M.A. Kacper Lepionka
Biography
Graduate in History and Indian Studies from the University of Warsaw. Through the Erasmus+ programme, studied at Università Ca’ Foscari Venice, Freie Universität Berlin, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Recipient of scholarships from the French government (Séjours Scientifiques de Haut Niveau) and the De Brzezie Lanckoronski Foundation. His research focuses on the history and literature of ancient Greece, especially the Archaic period, and ancient South Asia, from the beginnings of Buddhism to the Gupta Empire.
Kacper Lepionka has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Junior Research Award 2026–2027. During the upcoming academic year, he will conduct research for 10 months at Stanford University in the United States. His research project is connected with his doctoral dissertation devoted to the analysis of the “intended audience” of the Homeric Poems and the Indian Mahabharata.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4423-1981
Title of the doctoral dissertation
The problem of the historicity of the presented world in the Homeric poems and the great Sanskrit epics.
- Dissertation supervisor: Professor Marek Węcowski (Faculty of History, University of Warsaw)
- Assistant dissertation supervisor: DPhil Monika Nowakowska (Faculty of Asian and African Cultures, University of Warsaw)
