Kateryna Dysa

Kateryna Dysa (born 1977 in Moscow) is a historian, lecturer at the Department of History of the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, director of the Jerzy Giedroyć Centre for Polish and European Studies operating at this university. She was a fellow at Harvard University, Stanford University and the Institut d’études avancées in Paris, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Basel. She is currently conducting research at the Department of History at All Souls College, Oxford University, on a British Academy scholarship. She is the author of the book “Ukrainian Witchcraft Trials: Volhynia, Podolia and Ruthenia, 17th-18th Centuries” (Budapest, New York, 2020) and the author of numerous articles on the history of witchcraft, sexuality and medicine in early modern Ukraine. She is currently working on a project on the construction of the image of Kyiv in travel literature from the 18th to the early 20th century.