Notes on Contributors
Ya-chen Ma
is professor at the Institute of History of the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. She obtained her PhD at Stanford University in 2007 and was a visiting scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University from 2013 to 2014. Her research interests focus on late imperial Chinese art history and cultural history. She has published The Commemorative Images of War: The Cultural Construction of Qing Martial Prowess and numerous essays including “War and Empire: Images of Battle during the Qianlong Reign,” in Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West.
Galina Tirnanić
is associate professor of art history in the Department of Art and Art History at Oakland University. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2010. She specializes in the visual culture of punishment in the Byzantine Empire and has published essays on a variety of related subjects, including the sense of touch; images of martyrdom; relationship between text, image, and body; and expression of political authority. Her major current project is a book- length study on the spectacles of punishment in medieval Constantinople. She is the author of “A Touch of Violence: Feeling Pain, Perceiving Pain in Byzantium,” in Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium, edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margaret Mullett.
Alain Hugon
is professor of modern history at University of Caen, Normandy. He received his PhD for the dissertation “Au service du roi catholique: ‘honorables ambassadeurs’ et ‘divins espions’ face à la France. Représentation diplomatique et service secret dans les relations hispano-françaises de 1598 à 1635,” under the supervision of André Zysberg. He is the author of many books, including La Grande Migration: De l’Espagne à l’Amérique 1492–1700 (2019), Philippe IV: Le siècle de Vélasquez (2014), and Naples insurgée, 1647–1648: De l’événement à la mémoire (2011).
Ramon Voges
PhD (2017), is deputy head of the German Museum of Books and Writing of the German National Library. He pursued his PhD at the University of Paderborn under the supervision of Johannes Süßmann. In 2019, he published an academic monograph on Hogenberg‘s visual reports under the title Das Auge der Geschichte: Der Aufstand der Niederlande und die Französischen Religionskriege im Spiegel der Bildberichte Franz Hogenbergs (ca. 1560–1610). In his research he focuses on early modern prints and publishing houses.
David de Boer
is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. He investigates refugee advocacy and humanitarianism in early modern Europe. After obtaining his BA and MA (cum laude) in history at Utrecht University, he received his PhD at the University of Konstanz and Leiden University (cotutelle) in 2019 for his dissertation “Religious Persecution and Transnational Compassion in the Dutch Vernacular Press, 1655–1745.” He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the Leibniz Institute of European History, and the European University Institute. Before moving to Amsterdam, he lectured at Leiden University and Utrecht University. He has published on iconoclasm, civic identity, and public diplomacy.
Malte Griesse
is visiting professor at LMU Munich. He received his PhD from the EHESS in Paris for a study on the evolution of personal ties under Stalin and the influence of (informal) communication on the formation of opinion. Published as Communiquer, juger et agir sous Staline: La personne prise entre ses liens avec les proches et son rapport au système politico-idéologique (2011), the book is being translated into English. He defended his habilitation thesis at University of Konstanz on revolts in early modern Europe. His currently researches subaltern autobiographical practices in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He held research fellowships in Moscow, Paris, Vienna, Wolfenbüttel, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Nóra G. Etényi
(Hab. 2010) is an assistant professor at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History of Hungary of the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest (ELTE). She obtained her PhD at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She specializes in early modern media, propaganda, and the formation of the public opinion in the German-speaking world. Among other publications, she is the author of Pamflet és Politika (Pamphlet and Politics) (Budapest, 2009), about the image of Hungary in the seventeenth-century German public opinion, and Színlelés és rejtőzködés: a kora újkori magyar politika szerepjátékai (Simulation and dissimulation: role-playing in early modern Hungarian politics) (Budapest, 2010), edited with Ildikó Horn.
Joana Fraga
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon, where she is currently conducting a research project on political representations in the Portuguese Empire between 1640 and 1750. She obtained her PhD from the University of Barcelona for her dissertation “Three Revolts in Images: Catalonia, Portugal and Naples (1640–1668).” Her most recent publications on the topic of revolts are 1640: A Restauração, da história local à história global (with Thiago Krause, Tinta da China, 2020) and “Trois révoltes en images: La Catalogne, le Portugal et Naples dans les années 1640” (with Joan-Lluís Palos, in Soulèvements, révoltes, revolutions.)
Nancy Shields Kollmann
is William H. Bonsall Professor in History at Stanford University. She has worked on politics and society, social values, gender relations, and the criminal law in Russia. She has published By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia (Cornell UP, 1999), Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia (CUP, 2013), and The Russian Empire, 1450–1801 (OUP, 2017), a synthetic history of Russia as a “Eurasian politics of difference empire.” She plans to follow up this theme and return to the practice of the law by studying the implementation of Catherine II’s judicial reforms (1775) in the non-Russian provinces.
Gleb Kazakov
is postdoctoral researcher at the Justus Liebig University Gießen. He obtained his PhD from the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg. He is currently working on his first monograph, which will be published by Franz Steiner Verlag in 2021 and is based on his dissertation “The Moscow Strel’tsy Uprising of 1682 in Trans-cultural Communication: Transfer of Information and Circulation of Political Narratives between Muscovy and Europe 1682–1750.” Together with Malte Griesse, he has edited the thematic issue “Kosakische Aufstände und ihre Anführer: Heroisierung, Dämonisierung und Tabuisierung der Erinnerung” in the journal Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2017).
Monika Barget
studied history, art history, and Catholic theology at the University of Augsburg. She obtained her PhD from the University of Konstanz, where she worked on riots, revolts, and revolutions in the British Empire. From 2017 to 2018, she was academic project manager at the Centre for Digital Humanities at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Here she contributed to the “Letters 1916–1923” digital edition and the “Ignite” project in design thinking and maker culture. Since January 2019, Monika Barget has been a postdoctoral researcher at IEG Mainz. Her current research interests include mobility and borders in the early modern period, geo-humanities, public humanities, and the digital analysis of media networks.
Fabian Fechner
is a postdoctoral research fellow in global history at the University of Hagen since 2016. His research interests include Latin American colonial history, studies in cultural contact, and religious history. His doctoral thesis deals with early modern globalizing politics and Paraguayan Jesuit missions. Previously he studied history, geography, and Spanish philology in Tübingen and Buenos Aires. From 2012 to 2015 he worked in a project about Peruvian heresies in the sixteenth century at Tübingen University. His current research deals with a systematic approach to African cartography (1700–1900), concerning the rhetorics of “discovery,” travel liars, and multiple layers of epistemology.