogma. Even though I was a teenager and did not have a good perception of matters, the exposure to modern theological thinking – all the fathers had university degrees in theology – gave me a broad background, which proved to be extremely useful in my later studies. Also, their way of life taught me the practical and living aspect of theology.”
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