IWM Permanent Fellow (2022-2025)
Short Biography
Katherine Younger, PhD, was an IWM Permanent Fellow and co-head of our Ukraine in European Dialogue and Documenting Ukraine programs. She is a historian of modern Europe, with a particular focus on Ukraine and Eastern Europe more broadly. She received her PhD from Yale University in 2018. At the IWM, her research concentrated on practices of international politics, forms of imperial governance, and the relationship between religion and power in the long 19th century. She also led the development of the Documenting Ukraine grant program and digital archive.
Areas of Expertise:
- Politics of religion, church-state relations, and the relationship between religion and power
- Intellectual networks and the circulation of ideas
- The European state system and forms of foreign policy
- Habsburg and Russian imperial ideology and governance
- Concepts of the Slavic world and their practical manifestations
Publications:
The Universe Behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs and Contemplations of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident by Myroslav Marynovych (edited by Katherine Younger). Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2021.
The Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018 (co-edited with Timothy Snyder)
“From Chełm to Hnylychky: Confessional and Political Loyalties and the Greek Catholic Church, 1863-1882.” In Galizien in Bewegung: Wahrnehmungen - Begegnungen – Verflechtungen, edited by Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Olena Dvoretska, Nino Gude, and Elisabeth Janik-Freis. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2017.
“The Changing Dilemmas of Ukrainian Orthodoxy.” Eurozine, October 2019.
“A church caught between?” Eurozine, February 2016. (Ukrainian translation published in Ukraina Moderna, March 2016.)
Former Affiliations at the IWM:
2018-2022 Research Director, Ukraine in European Dialogue
2016-2018 Research Associate, Ukraine in European Dialogue
2014-2015 Research Associate, United Europe – Divided History
2014 Junior Visiting Fellow
Research Whilst at IWM
Ukraine in European Dialogue
There is an ongoing need for sustained dialogue between Ukrainian scholars, intellectuals and activists and their counterparts in Europe and North America. The Ukraine in European Dialogue research program seeks to contribute to this exchange and Dr. Younger is responsible for this program's implementation.
Documenting Ukraine
This project, set up in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, seeks to facilitate this work by supporting journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals, and archivists based in Ukraine as they work on documentation projects that establish and preserve a factual record, through reporting, gathering published source material, or collecting oral testimony; or bring meaning to events through artistic interpretation and intellectual reflection. Dr. Younger leads this project together with IWM Permanent Fellow Timothy Snyder.
