Dr. Tobias P. Graf
Assistant Professor
In October 2017, Dr Graf joined the research project Stories of Survival. Recovering the Connected Histories of Eastern Christinianity in the Early Modern World directed by Dr John-Paul Ghobrial at the University of Oxford as a Research Associate.
Contact:
Faculty of History
University of Oxford
George Street
Oxford, OX1 2RL
United Kingdom
Email: tobias.graf@history.ox.ac.uk
Office hours
by appointment via email
Research Interests
- Relationships and entanglements between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe
- History of espionage and intelligence in the Early Modern period
- Religious conversion, especially in the context of integration and identity formation
- History of the Habsburg Empire
- History of Europe in the wider world
Completed Projects
- “Knowledge and Political Decision-Making in the Early Modern Period: Austrian–Habsburg Foreign Intelligence in the Late Sixteenth Century,” Department of History, Heidelberg University, Germany, with financial support from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, supervised by Prof. Dr. Susan Richter
- “Dynamic Asymmetries in Transcultural Flows at the Intersection of Asia and Europe: The Case of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire,” Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” Heidelberg University, Germany