Professor Joachim Whaley
Joachim Whaley is Professor of German History and Thought and author of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire 1493-1806, 2 vols Oxford: OUP, 2012. He has also published numerous articles, reviews and contributions to handbooks and lexicons of German history and literature, and is currently working on a history of Austria and German-speaking Europe from the later Middle Ages to the present day. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1984, and in 2013 he was awarded a LittD by the University of Cambridge for his publications on early modern German history. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.
Dr William O’Reilly
William O’Reilly is University Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Leibniz Chair in History, German Institute for Maritime History, and Full-time Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest. He has worked on a range of topics in early modern European and Atlantic history, and is particularly interested in the history of European migration, colonialism and imperialism. His current research project, with the working title Surviving empire. The translation of imperial context in a globalizing world, 1550-1800, explores the inter-relationship of European imperialisms from the later sixteenth century to the French revolution.
Dr Janine Maegraith
Dr Janine Maegraith is Affiliated College Lecturer in History and Special Supervisor in Economic History (Economics Tripos) at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on the early modern history of Central Europe, especially German speaking territories, with a focus on consumption and material culture, inheritance and household structure, the history and development of female religious orders, and the impact of secularization on monastic pharmacy and rural welfare. She is currently working on the project “The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces from the 16th to the 18th Century” funded by the FWF Austrian Research Fund, in collaboration with PD Dr Margareth Lanzinger.
Guido G. Beduschi
Guido G. Beduschi is a postgraduate student at Corpus Christi College, where he is completing a PhD on political communication and historiography in early eighteenth-century Italy. In 2016, he completed his BA at the University of Milan, where his research was centred on the governor of the city of Milan at the turn of the eighteenth century. He did his MPhil at Corpus Christi Cambridge, dealing with the work of the pro-Habsburg Italian historian Francesco Maria Ottieri (1665-1742). His research interests include the War of the Spanish Succession, and the dissemination and circulation of information in early-eighteenth century Europe.
Benedek M. Varga
Benedek M. Varga is a postgraduate student at Trinity Hall, where he is completing a PhD on works of the eighteenth-century German historian August Ludwig Schlözer and his contributions to debates about colonies and migration. He read a BA in History and Latina at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest with a thesis on the symbolism surrounding the coronation ritual of Maria Theresa. In 2014, he began his studies at Central European University (CEU), where he completed his MA in Comparative History and Political Thought, on the nature of royal power. He did his MPhil in Modern European History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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