Stepan Stepanenko

Stepan Stepanenko
Alma materUniversity of York (MA by Research)
École Pratique des Hautes Études (PhD)
OccupationsPolitical analyst, archaeologist
Known forResearch on medieval Eastern Europe; political analysis of Russia–Ukraine relations
AwardsAlexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship

Stepan Stepanenko is a British political analyst and archaeologist. His academic research has focused on the archaeology of medieval Eastern Europe, particularly the Chernihiv region. He is affiliated with the CNRS and the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) in Mainz, where his work has examined settlement patterns and material culture in the 9th–11th centuries.

Stepanenko has also written on Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian affairs. His analysis has been covered internationally, including in iNews and the Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad. He has also contributed opinion articles to LBC and the Kyiv Post.