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HRE Scholars Directory

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Scholars Listed by Surname:
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A-F:

• Caldwell, Amy R. (California State University, Channel Islands)
Contact: arcaldwell at gmail dot com
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Region: Swiss Confederation
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Religious History
Research Interests: Politics in the Zurich Reformation
Book/Dissertation: Reformation Politics and Religious Persecution: Zürich, Zwingli and the Swiss Brethren 1515-1527


• Camiz, Alessandro (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Contact: alessandro dot camiz at uniroma1 dot it
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: Northern and central Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture, Town planning
Research Interests: Communal age town planning
Dissertation/Book: Town planning in the Commune of Ravenna (X:XIV)
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Phd. tutor: Prof. Enrico Guidoni


• Close, Christopher W. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of History)
Contact: cclose at history dot upenn dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Imperial Court/Institutions, Swabia
Fields: Diplomatic, Intellectual, Political, Religious, and Social
Research Interests: Intercity consultation and negotiation in the urban Reformation in Swabia (1525-1555)
Dissertation/Book: The Negotiated Reformation: Swabian Imperial Cities and Urban Reform (1530-1546)


• Ehresmann, Claudia (Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal)
Contact: clsohst at yahoo dot de
Eras: 1450-1648; 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture
Dissertation/Book: (published under the name Sohst, Claudia) Die Rezeption nordamerikanischer Architektur um 1900 in Deutschland und Österreich. (München 2006)


• Friedrich, Karin (University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (History), Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB154BP, Scotland)
Contact: k dot friedrich at abdn dot ac dot uk
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: East Central Europe, German States
Fields: Cultural, Intellectual, Political, Social History
Research Interests: Early modern Polish-German relations, Prussia and Brandenburg, urban history, festival culture, intellectual networks
Book/Dissertation: The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty 1569-1772. (Cambridge, 2000), published in Polish as Inne Prusy. Prusy Krolewskie i Polska miedzy wolnoscia a wolnosciami (1569-1772). (Poznan, 2005)


• Fuchs, Martina (Department of History, University of Vienna)
Contact: martina dot fuchs at univie dot ac dot at
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: Netherlands, German States
Fields: Political History
Research Interests: Reception of historical persons living in the 16th c. and in the 19th and 20th c.
Book/Dissertation: Karl V. Eine populäre Figur? Zur Rezeption des Kaisers in deutschsprachiger Belletristik. Münster 2002 (Geschichte in der Epoche Karls V. 1).

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• Has-Ellison, John Trygve (University of Texas at Dallas)
Contact: jhasllsn at eaze dot net OR jxh058000 at utdallas dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Imperial Court, Scandinavia
Fields: Social, Cultural, Art History
Research Interests: Nobles of the Empire and the creation of the Central European Modern (after Jonathan Dewald).
Book/Dissertation: True Art is Always an Aristocratic Matter: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Munich 1890-1914.


• Helfferich, Tryntje (Ohio State University, Lima)
Contact: thelff at gmail dot com
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, France
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Religious, Military, Gender History
Research Interests: Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Reformation
Dissertation: 'The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman': Faith, Politics, and the Thirty Years War (2003)
Book: A Documentary History of the Thirty Years War


• Hummer, Hans (Wayne State University)
Contact: hummer at wayne dot edu
Eras: 300-1100
Geographic Regions: Early medieval Europe, continental, mostly France and Germany.
Fields: Social and Political History
Research Interests: Society and Politics of Early Medieval Europe
Book: Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm 600-1000 (Cambridge, 2005)


• Jestice, Phyllis (History Department, U. of Southern Mississippi)
Contact: phyllis.jestice at usm dot edu
Eras: 800-1200
Geographic Regions: Germany (back in the time before there were really separate German states!), Italy, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Religious, Intellectual, Political, Gender
Research Interests: Monastic reform, Ottonian regents
Book: Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1997)


• Johnson, Christine R. (Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis)
Contact: cjohns at wustl dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States in relation to the other areas/institutions
Fields: Political, Cultural, Religious History
Research Interests: The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, 1440-1556
Book Manuscript: Renaissance Encounters: Germany and the Overseas Expansion of Europe


• von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dedo (Curator, The Corning Museum of Glass)
Contact: krosigkdv at cmog dot org
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy, France
Fields: Art (Decorative Arts)
Research Interests: Decorative Arts, Glass


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: Edited together with Eckhard Keßler: Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vols, 1034 pp.


• Lemmond, Jon (University of California Santa Barbara)
Contact: jlemmond at umail dot ucsb dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Nuremberg, Reichsstadt
Fields: Religious, Gender, Cultural History
Research Interests: Domestic Violence in the 16th c.
Dissertation: "Without Just Cause": the Social and Cultural Constructions of Domestic Abuse in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg
Graduate Advisors/Mentors: Abraham Friesen and Sears McGee


• Lifschitz, Avi (University College London, History Department)
Contact: avi_lif at yahoo dot com
Era: 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Swiss Confederation
Fields: Intellectual
Research Interests: Theories of language and mind, debates on the origin of language, and intellectual transfer across French- and German-speaking Europe
Dissertation: Debating Language: Academic Discourse and Public Controversy at the Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great (Oxford, 2007)

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• Michalopoulos, Dimitris (Historical Institute for Studies on El. Veniselos and his Era, Athens, Greece)
Contact: dmichalo at hotmail dot com
Era: Post 1815
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Political, Religious, Social History
Book/Dissertation: Henry A. Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the problems of peace, 1812-1822. Translated from English into Greek and annotated, Athens: Papazissis, 2003, 614 pp.


• Morris, Stephen
Contact: smmorris58 at yahoo dot com
Era: 300-1500 (late antiquity to early modern)
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Religious, Social, and Gender Studies
Research Interests: Comparison of tolerance for various sexual behaviors/relationships (ex. divorce, remarriage, same-sex relationships)
Book/Dissertation: Blessings Begrudgingly Bestowed: Eastern Christian Pastoral Response to Sexuality


• Ogilvie, Sheilagh (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, U. K.)
Contact: sco2 at econ dot cam dot ac dot uk
Eras: 1200-1450, 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Economic, Demographic, Social
Research Interests: Economic history of Germany and the Czech Lands, 1500-1800; History of demography, household structure, the family and gender in early modern Central and Eastern Europe; Social institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (serfdom, guilds, village communities, merchant associations)
Book: A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Riches, Daniel (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Contact: dlriches at uchicago dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Scandinavia
Fields: Cultural, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Military, Political, Religious
Research Interests: Interaction of diplomatic and political history with intellectual, cultural, and religious forces
Dissertation: The Culture of Diplomacy in Brandenburg-Swedish Relations, 1575-1697
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Constantin Fasolt

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• Sposato, Peter W. (University of Rochester)
Contact: vieri14 at yahoo dot com
Era: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Italy, England, Spain, Mediterranean
Fields: Political, Military, Diplomatic, Religious
Research Interests: Norman diaspora (Sicily, Antioch), crusades, medieval government in Norman Sicily, aristocracy in the Regno, diplomatic history between Norman Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Richard Kaeuper


• Tanaka, Julie (University of California, Berkeley; History Department)
Contact: jktanaka at berkeley dot edu
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450, 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Byzantine Empire, Greece, Rome
Fields: Intellectual, Cultural, Political History
Research Interests: Humanism, Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Book/Dissertation: Germania fiat: The Christian Roman Imperial Tradition and the Conceptualization of Identities-- Greeks, Italians, and Germans.
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Thomas, A. Brady, Jr.


• Thomas, Andrew L. (Purdue University)
Contact: thomasal at purdue dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Monarchy, Imperial Court
Fields: Intellectual, Religious, Court culture
Research Interests:
Dissertation: A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in Bavaria and the Palatinate, 1550-1650
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Charles Ingrao


• Thomson, Erik (Society of Fellows, University of Chicago)
Contact: ethomson at uchicago dot edu
Era: 1500-1750
Geographic Regions: German States, France, Netherlands, Sweden & Baltic
Fields: Political, Cultural, Intellectual, Diplomatic, Economic
Research Interests: Commerce and Statecraft, 16th-18th centuries
Dissertation: Chancellor Oxenstierna, Cardinal Richelieu and Commerce: The problems and possibilities of governance in early-seventeenth century France and Sweden. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2004).


• Wheatcroft, Andrew (Director, Centre for Publishing Studies, University of Stirling)
Contact: ajmw1 at stir dot ac dot uk
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Military, Cultural, Art
Research Interests: Relationship between HRE and the East
Book: INFIDELS: a history of the conflict between Christendom and Islam. Random House Inc and Penguin


• Williams, Megan (Columbia University)
Contact: MKW2001 at COLUMBIA dot EDU
Era: 1440-1740
Geographic Regions: Habsburg Territories, East Central Europe, Italy, German States, Ottoman Empire
Fields: Diplomacy
Research Interests: I am currently researching a dissertation on diplomatic networks and diplomatic praxis in sixteenth-century Central and East Central Europe.


• Wright, Diana Gilliland (Independent Scholar)
Contact: DianaGWright at comcast dot net
Era: 15th Century
Geographic Regions: Venetian-Greek-Ottoman overlap
Research Interests: Venetian occupation of the Morea, Venetian-Ottoman diplomatics, HRE allegiances in the 4th Crusade
Forthcoming Book: The Venetian Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio, Vol. 1: Nauplion 1479-1483; Vol. 2, Crete, 1500-1502.

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Scholars Listed by Historical Era of Interest:
Pre 800, 800-1200, 1200-1450, 1450-1648, 1648-1815, Post 1815

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Pre 800 A.D.

• Hummer, Hans (Wayne State University)
Contact: hummer at wayne dot edu
Eras: 300-1100
Geographic Regions: Early medieval Europe, continental, mostly France and Germany.
Fields: Social and Political History
Research Interests: Society and Politics of Early Medieval Europe
Book: Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm 600-1000 (Cambridge, 2005)


• Morris, Stephen
Contact: smmorris58 at yahoo dot com
Era: 300-1500 (late antiquity to early modern)
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Religious, Social, and Gender Studies
Research Interests: Comparison of tolerance for various sexual behaviors/relationships (ex. divorce, remarriage, same-sex relationships)
Book/Dissertation: Blessings Begrudgingly Bestowed: Eastern Christian Pastoral Response to Sexuality

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800-1200 A.D.

• Camiz, Alessandro (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Contact: alessandro dot camiz at uniroma1 dot it
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: Northern and central Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture, Town planning
Research Interests: Communal age town planning
Dissertation/Book: Town planning in the Commune of Ravenna (X:XIV)
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Phd. tutor: Prof. Enrico Guidoni


• Hummer, Hans (Wayne State University)
Contact: hummer at wayne dot edu
Eras: 300-1100
Geographic Regions: Early medieval Europe, continental, mostly France and Germany.
Fields: Social and Political History
Research Interests: Society and Politics of Early Medieval Europe
Book: Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm 600-1000 (Cambridge, 2005)


• Jestice, Phyllis (History Department, U. of Southern Mississippi)
Contact: phyllis.jestice at usm dot edu
Eras: 800-1200
Geographic Regions: Germany (back in the time before there were really separate German states!), Italy, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Religious, Intellectual, Political, Gender
Research Interests: Monastic reform, Ottonian regents
Book: Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1997)


• Morris, Stephen
Contact: smmorris58 at yahoo dot com
Era: 300-1500 (late antiquity to early modern)
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Religious, Social, and Gender Studies
Research Interests: Comparison of tolerance for various sexual behaviors/relationships (ex. divorce, remarriage, same-sex relationships)
Book/Dissertation: Blessings Begrudgingly Bestowed: Eastern Christian Pastoral Response to Sexuality


• Sposato, Peter W. (University of Rochester)
Contact: vieri14 at yahoo dot com
Era: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Italy, England, Spain, Mediterranean
Fields: Political, Military, Diplomatic, Religious
Research Interests: Norman diaspora (Sicily, Antioch), crusades, medieval government in Norman Sicily, aristocracy in the Regno, diplomatic history between Norman Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Richard Kaeuper


• Tanaka, Julie (University of California, Berkeley; History Department)
Contact: jktanaka at berkeley dot edu
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450, 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Byzantine Empire, Greece, Rome
Fields: Intellectual, Cultural, Political History
Research Interests: Humanism, Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Book/Dissertation: Germania fiat: The Christian Roman Imperial Tradition and the Conceptualization of Identities-- Greeks, Italians, and Germans.
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Thomas, A. Brady, Jr.

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1200-1450 A.D.

• Camiz, Alessandro (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Contact: alessandro dot camiz at uniroma1 dot it
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: Northern and central Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture, Town planning
Research Interests: Communal age town planning
Dissertation/Book: Town planning in the Commune of Ravenna (X:XIV)
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Phd. tutor: Prof. Enrico Guidoni


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: Edited together with Eckhard Keßler: Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vol.s, 1034 pp.


• Morris, Stephen
Contact: smmorris58 at yahoo dot com
Era: 300-1500 (late antiquity to early modern)
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Religious, Social, and Gender Studies
Research Interests: Comparison of tolerance for various sexual behaviors/relationships (ex. divorce, remarriage, same-sex relationships)
Book/Dissertation: Blessings Begrudgingly Bestowed: Eastern Christian Pastoral Response to Sexuality


• Ogilvie, Sheilagh (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, U. K.)
Contact: sco2 at econ dot cam dot ac dot uk
Era: 1200-1450, 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Economic, Demographic, Social
Research Interests: Economic history of Germany and the Czech Lands, 1500-1800; History of demography, household structure, the family and gender in early modern Central and Eastern Europe; Social institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (serfdom, guilds, village communities, merchant associations)
Book: A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)


• Sposato, Peter W. (University of Rochester)
Contact: vieri14 at yahoo dot com
Era: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Italy, England, Spain, Mediterranean
Fields: Political, Military, Diplomatic, Religious
Research Interests: Norman diaspora (Sicily, Antioch), crusades, medieval government in Norman Sicily, aristocracy in the Regno, diplomatic history between Norman Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Richard Kaeuper


• Tanaka, Julie (University of California, Berkeley; History Department)
Contact: jktanaka at berkeley dot edu
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450, 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Byzantine Empire, Greece, Rome
Fields: Intellectual, Cultural, Political History
Research Interests: Humanism, Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Book/Dissertation: Germania fiat: The Christian Roman Imperial Tradition and the Conceptualization of Identities-- Greeks, Italians, and Germans.
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Thomas, A. Brady, Jr.


• Wright, Diana Gilliland (Independent Scholar)
Contact: DianaGWright at comcast dot net
Era: 15th Century
Geographic Regions: Venetian-Greek-Ottoman overlap
Research Interests: Venetian occupation of the Morea, Venetian-Ottoman diplomatics, HRE allegiances in the 4th Crusade
Forthcoming Book: The Venetian Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio, Vol. 1: Nauplion 1479-1483; Vol. 2, Crete, 1500-1502.

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1450-1648 A.D.

• Caldwell, Amy R. (California State University, Channel Islands)
Contact: arcaldwell at gmail dot com
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Region: Swiss Confederation
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Religious History
Research Interests: Politics in the Zurich Reformation
Book/Dissertation: Reformation Politics and Religious Persecution: Zürich, Zwingli and the Swiss Brethren 1515-1527


• Close, Christopher W. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of History)
Contact: cclose at history dot upenn dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Imperial Court/Institutions, Swabia
Fields: Diplomatic, Intellectual, Political, Religious, and Social
Research Interests: Intercity consultation and negotiation in the urban Reformation in Swabia (1525-1555)
Dissertation/Book: The Negotiated Reformation: Swabian Imperial Cities and Urban Reform (1530-1546)


• Ehresmann, Claudia (Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal)
Contact: clsohst at yahoo dot de
Eras: 1450-1648; 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture
Dissertation/Book: (published under the name Sohst, Claudia) Die Rezeption nordamerikanischer Architektur um 1900 in Deutschland und Österreich. (München 2006)


• Friedrich, Karin (University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (History), Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB154BP, Scotland)
Contact: k dot friedrich at abdn dot ac dot uk
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: East Central Europe, German States
Fields: Cultural, Intellectual, Political, Social History
Research Interests: Early modern Polish-German relations, Prussia and Brandenburg, urban history, festival culture, intellectual networks
Book/Dissertation: The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty 1569-1772. (Cambridge, 2000), published in Polish as Inne Prusy. Prusy Krolewskie i Polska miedzy wolnoscia a wolnosciami (1569-1772). (Poznan, 2005)


• Fuchs, Martina (Department of History, University of Vienna)
Contact: martina dot fuchs at univie dot ac dot at
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: Netherlands, German States
Fields: Political History
Research Interests: Reception of historical persons living in the 16th c. and in the 19th and 20th c.
Book/Dissertation: Karl V. Eine populäre Figur? Zur Rezeption des Kaisers in deutschsprachiger Belletristik. Münster 2002 (Geschichte in der Epoche Karls V. 1).


• Has-Ellison, John Trygve (University of Texas at Dallas)
Contact: jhasllsn at eaze dot net OR jxh058000 at utdallas dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Imperial Court, Scandinavia
Fields: Social, Cultural, Art History
Research Interests: Nobles of the Empire and the creation of the Central European Modern (after Jonathan Dewald).
Book/Dissertation: True Art is Always an Aristocratic Matter: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Munich 1890-1914.


• Helfferich, Tryntje (Ohio State University, Lima)
Contact: thelff at gmail dot com
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, France
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Religious, Military, Gender History
Research Interests: Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Reformation
Dissertation: 'The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman': Faith, Politics, and the Thirty Years War (2003)
Book: A Documentary History of the Thirty Years War


• Johnson, Christine R. (Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis)
Contact: cjohns at wustl dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States in relation to the other areas/institutions
Fields: Political, Cultural, Religious History
Research Interests: The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, 1440-1556
Book Manuscript: Renaissance Encounters: Germany and the Overseas Expansion of Europe


• von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dedo (Curator, The Corning Museum of Glass)
Contact: krosigkdv at cmog dot org
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy, France
Fields: Art (Decorative Arts)
Research Interests: Decorative Arts, Glass


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: Edited together with Eckhard Keßler: Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vol.s, 1034 pp.


• Lemmond, Jon (University of California Santa Barbara)
Contact: jlemmond at umail dot ucsb dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Nuremberg, Reichsstadt
Fields: Religious, Gender, Cultural History
Research Interests: Domestic Violence in the 16th c.
Dissertation: "Without Just Cause": the Social and Cultural Constructions of Domestic Abuse in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg
Graduate Advisors/Mentors: Abraham Friesen and Sears McGee


• Morris, Stephen
Contact: smmorris58 at yahoo dot com
Era: 300-1500 (late antiquity to early modern)
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Religious, Social, and Gender Studies
Research Interests: Comparison of tolerance for various sexual behaviors/relationships (ex. divorce, remarriage, same-sex relationships)
Book/Dissertation: Blessings Begrudgingly Bestowed: Eastern Christian Pastoral Response to Sexuality


• Ogilvie, Sheilagh (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, U. K.)
Contact: sco2 at econ dot cam dot ac dot uk
Era: 1200-1450, 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Economic, Demographic, Social
Research Interests: Economic history of Germany and the Czech Lands, 1500-1800; History of demography, household structure, the family and gender in early modern Central and Eastern Europe; Social institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (serfdom, guilds, village communities, merchant associations)
Book: A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Riches, Daniel (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Contact: dlriches at uchicago dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Scandinavia
Fields: Cultural, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Military, Political, Religious
Research Interests: Interaction of diplomatic and political history with intellectual, cultural, and religious forces
Dissertation: The Culture of Diplomacy in Brandenburg-Swedish Relations, 1575-1697
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Constantin Fasolt


• Tanaka, Julie (University of California, Berkeley; History Department)
Contact: jktanaka at berkeley dot edu
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450, 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Byzantine Empire, Greece, Rome
Fields: Intellectual, Cultural, Political History
Research Interests: Humanism, Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Book/Dissertation: Germania fiat: The Christian Roman Imperial Tradition and the Conceptualization of Identities-- Greeks, Italians, and Germans.
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Thomas, A. Brady, Jr.


• Thomas, Andrew L. (Purdue University)
Contact: thomasal at purdue dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Monarchy, Imperial Court
Fields: Intellectual, Religious, Court culture
Research Interests:
Dissertation: A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in Bavaria and the Palatinate, 1550-1650
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Charles Ingrao


• Thomson, Erik (Society of Fellows, University of Chicago)
Contact: ethomson at uchicago dot edu
Era: 1500-1750
Geographic Regions: German States, France, Netherlands, Sweden & Baltic
Fields: Political, Cultural, Intellectual, Diplomatic, Economic.
Research Interests: Commerce and Statecraft, 16th-18th centuries
Dissertation: Chancellor Oxenstierna, Cardinal Richelieu and Commerce: The problems and possibilities of governance in early-seventeenth century France and Sweden. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2004).


• Williams, Megan (Columbia University)
Contact: MKW2001 at COLUMBIA dot EDU
Era: 1440-1740
Geographic Regions: Habsburg Territories, East Central Europe, Italy, German States, Ottoman Empire
Fields: Diplomacy
Research Interests: I am currently researching a dissertation on diplomatic networks and diplomatic praxis in sixteenth-century Central and East Central Europe.


• Wright, Diana Gilliland (Independent Scholar)
Contact: DianaGWright at comcast dot net
Era: 15th Century
Geographic Regions: Venetian-Greek-Ottoman overlap
Research Interests: Venetian occupation of the Morea, Venetian-Ottoman diplomatics, HRE allegiances in the 4th Crusade
Forthcoming Book: The Venetian Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio, Vol. 1: Nauplion 1479-1483; Vol. 2, Crete, 1500-1502.

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1648-1815 A.D.

• Close, Christopher W. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of History)
Contact: cclose at history dot upenn dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Imperial Court/Institutions, Swabia
Fields: Diplomatic, Intellectual, Political, Religious, and Social
Research Interests: Intercity consultation and negotiation in the urban Reformation in Swabia (1525-1555)
Dissertation/Book: The Negotiated Reformation: Swabian Imperial Cities and Urban Reform (1530-1546)


• Ehresmann, Claudia (Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal)
Contact: clsohst at yahoo dot de
Eras: 1450-1648; 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture
Dissertation/Book: (published under the name Sohst, Claudia) Die Rezeption nordamerikanischer Architektur um 1900 in Deutschland und Österreich. (München 2006)


• Friedrich, Karin (University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (History), Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB154BP, Scotland)
Contact: k dot friedrich at abdn dot ac dot uk
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: East Central Europe, German States
Fields: Cultural, Intellectual, Political, Social History
Research Interests: Early modern Polish-German relations, Prussia and Brandenburg, urban history, festival culture, intellectual networks
Book/Dissertation: The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty 1569-1772. (Cambridge, 2000), published in Polish as Inne Prusy. Prusy Krolewskie i Polska miedzy wolnoscia a wolnosciami (1569-1772). (Poznan, 2005)


• Has-Ellison, John Trygve (University of Texas at Dallas)
Contact: jhasllsn at eaze dot net OR jxh058000 at utdallas dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Imperial Court, Scandinavia
Fields: Social, Cultural, Art History
Research Interests: Nobles of the Empire and the creation of the Central European Modern (after Jonathan Dewald).
Book/Dissertation: True Art is Always an Aristocratic Matter: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Munich 1890-1914.


• Helfferich, Tryntje (Ohio State University, Lima)
Contact: thelff at gmail dot com
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, France
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Religious, Military, Gender History
Research Interests: Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Reformation
Dissertation: 'The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman': Faith, Politics, and the Thirty Years War (2003)
Book: A Documentary History of the Thirty Years War


• Lifschitz, Avi (University College London, History Department)
Contact: avi_lif at yahoo dot com
Era: 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Swiss Confederation
Fields: Intellectual
Research Interests: Theories of language and mind, debates on the origin of language, and intellectual transfer across French- and German-speaking Europe
Dissertation: Debating Language: Academic Discourse and Public Controversy at the Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great (Oxford, 2007)


• Ogilvie, Sheilagh (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, U. K.)
Contact: sco2 at econ dot cam dot ac dot uk
Era: 1200-1450, 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Economic, Demographic, Social
Research Interests: Economic history of Germany and the Czech Lands, 1500-1800; History of demography, household structure, the family and gender in early modern Central and Eastern Europe; Social institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (serfdom, guilds, village communities, merchant associations)
Book: A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)


• Riches, Daniel (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Contact: dlriches at uchicago dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Scandinavia
Fields: Cultural, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Military, Political, Religious
Research Interests: Interaction of diplomatic and political history with intellectual, cultural, and religious forces
Dissertation: The Culture of Diplomacy in Brandenburg-Swedish Relations, 1575-1697
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Constantin Fasolt


• Thomson, Erik (Society of Fellows, University of Chicago)
Contact: ethomson at uchicago dot edu
Era: 1500-1750
Geographic Regions: German States, France, Netherlands, Sweden & Baltic
Fields: Political, Cultural, Intellectual, Diplomatic, Economic.
Research Interests: Commerce and Statecraft, 16th-18th centuries
Dissertation: Chancellor Oxenstierna, Cardinal Richelieu and Commerce: The problems and possibilities of governance in early-seventeenth century France and Sweden. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2004).


• Williams, Megan (Columbia University)
Contact: MKW2001 at COLUMBIA dot EDU
Era: 1440-1740
Geographic Regions: Habsburg Territories, East Central Europe, Italy, German States, Ottoman Empire
Fields: Diplomacy
Research Interests: I am currently researching a dissertation on diplomatic networks and diplomatic praxis in sixteenth-century Central and East Central Europe.

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Post 1815 A.D.

• Ehresmann, Claudia (Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal)
Contact: clsohst at yahoo dot de
Eras: 1450-1648; 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture
Dissertation/Book: (published under the name Sohst, Claudia) Die Rezeption nordamerikanischer Architektur um 1900 in Deutschland und Österreich. (München 2006)


• Has-Ellison, John Trygve (University of Texas at Dallas)
Contact: jhasllsn at eaze dot net OR jxh058000 at utdallas dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Imperial Court, Scandinavia
Fields: Social, Cultural, Art History
Research Interests: Nobles of the Empire and the creation of the Central European Modern (after Jonathan Dewald).
Book/Dissertation: True Art is Always an Aristocratic Matter: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Munich 1890-1914.


• Michalopoulos, Dimitris (Historical Institute for Studies on El. Veniselos and his Era, Athens, Greece)
Contact: dmichalo at hotmail dot com
Era: Post 1815
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Political, Religious, Social History
Book/Dissertation: Henry A. Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the problems of peace, 1812-1822. Translated from English into Greek and annotated, Athens: Papazissis, 2003, 614 pp.

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Scholars Listed by Geographical Region of Interest:
Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe, France, German States, Greece/Rome, Habsburg Territories, Imperial Court/Institutions, Italy, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Ottoman Empire, Scandinavia, Swiss Confederation

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Byzantine Empire

• Michalopoulos, Dimitris (Historical Institute for Studies on El. Veniselos and his Era, Athens, Greece)
Contact: dmichalo at hotmail dot com
Era: Post 1815
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Political, Religious, Social History
Book/Dissertation: Henry A. Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the problems of peace, 1812-1822. Translated from English into Greek and annotated, Athens: Papazissis, 2003, 614 pp.


• Morris, Stephen
Contact: smmorris58 at yahoo dot com
Era: 300-1500 (late antiquity to early modern)
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Religious, Social, and Gender Studies
Research Interests: Comparison of tolerance for various sexual behaviors/relationships (ex. divorce, remarriage, same-sex relationships)
Book/Dissertation: Blessings Begrudgingly Bestowed: Eastern Christian Pastoral Response to Sexuality


• Tanaka, Julie (University of California, Berkeley; History Department)
Contact: jktanaka at berkeley dot edu
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450, 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Byzantine Empire, Greece, Rome
Fields: Intellectual, Cultural, Political History
Research Interests: Humanism, Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Book/Dissertation: Germania fiat: The Christian Roman Imperial Tradition and the Conceptualization of Identities-- Greeks, Italians, and Germans.
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Thomas, A. Brady, Jr.

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East Central Europe

• Friedrich, Karin (University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (History), Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB154BP, Scotland)
Contact: k dot friedrich at abdn dot ac dot uk
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: East Central Europe, German States
Fields: Cultural, Intellectual, Political, Social History
Research Interests: Early modern Polish-German relations, Prussia and Brandenburg, urban history, festival culture, intellectual networks
Book/Dissertation: The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty 1569-1772. (Cambridge, 2000), published in Polish as Inne Prusy. Prusy Krolewskie i Polska miedzy wolnoscia a wolnosciami (1569-1772). (Poznan, 2005)


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: Edited together with Eckhard Keßler: Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vol.s, 1034 pp.


• Michalopoulos, Dimitris (Historical Institute for Studies on El. Veniselos and his Era, Athens, Greece)
Contact: dmichalo at hotmail dot com
Era: Post 1815
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Political, Religious, Social History
Book/Dissertation: Henry A. Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the problems of peace, 1812-1822. Translated from English into Greek and annotated, Athens: Papazissis, 2003, 614 pp.


• Morris, Stephen
Contact: smmorris58 at yahoo dot com
Era: 300-1500 (late antiquity to early modern)
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Religious, Social, and Gender Studies
Research Interests: Comparison of tolerance for various sexual behaviors/relationships (ex. divorce, remarriage, same-sex relationships)
Book/Dissertation: Blessings Begrudgingly Bestowed: Eastern Christian Pastoral Response to Sexuality


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Wheatcroft, Andrew (Director, Centre for Publishing Studies, University of Stirling)
Contact: ajmw1 at stir dot ac dot uk
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Military, Cultural, Art
Research Interests: Relationship between HRE and the East
Book: INFIDELS: a history of the conflict between Christendom and Islam. Random House Inc and Penguin


• Williams, Megan (Columbia University)
Contact: MKW2001 at COLUMBIA dot EDU
Era: 1440-1740
Geographic Regions: Habsburg Territories, East Central Europe, Italy, German States, Ottoman Empire
Fields: Diplomacy
Research Interests: I am currently researching a dissertation on diplomatic networks and diplomatic praxis in sixteenth-century Central and East Central Europe.

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France

• Helfferich, Tryntje (Ohio State University, Lima)
Contact: thelff at gmail dot com
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, France
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Religious, Military, Gender History
Research Interests: Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Reformation
Dissertation: 'The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman': Faith, Politics, and the Thirty Years War (2003)
Book: A Documentary History of the Thirty Years War


• Hummer, Hans (Wayne State University)
Contact: hummer at wayne dot edu
Eras: 300-1100
Geographic Regions: Early medieval Europe, continental, mostly France and Germany.
Fields: Social and Political History
Research Interests: Society and Politics of Early Medieval Europe
Book: Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm 600-1000 (Cambridge, 2005)


• von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dedo (Curator, The Corning Museum of Glass)
Contact: krosigkdv at cmog dot org
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy, France
Fields: Art (Decorative Arts)
Research Interests: Decorative Arts, Glass


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: Edited together with Eckhard Keßler: Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vol.s, 1034 pp.


• Lifschitz, Avi (University College London, History Department)
Contact: avi_lif at yahoo dot com
Era: 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Swiss Confederation
Fields: Intellectual
Research Interests: Theories of language and mind, debates on the origin of language, and intellectual transfer across French- and German-speaking Europe
Dissertation: Debating Language: Academic Discourse and Public Controversy at the Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great (Oxford, 2007)


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Sposato, Peter W. (University of Rochester)
Contact: vieri14 at yahoo dot com
Era: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Italy, England, Spain, Mediterranean
Fields: Political, Military, Diplomatic, Religious
Research Interests: Norman diaspora (Sicily, Antioch), crusades, medieval government in Norman Sicily, aristocracy in the Regno, diplomatic history between Norman Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Richard Kaeuper


• Thomson, Erik (Society of Fellows, University of Chicago)
Contact: ethomson at uchicago dot edu
Era: 1500-1750
Geographic Regions: German States, France, Netherlands, Sweden & Baltic
Fields: Political, Cultural, Intellectual, Diplomatic, Economic.
Research Interests: Commerce and Statecraft, 16th-18th centuries
Dissertation: Chancellor Oxenstierna, Cardinal Richelieu and Commerce: The problems and possibilities of governance in early-seventeenth century France and Sweden. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2004).

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German States

• Close, Christopher W. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of History)
Contact: cclose at history dot upenn dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Imperial Court/Institutions, Swabia
Fields: Diplomatic, Intellectual, Political, Religious, and Social
Research Interests: Intercity consultation and negotiation in the urban Reformation in Swabia (1525-1555)
Dissertation/Book: The Negotiated Reformation: Swabian Imperial Cities and Urban Reform (1530-1546)


• Ehresmann, Claudia (Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal)
Contact: clsohst at yahoo dot de
Eras: 1450-1648; 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture
Dissertation/Book: (published under the name Sohst, Claudia) Die Rezeption nordamerikanischer Architektur um 1900 in Deutschland und Österreich. (München 2006)


• Friedrich, Karin (University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (History), Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB154BP, Scotland)
Contact: k dot friedrich at abdn dot ac dot uk
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: East Central Europe, German States
Fields: Cultural, Intellectual, Political, Social History
Research Interests: Early modern Polish-German relations, Prussia and Brandenburg, urban history, festival culture, intellectual networks
Book/Dissertation: The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty 1569-1772. (Cambridge, 2000), published in Polish as Inne Prusy. Prusy Krolewskie i Polska miedzy wolnoscia a wolnosciami (1569-1772). (Poznan, 2005)


• Fuchs, Martina (Department of History, University of Vienna)
Contact: martina dot fuchs at univie dot ac dot at
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: Netherlands, German States
Fields: Political History
Research Interests: Reception of historical persons living in the 16th c. and in the 19th and 20th c.
Book/Dissertation: Karl V. Eine populäre Figur? Zur Rezeption des Kaisers in deutschsprachiger Belletristik. Münster 2002 (Geschichte in der Epoche Karls V. 1).


• Has-Ellison, John Trygve (University of Texas at Dallas)
Contact: jhasllsn at eaze dot net OR jxh058000 at utdallas dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Imperial Court, Scandinavia
Fields: Social, Cultural, Art History
Research Interests: Nobles of the Empire and the creation of the Central European Modern (after Jonathan Dewald).
Book/Dissertation: True Art is Always an Aristocratic Matter: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Munich 1890-1914.


• Helfferich, Tryntje (Ohio State University, Lima)
Contact: thelff at gmail dot com
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, France
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Religious, Military, Gender History
Research Interests: Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Reformation
Dissertation: 'The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman': Faith, Politics, and the Thirty Years War (2003)
Book: A Documentary History of the Thirty Years War


• Hummer, Hans (Wayne State University)
Contact: hummer at wayne dot edu
Eras: 300-1100
Geographic Regions: Early medieval Europe, continental, mostly France and Germany.
Fields: Social and Political History
Research Interests: Society and Politics of Early Medieval Europe
Book: Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm 600-1000 (Cambridge, 2005)


• Jestice, Phyllis (History Department, U. of Southern Mississippi)
Contact: phyllis.jestice at usm dot edu
Eras: 800-1200
Geographic Regions: Germany (back in the time before there were really separate German states!), Italy, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Religious, Intellectual, Political, Gender
Research Interests: Monastic reform, Ottonian regents
Book: Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1997)


• Johnson, Christine R. (Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis)
Contact: cjohns at wustl dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States in relation to the other areas/institutions
Fields: Political, Cultural, Religious History
Research Interests: The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, 1440-1556
Book Manuscript: Renaissance Encounters: Germany and the Overseas Expansion of Europe


• von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dedo (Curator, The Corning Museum of Glass)
Contact: krosigkdv at cmog dot org
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy, France
Fields: Art (Decorative Arts)
Research Interests: Decorative Arts, Glass


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: Edited together with Eckhard Keßler: Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vol.s, 1034 pp.


• Lemmond, Jon (University of California Santa Barbara)
Contact: jlemmond at umail dot ucsb dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Nuremberg, Reichsstadt
Fields: Religious, Gender, Cultural History
Research Interests: Domestic Violence in the 16th c.
Dissertation: "Without Just Cause": the Social and Cultural Constructions of Domestic Abuse in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg
Graduate Advisors/Mentors: Abraham Friesen and Sears McGee


• Lifschitz, Avi (University College London, History Department)
Contact: avi_lif at yahoo dot com
Era: 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Swiss Confederation
Fields: Intellectual
Research Interests: Theories of language and mind, debates on the origin of language, and intellectual transfer across French- and German-speaking Europe
Dissertation: Debating Language: Academic Discourse and Public Controversy at the Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great (Oxford, 2007)


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Riches, Daniel (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Contact: dlriches at uchicago dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Scandinavia
Fields: Cultural, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Military, Political, Religious
Research Interests: Interaction of diplomatic and political history with intellectual, cultural, and religious forces
Dissertation: The Culture of Diplomacy in Brandenburg-Swedish Relations, 1575-1697
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Constantin Fasolt


• Tanaka, Julie (University of California, Berkeley; History Department)
Contact: jktanaka at berkeley dot edu
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450, 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Byzantine Empire, Greece, Rome
Fields: Intellectual, Cultural, Political History
Research Interests: Humanism, Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Book/Dissertation: Germania fiat: The Christian Roman Imperial Tradition and the Conceptualization of Identities-- Greeks, Italians, and Germans.
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Thomas, A. Brady, Jr.


• Sposato, Peter W. (University of Rochester)
Contact: vieri14 at yahoo dot com
Era: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Italy, England, Spain, Mediterranean
Fields: Political, Military, Diplomatic, Religious
Research Interests: Norman diaspora (Sicily, Antioch), crusades, medieval government in Norman Sicily, aristocracy in the Regno, diplomatic history between Norman Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Richard Kaeuper


• Thomas, Andrew L. (Purdue University)
Contact: thomasal at purdue dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Monarchy, Imperial Court
Fields: Intellectual, Religious, Court culture
Dissertation: A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in Bavaria and the Palatinate, 1550-1650
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Charles Ingrao


• Thomson, Erik (Society of Fellows, University of Chicago)
Contact: ethomson at uchicago dot edu
Era: 1500-1750
Geographic Regions: German States, France, Netherlands, Sweden & Baltic
Fields: Political, Cultural, Intellectual, Diplomatic, Economic.
Research Interests: Commerce and Statecraft, 16th-18th centuries
Dissertation: Chancellor Oxenstierna, Cardinal Richelieu and Commerce: The problems and possibilities of governance in early-seventeenth century France and Sweden. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2004).


• Wheatcroft, Andrew (Director, Centre for Publishing Studies, University of Stirling)
Contact: ajmw1 at stir dot ac dot uk
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Military, Cultural, Art
Research Interests: Relationship between HRE and the East
Book: INFIDELS: a history of the conflict between Christendom and Islam. Random House Inc and Penguin


• Williams, Megan (Columbia University)
Contact: MKW2001 at COLUMBIA dot EDU
Era: 1440-1740
Geographic Regions: Habsburg Territories, East Central Europe, Italy, German States, Ottoman Empire
Fields: Diplomacy
Research Interests: I am currently researching a dissertation on diplomatic networks and diplomatic praxis in sixteenth-century Central and East Central Europe.

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Greece/Rome

• Tanaka, Julie (University of California, Berkeley; History Department)
Contact: jktanaka at berkeley dot edu
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450, 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Byzantine Empire, Greece, Rome
Fields: Intellectual, Cultural, Political History
Research Interests: Humanism, Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Book/Dissertation: Germania fiat: The Christian Roman Imperial Tradition and the Conceptualization of Identities-- Greeks, Italians, and Germans.
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Thomas, A. Brady, Jr.

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Habsburg Territories

• Close, Christopher W. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of History)
Contact: cclose at history dot upenn dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Imperial Court/Institutions, Swabia
Fields: Diplomatic, Intellectual, Political, Religious, and Social
Research Interests: Intercity consultation and negotiation in the urban Reformation in Swabia (1525-1555)
Dissertation/Book: The Negotiated Reformation: Swabian Imperial Cities and Urban Reform (1530-1546)


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Riches, Daniel (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Contact: dlriches at uchicago dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Scandinavia
Fields: Cultural, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Military, Political, Religious
Research Interests: Interaction of diplomatic and political history with intellectual, cultural, and religious forces
Dissertation: The Culture of Diplomacy in Brandenburg-Swedish Relations, 1575-1697
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Constantin Fasolt


• Thomas, Andrew L. (Purdue University)
Contact: thomasal at purdue dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Monarchy, Imperial Court
Fields: Intellectual, Religious, Court culture
Dissertation: A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in Bavaria and the Palatinate, 1550-1650
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Charles Ingrao


• Williams, Megan (Columbia University)
Contact: MKW2001 at COLUMBIA dot EDU
Era: 1440-1740
Geographic Regions: Habsburg Territories, East Central Europe, Italy, German States, Ottoman Empire
Fields: Diplomacy
Research Interests: I am currently researching a dissertation on diplomatic networks and diplomatic praxis in sixteenth-century Central and East Central Europe.

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Imperial Court/Institutions

• Close, Christopher W. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of History)
Contact: cclose at history dot upenn dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Imperial Court/Institutions, Swabia
Fields: Diplomatic, Intellectual, Political, Religious, and Social
Research Interests: Intercity consultation and negotiation in the urban Reformation in Swabia (1525-1555)
Dissertation/Book: The Negotiated Reformation: Swabian Imperial Cities and Urban Reform (1530-1546)


• Has-Ellison, John Trygve (University of Texas at Dallas)
Contact: jhasllsn at eaze dot net OR jxh058000 at utdallas dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Imperial Court, Scandinavia
Fields: Social, Cultural, Art History
Research Interests: Nobles of the Empire and the creation of the Central European Modern (after Jonathan Dewald).
Book/Dissertation: True Art is Always an Aristocratic Matter: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Munich 1890-1914.


• Jestice, Phyllis (History Department, U. of Southern Mississippi)
Contact: phyllis.jestice at usm dot edu
Eras: 800-1200
Geographic Regions: Germany (back in the time before there were really separate German states!), Italy, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Religious, Intellectual, Political, Gender
Research Interests: Monastic reform, Ottonian regents
Book: Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1997)


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: Edited together with Eckhard Keßler: Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vol.s, 1034 pp.


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Thomas, Andrew L. (Purdue University)
Contact: thomasal at purdue dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Monarchy, Imperial Court
Fields: Intellectual, Religious, Court culture
Dissertation: A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in Bavaria and the Palatinate, 1550-1650
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Charles Ingrao

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Italy

• Camiz, Alessandro (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Contact: alessandro dot camiz at uniroma1 dot it
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: Northern and central Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture, Town planning
Research Interests: Communal age town planning
Dissertation/Book: Town planning in the Commune of Ravenna (X:XIV)
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Phd. tutor: Prof. Enrico Guidoni


• Ehresmann, Claudia (Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal)
Contact: clsohst at yahoo dot de
Eras: 1450-1648; 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture
Dissertation/Book: (published under the name Sohst, Claudia) Die Rezeption nordamerikanischer Architektur um 1900 in Deutschland und Österreich. (München 2006)


• Jestice, Phyllis (History Department, U. of Southern Mississippi)
Contact: phyllis.jestice at usm dot edu
Eras: 800-1200
Geographic Regions: Germany (back in the time before there were really separate German states!), Italy, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Religious, Intellectual, Political, Gender
Research Interests: Monastic reform, Ottonian regents
Book: Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1997)


• von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dedo (Curator, The Corning Museum of Glass)
Contact: krosigkdv at cmog dot org
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy, France
Fields: Art (Decorative Arts)
Research Interests: Decorative Arts, Glass


• Sposato, Peter W. (University of Rochester)
Contact: vieri14 at yahoo dot com
Era: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Italy, England, Spain, Mediterranean
Fields: Political, Military, Diplomatic, Religious
Research Interests: Norman diaspora (Sicily, Antioch), crusades, medieval government in Norman Sicily, aristocracy in the Regno, diplomatic history between Norman Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Richard Kaeuper


• Williams, Megan (Columbia University)
Contact: MKW2001 at COLUMBIA dot EDU
Era: 1440-1740
Geographic Regions: Habsburg Territories, East Central Europe, Italy, German States, Ottoman Empire
Fields: Diplomacy
Research Interests: I am currently researching a dissertation on diplomatic networks and diplomatic praxis in sixteenth-century Central and East Central Europe.


• Wright, Diana Gilliland (Independent Scholar)
Contact: DianaGWright at comcast dot net
Era: 15th Century
Geographic Regions: Venetian-Greek-Ottoman overlap
Research Interests: Venetian occupation of the Morea, Venetian-Ottoman diplomatics, HRE allegiances in the 4th Crusade
Forthcoming Book: The Venetian Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio, Vol. 1: Nauplion 1479-1483; Vol. 2, Crete, 1500-1502.

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Mediterranean

• Sposato, Peter W. (University of Rochester)
Contact: vieri14 at yahoo dot com
Era: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Italy, England, Spain, Mediterranean
Fields: Political, Military, Diplomatic, Religious
Research Interests: Norman diaspora (Sicily, Antioch), crusades, medieval government in Norman Sicily, aristocracy in the Regno, diplomatic history between Norman Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Richard Kaeuper

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Netherlands

• Fuchs, Martina (Department of History, University of Vienna)
Contact: martina dot fuchs at univie dot ac dot at
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: Netherlands, German States
Fields: Political History
Research Interests: Reception of historical persons living in the 16th c. and in the 19th and 20th c.
Book/Dissertation: Karl V. Eine populäre Figur? Zur Rezeption des Kaisers in deutschsprachiger Belletristik. Münster 2002 (Geschichte in der Epoche Karls V. 1).


• Helfferich, Tryntje (Ohio State University, Lima)
Contact: thelff at gmail dot com
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, France
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Religious, Military, Gender History
Research Interests: Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Reformation
Dissertation: 'The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman': Faith, Politics, and the Thirty Years War (2003)
Book: A Documentary History of the Thirty Years War


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: Edited together with Eckhard Keßler: Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vol.s, 1034 pp.


• Thomson, Erik (Society of Fellows, University of Chicago)
Contact: ethomson at uchicago dot edu
Era: 1500-1750
Geographic Regions: German States, France, Netherlands, Sweden & Baltic
Fields: Political, Cultural, Intellectual, Diplomatic, Economic.
Research Interests: Commerce and Statecraft, 16th-18th centuries
Dissertation: Chancellor Oxenstierna, Cardinal Richelieu and Commerce: The problems and possibilities of governance in early-seventeenth century France and Sweden. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2004).

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Ottoman Empire

• Williams, Megan (Columbia University)
Contact: MKW2001 at COLUMBIA dot EDU
Era: 1440-1740
Geographic Regions: Habsburg Territories, East Central Europe, Italy, German States, Ottoman Empire
Fields: Diplomacy
Research Interests: I am currently researching a dissertation on diplomatic networks and diplomatic praxis in sixteenth-century Central and East Central Europe.


• Wright, Diana Gilliland (Independent Scholar)
Contact: DianaGWright at comcast dot net
Era: 15th Century
Geographic Regions: Venetian-Greek-Ottoman overlap
Research Interests: Venetian occupation of the Morea, Venetian-Ottoman diplomatics, HRE allegiances in the 4th Crusade
Forthcoming Book: The Venetian Correspondence of Bartolomeo Minio, Vol. 1: Nauplion 1479-1483; Vol. 2, Crete, 1500-1502.

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Scandinavia

• Has-Ellison, John Trygve (University of Texas at Dallas)
Contact: jhasllsn at eaze dot net OR jxh058000 at utdallas dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Imperial Court, Scandinavia
Fields: Social, Cultural, Art History
Research Interests: Nobles of the Empire and the creation of the Central European Modern (after Jonathan Dewald).
Book/Dissertation: True Art is Always an Aristocratic Matter: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Munich 1890-1914.


• Riches, Daniel (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Contact: dlriches at uchicago dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Scandinavia
Fields: Cultural, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Military, Political, Religious
Research Interests: Interaction of diplomatic and political history with intellectual, cultural, and religious forces
Dissertation: The Culture of Diplomacy in Brandenburg-Swedish Relations, 1575-1697
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Constantin Fasolt


• Thomson, Erik (Society of Fellows, University of Chicago)
Contact: ethomson at uchicago dot edu
Era: 1500-1750
Geographic Regions: German States, France, Netherlands, Sweden & Baltic
Fields: Political, Cultural, Intellectual, Diplomatic, Economic.
Research Interests: Commerce and Statecraft, 16th-18th centuries
Dissertation: Chancellor Oxenstierna, Cardinal Richelieu and Commerce: The problems and possibilities of governance in early-seventeenth century France and Sweden. (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2004).

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Swiss Confederation

• Caldwell, Amy R. (California State University, Channel Islands)
Contact: arcaldwell at gmail dot com
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Region: Swiss Confederation
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Religious History
Research Interests: Politics in the Zurich Reformation
Book/Dissertation: Reformation Politics and Religious Persecution: Zürich, Zwingli and the Swiss Brethren 1515-1527


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: Edited together with Eckhard Keßler: Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vol.s, 1034 pp.


• Lifschitz, Avi (University College London, History Department)
Contact: avi_lif at yahoo dot com
Era: 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Swiss Confederation
Fields: Intellectual
Research Interests: Theories of language and mind, debates on the origin of language, and intellectual transfer across French- and German-speaking Europe
Dissertation: Debating Language: Academic Discourse and Public Controversy at the Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great (Oxford, 2007)

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Art/Architecture, Cultural, Demographic, Diplomatic, Economic, Gender, Intellectual, Military, Political, Religious, Social

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Art/Architecture

• Camiz, Alessandro (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Contact: alessandro dot camiz at uniroma1 dot it
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: Northern and central Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture, Town planning
Research Interests: Communal age town planning
Dissertation/Book: Town planning in the Commune of Ravenna (X:XIV)
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Phd. tutor: Prof. Enrico Guidoni


• Ehresmann, Claudia (Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal)
Contact: clsohst at yahoo dot de
Eras: 1450-1648; 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy
Fields: Art/Architecture
Dissertation/Book: (published under the name Sohst, Claudia) Die Rezeption nordamerikanischer Architektur um 1900 in Deutschland und Österreich. (München 2006)


• Has-Ellison, John Trygve (University of Texas at Dallas)
Contact: jhasllsn at eaze dot net OR jxh058000 at utdallas dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Imperial Court, Scandinavia
Fields: Social, Cultural, Art History
Research Interests: Nobles of the Empire and the creation of the Central European Modern (after Jonathan Dewald).
Book/Dissertation: True Art is Always an Aristocratic Matter: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Munich 1890-1914.


• von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dedo (Curator, The Corning Museum of Glass)
Contact: krosigkdv at cmog dot org
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Italy, France
Fields: Art (Decorative Arts)
Research Interests: Decorative Arts, Glass


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Wheatcroft, Andrew (Director, Centre for Publishing Studies, University of Stirling)
Contact: ajmw1 at stir dot ac dot uk
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Military, Cultural, Art
Research Interests: Relationship between HRE and the East
Book: INFIDELS: a history of the conflict between Christendom and Islam. Random House Inc and Penguin

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Cultural

• Friedrich, Karin (University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (History), Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB154BP, Scotland)
Contact: k dot friedrich at abdn dot ac dot uk
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: East Central Europe, German States
Fields: Cultural, Intellectual, Political, Social History
Research Interests: Early modern Polish-German relations, Prussia and Brandenburg, urban history, festival culture, intellectual networks
Book/Dissertation: The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty 1569-1772. (Cambridge, 2000), published in Polish as Inne Prusy. Prusy Krolewskie i Polska miedzy wolnoscia a wolnosciami (1569-1772). (Poznan, 2005)


• Has-Ellison, John Trygve (University of Texas at Dallas)
Contact: jhasllsn at eaze dot net OR jxh058000 at utdallas dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815, post 1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Imperial Court, Scandinavia
Fields: Social, Cultural, Art History
Research Interests: Nobles of the Empire and the creation of the Central European Modern (after Jonathan Dewald).
Book/Dissertation: True Art is Always an Aristocratic Matter: Nobles and the Fine Arts in Fin-de-Siecle Munich 1890-1914.


• Johnson, Christine R. (Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis)
Contact: cjohns at wustl dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States in relation to the other areas/institutions
Fields: Political, Cultural, Religious History
Research Interests: The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, 1440-1556
Book Manuscript: Renaissance Encounters: Germany and the Overseas Expansion of Europe


• Lemmond, Jon (University of California Santa Barbara)
Contact: jlemmond at umail dot ucsb dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Nuremberg, Reichsstadt
Fields: Religious, Gender, Cultural History
Research Interests: Domestic Violence in the 16th c.
Dissertation: "Without Just Cause": the Social and Cultural Constructions of Domestic Abuse in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg
Graduate Advisors/Mentors: Abraham Friesen and Sears McGee


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Riches, Daniel (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Contact: dlriches at uchicago dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Scandinavia
Fields: Cultural, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Military, Political, Religious
Research Interests: Interaction of diplomatic and political history with intellectual, cultural, and religious forces
Dissertation: The Culture of Diplomacy in Brandenburg-Swedish Relations, 1575-1697
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Constantin Fasolt


• Tanaka, Julie (University of California, Berkeley; History Department)
Contact: jktanaka at berkeley dot edu
Eras: 800-1200, 1200-1450, 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Byzantine Empire, Greece, Rome
Fields: Intellectual, Cultural, Political History
Research Interests: Humanism, Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Book/Dissertation: Germania fiat: The Christian Roman Imperial Tradition and the Conceptualization of Identities-- Greeks, Italians, and Germans.
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Thomas, A. Brady, Jr.


• Thomas, Andrew L. (Purdue University)
Contact: thomasal at purdue dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Monarchy, Imperial Court
Fields: Intellectual, Religious, Court culture
Dissertation: A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in Bavaria and the Palatinate, 1550-1650
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Dr. Charles Ingrao


• Wheatcroft, Andrew (Director, Centre for Publishing Studies, University of Stirling)
Contact: ajmw1 at stir dot ac dot uk
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Military, Cultural, Art
Research Interests: Relationship between HRE and the East
Book: INFIDELS: a history of the conflict between Christendom and Islam. Random House Inc and Penguin

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Demographic

• Sheilagh Ogilvie (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, U. K.)
Era: 1200-1450, 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Economic, Demographic, Social
Research Interests: Economic history of Germany and the Czech Lands, 1500-1800; History of demography, household structure, the family and gender in early modern Central and Eastern Europe; Social institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (serfdom, guilds, village communities, merchant associations)
Book: A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)

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Diplomatic

• Caldwell, Amy R. (California State University, Channel Islands)
Contact: arcaldwell at gmail dot com
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Region: Swiss Confederation
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Religious History
Research Interests: Politics in the Zurich Reformation
Book/Dissertation: Reformation Politics and Religious Persecution: Zürich, Zwingli and the Swiss Brethren 1515-1527


• Close, Christopher W. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of History)
Contact: cclose at history dot upenn dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Imperial Court/Institutions, Swabia
Fields: Diplomatic, Intellectual, Political, Religious, and Social
Research Interests: Intercity consultation and negotiation in the urban Reformation in Swabia (1525-1555)
Dissertation/Book: The Negotiated Reformation: Swabian Imperial Cities and Urban Reform (1530-1546)


• Helfferich, Tryntje (Ohio State University, Lima)
Contact: thelff at gmail dot com
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, France
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Religious, Military, Gender History
Research Interests: Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Reformation
Dissertation: 'The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman': Faith, Politics, and the Thirty Years War (2003)
Book: A Documentary History of the Thirty Years War


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).


• Riches, Daniel (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Contact: dlriches at uchicago dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Scandinavia
Fields: Cultural, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Military, Political, Religious
Research Interests: Interaction of diplomatic and political history with intellectual, cultural, and religious forces
Dissertation: The Culture of Diplomacy in Brandenburg-Swedish Relations, 1575-1697
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Constantin Fasolt


• Sposato, Peter W. (University of Rochester)
Contact: vieri14 at yahoo dot com
Era: 800-1200, 1200-1450
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Italy, England, Spain, Mediterranean
Fields: Political, Military, Diplomatic, Religious
Research Interests: Norman diaspora (Sicily, Antioch), crusades, medieval government in Norman Sicily, aristocracy in the Regno, diplomatic history between Norman Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire
Graduate Advisor/Mentor: Professor Richard Kaeuper


• Williams, Megan (Columbia University)
Contact: MKW2001 at COLUMBIA dot EDU
Era: 1440-1740
Geographic Regions: Habsburg Territories, East Central Europe, Italy, German States, Ottoman Empire
Fields: Diplomacy
Research Interests: I am currently researching a dissertation on diplomatic networks and diplomatic praxis in sixteenth-century Central and East Central Europe.

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Economic

• Sheilagh Ogilvie (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, U. K.)
Era: 1200-1450, 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, East Central Europe
Fields: Economic, Demographic, Social
Research Interests: Economic history of Germany and the Czech Lands, 1500-1800; History of demography, household structure, the family and gender in early modern Central and Eastern Europe; Social institutions in Central and Eastern Europe (serfdom, guilds, village communities, merchant associations)
Book: A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)

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Gender

• Helfferich, Tryntje (Ohio State University, Lima)
Contact: thelff at gmail dot com
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, France
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Religious, Military, Gender History
Research Interests: Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Hesse-Cassel, Reformation
Dissertation: 'The Scepter Rests Well in the Hands of a Woman': Faith, Politics, and the Thirty Years War (2003)
Book: A Documentary History of the Thirty Years War


• Jestice, Phyllis (History Department, U. of Southern Mississippi)
Contact: phyllis.jestice at usm dot edu
Eras: 800-1200
Geographic Regions: Germany (back in the time before there were really separate German states!), Italy, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Religious, Intellectual, Political, Gender
Research Interests: Monastic reform, Ottonian regents
Book: Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1997)


• Lemmond, Jon (University of California Santa Barbara)
Contact: jlemmond at umail dot ucsb dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, Nuremberg, Reichsstadt
Fields: Religious, Gender, Cultural History
Research Interests: Domestic Violence in the 16th c.
Dissertation: "Without Just Cause": the Social and Cultural Constructions of Domestic Abuse in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg
Graduate Advisors/Mentors: Abraham Friesen and Sears McGee


• Morris, Stephen
Contact: smmorris58 at yahoo dot com
Era: 300-1500 (late antiquity to early modern)
Geographic Regions: Byzantine Empire, East Central Europe
Fields: Religious, Social, and Gender Studies
Research Interests: Comparison of tolerance for various sexual behaviors/relationships (ex. divorce, remarriage, same-sex relationships)
Book/Dissertation: Blessings Begrudgingly Bestowed: Eastern Christian Pastoral Response to Sexuality


• Patrouch, Joseph F. (Department of History, Florida International University, Miami FL 33199 USA)
Contact: patrouch at fiu dot edu
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Regions: German States, with special emphasis on Habsburg hereditary lands, France, East Central Europe (especially Bohemia and Upper Hungary), Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Diplomatic, Religious, Social, Cultural, Gender, Art and Architecture
Research Interests: Habsburg archduchesses, particularly Elizabeth (1554-1592)
Book: A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter Reformation in Upper Austria Under the Habsburgs (Brill, 2000).

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Intellectual

• Caldwell, Amy R. (California State University, Channel Islands)
Contact: arcaldwell at gmail dot com
Era: 1450-1648
Geographic Region: Swiss Confederation
Fields: Political, Diplomatic, Intellectual, Religious History
Research Interests: Politics in the Zurich Reformation
Book/Dissertation: Reformation Politics and Religious Persecution: Zürich, Zwingli and the Swiss Brethren 1515-1527


• Close, Christopher W. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of History)
Contact: cclose at history dot upenn dot edu
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: German States, Habsburg Territories, Imperial Court/Institutions, Swabia
Fields: Diplomatic, Intellectual, Political, Religious, and Social
Research Interests: Intercity consultation and negotiation in the urban Reformation in Swabia (1525-1555)
Dissertation/Book: The Negotiated Reformation: Swabian Imperial Cities and Urban Reform (1530-1546)


• Friedrich, Karin (University of Aberdeen, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (History), Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB154BP, Scotland)
Contact: k dot friedrich at abdn dot ac dot uk
Eras: 1450-1648, 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: East Central Europe, German States
Fields: Cultural, Intellectual, Political, Social History
Research Interests: Early modern Polish-German relations, Prussia and Brandenburg, urban history, festival culture, intellectual networks
Book/Dissertation: The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty 1569-1772. (Cambridge, 2000), published in Polish as Inne Prusy. Prusy Krolewskie i Polska miedzy wolnoscia a wolnosciami (1569-1772). (Poznan, 2005)


• Jestice, Phyllis (History Department, U. of Southern Mississippi)
Contact: phyllis.jestice at usm dot edu
Eras: 800-1200
Geographic Regions: Germany (back in the time before there were really separate German states!), Italy, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Religious, Intellectual, Political, Gender
Research Interests: Monastic reform, Ottonian regents
Book: Wayward Monks and the Religious Revolution of the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1997)


• Kuhn, Heinrich C. (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich / Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance)
Contact: hck at lrz dot uni-muenchen dot de
Era: ca. 1348 to 1660
Geographic Regions: German States, Netherlands, Swiss Confederation, Italy, France, East Central Europe, Imperial Court/Institutions
Fields: Intellectual. Political History
Research Interests: History of philosophy at universities, ca. 1348 to ca. 1650; Application of bibliometric methods to renaissance intellectual history; Political ideas up to the early 17th century
Dissertation: Venetischer Aristotelismus im Ende der aristotelischen Welt. Aspekte der Welt und des Denkens des Cesare Cremonini, Frankfurt a.M. 1996, 864 pp.
Book: (Edited together with Eckhard Keßler) Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. - Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom späten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit, Paderborn, München [Fink] 2003, 2 Vol.s, 1034 pp.


• Lifschitz, Avi (University College London, History Department)
Contact: avi_lif at yahoo dot com
Era: 1648-1815
Geographic Regions: France, German States, Swiss Confederation
Fields: Intellectual
Research Interests: Theories of language and mind, debates on the origin of language, and intellectual transfer across French- and German-speaking Europe
Dissertation: Debating Language: Academic Discourse and Public Controve