Irina Andreyevna Papkova (Russian: Ирина Андреевна Папкова, now Irina du Quenoy), is a scholar of religion and international relations, currently a Research Fellow of Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs[1] and Vice President and Associate Director of the Synodal School of Liturgical Music.
Papkova is the author of The Orthodox Church in Russian Politics (Oxford University Press, 2011),[3] a critically acclaimed study of state-church relations in post-Soviet Russia,[4][5][6] and numerous scholarly articles in academic journals.
She has been a regular contributor to The Revealer,[7] a gazette of religion and international affairs issues, and is actively involved in the world of Russian Orthodox Church music.
Papkova is a daughter of the Very Reverend André Papkov, a Russian Orthodox Archpriest and retired rector of Chicago's Cathedral of the Holy Protection.
She is a great-great-granddaughter of the Russian-German industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and anti-communist leader Nikolay Fyodorovitch von Ditmar and fifth-generation grandniece of Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden, a Baltic German general in Russian service who initially commanded the Russian armies in the Finnish War of 1808-1809.