Katherine Younger

Short Biography

Katherine Younger, PhD, is an IWM Permanent Fellow and Research Director of our Ukraine in European Dialogue program. 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.

Both her involvement in Ukraine in European Dialogue and her research are predicated on an awareness that integrating Ukraine into intellectual and public discourse is vital to understanding Europe and the broader world, both historically and in the present.

Currently, her research concentrates on practices of international politics, forms of imperial governance, and the relationship between religion and power in the long 19^th century. Her current book project, based on her dissertation, looks at the role of the Greek Catholic/Uniate Church in European politics from the Partitions of Poland to the turn of the 20^th century.

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:
2016-2018 Research Associate, Ukraine in European Dialogue
2014-2015 Research Associate, United Europe – Divided History
2014 Junior Visiting Fellow