PD Dr. Iryna Klymenko  

Iryna Klymenko is a historian and Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Head of the Research Centre Ukraine at the Max Weber Foundation. Her research examines the entangled histories of Eastern and Western Europe in the early modern era.

She has held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Historisches Kolleg in Munich, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her award-winning first book explores the intellectual history of societal change from the late Middle Ages to the beginnings of modernity. She has recently completed a second monograph on the religious significance of food and clothing in the early modern period, for which she received the Max Weber Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.