 Nikola Pantić is a Permanent Fellow at the Center for Religious Studies, CEU, and a postdoc researcher and lecturer at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna. He studies religious establishments and charismatic authority in early modern Ottoman Sunnism, and focuses on the history of the beliefs in grace, wonder-workers, cults of saints, and thaumaturgical rituals in Islam before modernity. |
 Kateryna Kovalchuk has graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv State University with a degree in Classics. Having completed her MA and MPhil in Medieval Studied at CEU, she then earned her doctorate in Greek and Latin: Language and Literature from KULeuven. She was a recipient of a number of fellowships at top institutions for Byzantine research, including the University of Oxford, Dumbarton Oaks, NRF in Athens with Onassis scholarship. She has written about Animal Sacrifice in Christianity, the Festival of Encaenia and its hagiographical expression in Jerusalem and Constantinople, the image of Justinian in Byzantium. At the moment, her research focuses on Byzantine legends of church and monastery foundation and cultural memory. |