Graduate Student, Art and Archaeology
Dumbarton Oaks, Byzantine Studies
Thesis Title: Transformed Architecture for a Reformed Monastic Ritual: Architecture, Liturgy, and Patronage of the Late-Byzantine Narthexes (litai) on Mount Athos
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Slobodan Ćurčić
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About
Nebojša Stanković is a PhD Candidate in the fields of Early Christian, Byzantine, and Medieval art and architecture at Princeton University. His main interests are Byzantine and Medieval architecture and monumental art in relation to liturgy and ritual, as well as monastic architecture. His dissertation – “Transformed Architecture for a Reformed Monastic Ritual: Late-Byzantine Narthexes (litai) on Mount Athos” – examines the relationship between monastic rites performed in the narthex and patronage, on one side, and architectural form and functional organization of this part of the church, on the other. He is also interested in the romantic and idealistic in modern architecture.
His contributions include “Middle- and Late-Byzantine Monastic Ossuaries: Architecture, Liturgical Function, and Meaning,” in Thirty-Second Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, November 10-12, 2006: Abstracts (Saint Louis MO, 2006): 12-13, several entries for the Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Volume 3: Constantinople (Athens, Greece, 2008), “A Shift in Athonite Architecture: The Narthex of Hilandar’s Katholikon,” in Thirty-Sixth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, 8-10 October 2010: Abstracts (Philadelphia PA, 2010): pp. 40-41, and “Milutin Borisavljević and His Scientific Aesthetics of Architecture,” in Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies 22/2 (2008; published 2011): 133–47.
Nebojša has taught at the University of Niš (Serbia) and Princeton University and has taken part in several archaeological projects in Serbia, Greece, and Turkey. He holds an M.Arch. from the University of Belgrade - School of Architecture (Serbia), a post-graduate degree in Architectural Preservation from the University of Bologna (Italy), and an M.A. (Art History and Archaeology) from Princeton University. In 2011-2012, he is a Junior Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Harvard University), Washington DC.
