Nina Glibetić is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research draws principally from liturgiology, medieval history, ritual studies, and Byzantine and Slavic studies. She has received several fellowships, including at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Dumbarton Oaks, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music from 2013-14. She currently has an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship to work at the University of Regensburg.
Professor Glibetić has published on a variety of topics, such as 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 coming to Notre Dame, she was an assistant professor in liturgical studies at the Catholic University of America. Glibetić is also a member of an international research team supported by the Austrian Science Fund and dedicated to studying the Glagolitic manuscripts discovered at St Catherine’s Monastery on Mt Sinai in 1975. In 2021, Prof. Glibetić was appointed by Pope Francis as consultor to the Dicastery of Oriental Churches, Vatican City. In prior positions, she has taught courses on Liturgy and Culture, Liturgical Methodologies: From Baumstark to Bell, Liturgy and the Female Body, Liturgical History, and Sacred Space and Identity in Jerusalem.