Iryna Klymenko is a historian of early modern Europe at Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. She has broad interests in interreligious and interethnic practices, history of corporeality, and interdisciplinary methods of historical research. Currently, she is completing her second book project, dedicated to the religious history of food and attire in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The book explores how religious and confessional boundaries could be shaped by seemingly trivial practices such as fasting, eating, and dressing among Protestant, Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, and Jewish communities around 1600. Together with Myron Kapral, she edited Leopoliensis Archiepiscopatus Historia (1614-1700), published in 2023. Additionally, she is currently collaborating with Alexandra Walsham on editing Bodily Practices and the Reformations, a special issue of the Journal Reformation. Iryna Klymenko completed her BA and MA degrees in Kyiv and Munich, and obtained her PhD in History from Ludwig-Maximilian University in 2018. Her doctoral dissertation earned her the Munich-Historicum Prize in 2021. In 2021, she served as a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of History, St. John’s College, Cambridge, and as a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome in 2022. Presently, Iryna Klymenko holds the position of Consolidator Fellow 2023/24 at the Historisches Kolleg, Munich Institute for Advanced Studies.
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