About
Nataliia Sinkevych studied history and graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine) in 2004. In 2007, she received her PhD at the same university with her work on »The Volyn Dominican monasteries in the late 16th and early 19th centuries: the institutional principles, social environment and main directions of activity.« Between 2007 and 2014 she was a Research Fellow at the National Historical and Cultural Museum of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. In 2010, she did an internship at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute of the Harvard University (USA). In 2017, Sinkevych worked for the research project »Funding of research to clarify the provenance of an original Russian-language document issued by Tsar Peter I in 1709« at the University of Tübingen. From January 2016 to December 2018 she worked at the German Historical Institute Moscow on the project »The Eastern Slavs in search of supra-regional identities (from the end of the 15th to the middle of the 18th century) in the context of modern nation-building«. In 2020, she earned a doctoral degree in theology at the Karl Eberhard University of Tübingen. She is an author of four monographs and many articles on the ecclesiastical and cultural history of Ukraine in the premodern era.
Since 2023, Sinkevych is a researcher at the GWZO within the department »Culture and Imagination«.
Work focus
- Early modern history of Ukraine
- Confessional history
- History of historiography and hagiography
Awards
Book Award by the Reformation Research Consortium 2023
Teaching
Between 2021 and 2023, Nataliia Sinkevyh taught courses at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.