August 13, 2024
Yale Divinity School Dean Greg Sterling today sent the following announcement to the YDS campus community.
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With the appointment of the two new liturgical studies professors, our faculty hiring is complete for the soon-to-begin 2024-25 academic year. Here is a brief introduction (or re-introduction) to the four wonderful scholars and teachers who are joining the YDS faculty.
As previously announced by Martin Jean, Nina Glibetić and Gabriel Radle are coming as Assistant Professors of Liturgical Studies at YDS and the Institute of Sacred Music. Both are joining us from the Department of Theology at Notre Dame and will spend their initial year on fellowships in Germany before beginning to offer classes here in the Fall of 2025.
Nina Glibetić pursues research drawing from liturgiology, medieval history, ritual studies, and Byzantine and Slavic studies. Professor Glibetić has published on topics including the liturgy of early Slavs, the development of eucharistic practices in Byzantium, religious rituals for women at childbirth and miscarriage, and the impact of liturgy on the formation of national identity. Before her Notre Dame appointment, Professor Glibetić was an assistant professor in liturgical studies at the Catholic University of America. She has received several fellowships, including at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the ISM (2013-14). She currently has an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship at the University of Regensburg. She is also a member of an international research team supported by the Austrian Science Fund studying the Glagolitic manuscripts discovered at St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mt. Sinai in 1975. In 2021, Professor Glibetić was appointed by Pope Francis as consultor to the Dicastery of Eastern Churches, Vatican City.
Gabriel Radle specializes in early and medieval Christian liturgy, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean world. His research contextualizes the historical practice of Christianity through the comparative reading of liturgical manuscripts across traditions and by engaging these sources with visual and material culture, hagiography, homiletic literature, and legal documents, both canonical and civil. His publications include studies of marriage rituals in East and West, including a monograph on late antique and Byzantine weddings (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), prayer books on Sinai, medieval rites of passage for children and adolescents, and the unique medieval religious history of Southern Italy. Professor Radle has lectured internationally and held research fellowships at the ISM, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and, currently, at the University of Regensburg.
Ryan Darr ’19 Ph.D. is joining our faculty as Assistant Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment. In 2023-24, Dr. Darr was a Postdoctoral Associate in Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture at the ISM. From 2019 to 2022, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Philosophy and Religion at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. Among other subjects, he concentrates his research on environmental ethics, multi-species justice, structural injustice, ethical theory, and the history of religious and philosophical ethics. His current book project draws from theology, philosophy, and literature to think ethically about the current extinction crisis, defending an ethical approach to extinction centered on environmental and multi-species justice. He is also developing an ongoing research project on the relationship between individual agency and responsibility and structural justice and injustice, with a particular focus on environmental and climate issues. Professor Darr’s first book, The Best Effect: Theology and the Origins of Consequentialism, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2023.
Ra’anan Boustan, a Judaism scholar from Princeton University, will be with us in 2024-25 as a Presidential Visiting Fellow. Dr. Boustan has been a Research Scholar in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton since 2017. Before that, he was Associate Professor in the Department of History at UCLA. His work explores the dynamic intersections between Judaism and other Mediterranean religious traditions in late antiquity, with a special focus on the impact of Christianization on Jewish culture and society. In addition to publishing numerous articles and edited volumes, Boustan is the author of From Martyr to Mystic (2005) and co-author of The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq (2017). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of two international journals, Jewish Studies Quarterly and Studies in Late Antiquity. Dr. Boustan is the site historian for the Huqoq Excavation Project and collaborates with Dr. Karen Britt on the publication of the mosaic floor in the site’s late fourth-century synagogue.Please join me in welcoming these new colleagues to the YDS faculty.
August 12, 2024