Nataliia Sinkevych

Nataliia Sinkevych

Nataliia Sinkevych

Nataliia Sinkevych (Shklar Fellow, Fall 2010), having completed her Kandydat nauk in history at the Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, now heads the Historical Sources Publications Department of the Historic and Cultural Preserve of the Kyiv Caves Monastery. Her research topic is “Sylvester Kossov’s ‘Paterikon’: Emergence, Contents, Ideology, and History of Existence.” Her research is concerned with how the Kyiv Caves Paterik, historical chronicles, and hagiographical sources were used by Sylvester Kossov in his Paterikon (1635). Sinkevych will pay special attention to the values and aims of the author and his intellectual circle, the worldview of the potential readers of the text, and the Paterikon’s influence on the further development of the Uniate and Orthodox traditions. Sinkevych is author of numerous articles and a monograph entitled Laudare, praedicare, benedicere: The Dominican Order in Volhynia from the End of the Sixteenth to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Centuries (Kyiv, 2009).