Ivan Almes
Visit Dates: 2025-26
Email:
ialmes@nd.edu
Associate Professor of History
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
- Cultural and religious history of early modern Eastern and Central Europe;
- Early modern monasticism;
- History of reading; and
- History of sainthood
Ivan Almes is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Ukrainian Catholic University, where he also serves as Director of the Ihor Skochylias Center for Religious Culture and Coordinator of the research program Kyivan Christianity. He is the editor-in-chief of the Kyivan Christianity publishing series, issued by UCU Press.
Almes has co-organized several international scholar conferences in Rome: in 2021 on the Zamość Sobor; in 2023 on St Josaphat Kuntsevych; and in 2024 on Kyivan Metropolitan Yosyf Veliamyn Rutsky. His most recent volume is "In Search of Centres: Early Modern Kyivan Christianities" (co-edited with Svitlana Potapenko, Oksana Prokopyuk, Vitalii Tkachuk, and Valerii Zema; Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2026).
At the University of Notre Dame, Almes researches the principal themes, perspectives, and challenges of modern historiography concerning the early modern religious history of Eastern and Central Europe.