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 next book, The Cult of Martyr Euphemia in Byzantium, will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2026. His current research interests include the textual construction of sacred space, monasticism, and medieval hagiography. 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.
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
Expertise:
- Antiquity
- Architecture
- Art/Art History
- Early Christianity
- Eastern Orthodox Churches