Katherine Younger

Historian

Katherine Younger is a historian of modern Europe, with a particular focus on Ukraine. Her research concentrates on the relationship between religion and power, forms of imperial governance, and practices of international politics. She holds the Peter and Anna Kolchinsky Foundation research fellowship in Central and East European studies at the University of Glasgow and is head of archiving for the Documenting Ukraine program at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna), where she was previously a permanent fellow and co-founder of Documenting Ukraine. She holds an AB in government (Harvard University) and a PhD in history (Yale University). Her current book project looks at the interplay between the Greek Catholic/Uniate Church and European politics from the partitions of Poland to the turn of the 20th century.