Education
B.A., University of Athens
D.E.A. Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
M.A.R. Yale University
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Biography
Professor Marinis is the author of two monographs, both published by Cambridge University Press: Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople, Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries (2014), and Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium: The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art (2017). His current research interests include the textual construction of sacred space and the cult of the martyr Euphemia in Byzantium. Marinis has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Aidan Kavanagh Prize for Outstanding Scholarship at Yale, a 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. In 2015–2017 he was a Humboldt fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
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Books
(with Amy Papalexandrou and Jordan Pickett) Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honor of Robert G. Ousterhout (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021).
Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium: The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017).
Architecture and Liturgy in the Churches of Constantinople (Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries) (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Byzantium: Essays in Honor of Angela Constantinides Hero [= Journal of Modern Hellenism 27-28 (2009-2010)], editor
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