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