Slobodan Ćurčić
Slobodan Ćurčić (Cyrillic Слободан Ћурчић; Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 19 December 1940 – Thessaloniki, Greece, 3 December 2017) was an American art historian and Byzantinist. Life. After completing school in Belgrade, Ćurčić first studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he obtained a Bachelor of Architecture in 1964 and a Master of Architecture in 1965. At the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University he received his doctorate in art history in 1975 under Richard Krautheimer with a thesis on the monastery church of Gračanica. From 1971 to 1982 he taught architectural history at  the Department of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1982 until his retirement in 2010 he taught as a professor for Early Christian and Byzantine Art at the Department of Art and Archeology at Princeton University. In addition, he was director of the Hellenic Studies Program at Princeton University from 2006 to 2010. His main area of research was Byzantine architecture, especially the Middle and Late Byzantine Period. In 2010 he presented a summary of his research in the monumental work "Architecture in the Balkans from Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent". From 1997 he was a  member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences, from 2004 an honorary member of the Christian Archaeological Society in Athens. In 2006 he became a member of the "Experts Committee on the Rehabilitation and Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in Kosovo" of the UNESCO for the preservation of cultural property in Kosovo.