Welcome to KFG Fellow Nadieszda Kizenko
16.05.2023
We are glad to welcome Senior Fellow Prof. Dr. Nadieszda Kizenko as a senior fellow at the KFG.
Nadieszda Kizenko is a professor of history at the University of Albany, where she researches and teaches Russian history, with a focus on religion and culture. She explores the history of Orthodox Christianity, saints’ lives as a historical source, lived religion, political liturgy, women’s written confessions, and depictions of religion in film. Her first book, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People (Penn State University Press, 2000) examined the cult of a charismatic priest whose cult spanned the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her history of confession in Russia spanning four centuries, Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire, was published with Oxford University Press in 2021. At the KFG, she researches on The Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine: Language and Liturgy as Universal or Particularistic Choices.
