Kateryna Kovalchuk’s academic path took her from Classical Philology to the fields of Medieval and Byzantine Studies. Following her passion for the Medieval World, she undertook studies for degree programmes and conducted research in some of the world’s leading universities and research centres. She was generously supported by a number of prestigious scholarship awards (including the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholarship for the University of Oxford, A. Onassis scholarship, Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University Fellowship, etc).

Preceded by MA and MPhil degrees in Medieval Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, she completed her doctorate at the Catholic University of Leuven and was awarded a PhD degree in Greek and Latin languages and literatures. Her research focuses on Byzantine narratives of church and monastery foundations, hagiography, and animal sacrifice as a Chrisianized ritual.