KATHERINE L.

YOUNGER
CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION
PhD, Russian and East European History, Yale University, expected May 2017
Dissertation title: Confessional Diplomacy: 19th-Century European Politics and the
Greek Catholic Church.
Dissertation committee: Timothy Snyder (advisor), Paul Bushkovitch.
Oral exam fields: Modern Eastern Europe, Modern Russia, Early Modern Eastern
Europe, Catholicism since the Reformation (exams passed with distinction)
MPhil in History, Yale University, December 2013
MA in History, Yale University, May 2012
AB magna cum laude in Government, Harvard University, June 2009

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Coordinator, Ukraine in European Dialogue, Institut fr die Wissenschaften vom
Menschen/Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria, 2016-present.
Freelance Editor and Translator (from Russian and Ukrainian to English), 2015-present.
Associate Curator, The School of Abducted Europe, The School of Kyiv Kyiv Biennial,
2015.
Project/Research Associate, United Europe-Divided History, Institut fr die Wissenschaften
vom Menschen/Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria, 2014-2015.
Distance Learning Coordinator and Assistant to the Director, Institute of Ecumenical Studies,
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine, 2009-2010.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Fellow, Yale University
History of Eastern Europe since 1914
History of Eastern Europe to 1914
Lecturer, Ukrainian Catholic University
English Language

Spring 2013
Fall 2012

Fall 2009

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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

2013-2016

External/Associate Fellow, Doktoratskolleg Galizien, University of Vienna

2014

Junior Visiting Fellow, Institut fr die Wissenschaften vom

Menschen/Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna
Residence Grant, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
Yale Graduate Student Association Conference Travel Fellowship

2013-2014

Research and Travel Award in International History and Security (Smith

Richardson Foundation), Yale International Security Studies
Advanced Research Fellowship, ACTR Title VIII, Russia and Ukraine
Dissertation Research Grant, Yale MacMillan Center

2013

Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Student Research Grant, Yale Program

for the Study of Antisemitism
Summer Language Institute Fellowship, Yale Graduate School

2012

Friends of ISS Research Award, Yale International Security Studies

PRESENTATIONS
Seminars/Lectures
Constructing Slavic Europe: Varieties of Pan-Slavism and the Idea of Europe. Lecture at the
School of Kyiv Kyiv Biennial, September 2015.
Decentering Russia: The Catholic Pan-Slavic Idea and the Greek Catholic Church.
Doktoratskolleg Galizien Seminar, University of Vienna, November 2014.
th
19 -Century European Encounters with Greek Catholicism. Institut fr die Wissenschaften
vom Menschen/Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) Fellows Seminar, April 2014.
Cities of God: 19th-Century European Encounters with Greek Catholicism. Center for
Urban History Guest Seminar, Lviv, Ukraine, February 2014.
The Greek Catholic Church in Its International Context. Ukrainian Catholic University
Open Academic Seminar, Lviv, Ukraine, February 2014.
Conferences
Reframing Catholic Slavdom: The Role of Cyril & Methodius in 19th Century Vatican
Politics. Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies - International
Association for the Humanities (ASEEES-MAG) Summer Convention, June 2016.
From Chem to Hnylychky: Confessional and Political Loyalties and the Greek Catholic
Church. International Conference Galizien in Bewegung/Galicia in Motion,
University of Vienna/Wien Museum, May 2015.
Contested Conversion: The Hnylychky Affair and the Politics of Religion in 19th Century
Eastern Europe. British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
(BASEES) Annual Conference, April 2014.

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A Sober Vision of Modernity: Ruthenian Approaches to Temperance in 19th Century

Galicia. UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) Postgraduate
Conference, February 2014.
At the Edge of Catholic Europe: The Stolen Soul in 19th Century Galicia. Northwestern
University Religious Studies Graduate Student Conference, October 2012.
PUBLICATIONS
Conference Proceedings
From Chem to Hnylychky: Confessional and Political Loyalties and the Greek Catholic
Church, 1863-1882. In Magdalena Baran-Szoltys, Elizabeth Janik and Nino Gude,
eds., Galizien in Bewegung (V&R unipress, forthcoming).
Online Publications
A church caught between? Eurozine, February 2016.
Edited Works
Timothy Snyder and Katherine Younger, eds., The Balkans as Europe, 1821-1918 (University
of Rochester press, forthcoming).
Translations (selected)
Markian Kamysh/Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, Chernobyl should have been preserved as a
cultural object: A conversation with Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi. From Ukrainian.
Eurozine, April 2016.
Olena Styazhkina, A Country, A War, and Love: Excerpts from the Donetsk Diary. From
Russian. Krytyka, April 2015.
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
Russian, Ukrainian (proficient reading and writing, advanced speaking)
Polish, German (proficient reading, functional writing and speaking)
French, Italian (proficient reading, basic writing and speaking)
Belarusian, Bulgarian, Latin (functional reading)