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Board of Directors
| Name | Specialisation | Research within the Cluster |
| Birgit Kellner | Tibetan and Buddhist Studies | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Philosophical discourse, debate narratives and religious identification in late medieval South Asia (ca.7th to 13th c. CE) |
| Tijana Krstić | Ottoman Studies | Case Study: Political and Religious Imagination of the Ottoman Slavs in the Confessional Age Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Entangled Histories of Community- and Confession-Building in the Early Modern Ottoman period |
| Melanie Malzahn | Linguistics | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Entangled Literacies and Narrative Performance in Ancient Eurasia |
| Walter Pohl | Comparative Medieval History | Case Study: Empires and the Eurasian Steppe: Shifting Borderlands Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Emergence of New Strategies of Identification in the Christianisation of Europe Case Study: Dealing with Diversity in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe Case Study: Resilient Identities and Distinctions in Eurasian comparison |
| Claudia Rapp | Byzantine Studies | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: the Outside Perspective Case Study: Orthodox Christianity as a Conduit for the Dissemination and Adaptation of Religious Texts across Linguistic Traditions |
| Robert Rollinger | Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies | Case Study: Reconsidering the borderlands of the Achaemenid Persian empire Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Ancient Near Eastern Mental Maps, Greek Geographies, and the Conceptualisation of Afro-Eurasia |
| Oliver Schmitt | Eastern European History | Case Study: Agencies and Space in Imperial Borderlands: Ottoman Transformation of the Balkans (14th-16th Century) |
Key Researchers
Name | Specialisation | Research within the Cluster |
Balkan History | Case Study: Agencies and Space in Imperial Borderlands: Ottoman Transformation of the Balkans (14th-16th Century) Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Bridging Two Worlds. Multilayered Spatial Analysis of the Population in Western Asia Minor and the Balkans during the Ottoman Period | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Printing Knowledge, Circulating Ideas: Making Modernities in Early 20th Century Vernacular Newspapers from Central Asia | |
| Case Study: The Growth of Eurasian Empires and the Imperial Radius of Action: Analyzing Imperial Dynamics | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Impact on Eurasian Worldviews | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: From Samarkand to Bengal: Entangled Scribal Histories in Pre-modern Central Asia | |
| Case Study: Diplomacy Within and Between Empires: Russian-Ottoman Entanglements in the Age of Peter the Great | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The mito cluster Case Study: Increasing the visibility of non-anglophone voices in DH Case Study: The (in)effectiveness of propaganda in the transnational representation of Japan and its colonies | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Buddhist Philosophy from India to Tibet: the Agency of Change | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Dabanniepanjing 大般涅槃經: a lengthy fifth-century Chinese Buddhist | |
Islamic Studies | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Hanafi jurisprudence (fiqh) in Western, Central and South Asia, 6th/12th-9th/15th centuries | |
| Case Study: Silver Circulation from Anatolia across Mesopotamia into Central Asia and China from the 2nd Millennium BCE until about 200 CE: Structures and Agents | |
Mediterranean Archaeology | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Body-Forming between Asianism and the Classical Ideal | |
Social, economic and consumer history of the Ottoman Empire and Türkiye | Case Study: Nature, Environments and Societies in Ottoman and Turkish sources Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Entangled Scripts, Languages, and Literatures: The Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitharist Congregation in Vienna | |
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Claiming the Classical | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Fictionalising Asia: Stereotyped Notions of "Oriental" Religions in Ancient Western Sources | |
Case Study: Indic transregional practices of power and religion in frontier regions Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Trans-Himalayan Corridors as a Cultural Bridge between the Indo- and Sinosphere Case Study: Entangled Scribal Histories: Kathmandu Valley as a Transregional Hub for Manuscript Production and Trade Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: External religious signs and their use in the construction and politics of religious identity | ||
Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Russian Perceptions of Europe and Asia | ||
Case Study: Metropolitan hotspots of inter-imperial communication: Material evidence from China Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Habsburgs and Asia: Projections of China in the 18th century | ||
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Communication in multilingual empires - the case of Egypt | ||
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Ancient Christian Communities in South India - Manuscripts and Inscriptions | ||
Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Historiographies of Early Modern Southeastern Europe, 16th to the 18th centuries' | ||
Case Study: Climate and socio-economic change between the global and the local in the longue durée | ||
Case Study: EurAsian Central Europe - between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires | ||
Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Constructing religious identities in the Tibetosphere: monasticism, yogic cultures, and institutional networks (late 14th–to early 17th century CE) | ||
Case Study: The Idea of Empire and the Slavs, 860-1989 Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Multilingualism and Cultural Translation in Central and Eastern Europe 1300-1700 Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Religious identifications in Christian Europe and in Islamic countries Case Study: The True Believer - Dynamics of Religious Identification in Central/Eastern Europe, 14th-18th century | ||
Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Muslimness under Non-Islamic Rule in Central Eurasia, 16th Century to teh Present | ||
Case Study: Through the Lens of Coercion, Reassessing Medieval Labour and Power Relations | ||
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Cultural Brokerage in Multilingual Societies: Entangled Biographies of Persianate Muslim Dragoman-Diplomats (19th/early 20th Centuries) | ||
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Cities as Multi-lingual Communities: from Small Towns to Imperial Capitals | ||
Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Habsburg Monarchy and its Perceptions of Japan | ||
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Migration and competing power structures in the Eurasian Early Middle Ages Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Cross-reading Narratives of Origins in early Medieval Eurasia |
Ordinary Members
| Name | Specialisation | Research within the Cluster |
| Case Study: A carved history. Reappraising material culture from early Islamic Iran | |
Byzantine Studies, Balkan History | ||
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: "Writing EurAsia" Case Study: Mongolia Cluster | |
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| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: On the history of mantra repetition practices and the role they played in the formation of religious and social identity | |
Syriac Studies | ||
Syriac Studies / Middle Eastern Studies / Manuscript Studies / History of Medicine. | ||
Ottoman Studies | Case Study: Ottoman Borderlands and Their Socio-Political Elites Case Study: Entangled Records of the Past: Archival Repositories of Christian Monastic Communities under Ottoman Rule | |
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Processes of identity formation, ethnic terminology, geographical knowledge, master narratives | ||
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Early Modern History/Ottoman Studies | ||
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| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Religious Reforms of Mid-17th Century in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe | |
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Early China | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Scribal culture and literary forms of arguments in early Chinese technical manuscripts | |
| Case Study: The Origin of the Division into Continents | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Anantānandagiri’s Śaṅkaravijaya: or, How to Deal with Religious Plurality Case Study: dvayamantra, taking refuge, branding, ūrdhvapuṇḍras. On a “Śrīvaiṣṇava” section in the Padmapurāṇa Uttarakhaṇḍa Case Study: Strategies of Identification and Distinction in Medieval South India | |
Armenologist and Historian of Eastern Christian Book Cultures | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: People, Books, and Ideas on the Move: Non-Greek Perspectives on Mobility in Byzantium, 10th - 12th C | |
Sasanian History, late antique Eurasia, Global History | Case Study: The Late Sasanian Economic Growth, 484-642 | |
Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Multilingualism in Venetian Dalmatia Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Early Modern Eastern Balkans and 'Ottoman Catholicsim': Translocal Catholic communities in the Ottoman Empire (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) | ||
Achaemenid and Elamite Studies | ||
| Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Unintentional Hereticalisation: Importing Dissident Ideas to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the Christianisation and Local Pagan and Orthodox Responses to it in the proto-Reformation era | |
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Byzantine Studies, Caucasus Studies, Eastern (Orthodox) Christianity | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Westward Gazes on Eastern Rome: South Caucasus Perspectives on Byzantine Mobility | |
| Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Culture and Cultural Politics in Pahlavi Iran | |
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| Name | Specialisation | Research within the Cluster |
| Milad Abedi | Contact Linguistics in Ancient Iran, Pahlavi Papyri | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The “Sasanian Track”. Authority, loanwords, and administrative practices in Pahlavi Papyri |
| Ilia Afanasev | Mobility and Migration | Node 2: Communication and Mobility |
| Vitus Angermeier | South Asian Studies / History of Medicine | |
| András Barati | Iranian Studies, Persian Diplomatics | Node 2: Communication and Mobility |
| Tashi Bhutia | Tibetan and Buddhist Studies | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Life and Contribution of the Seventh Karmapa: Leadership and Scholarship in Tibetan Buddhism |
| Aliosha Bielenberg | Byzantine Studies / Ottoman Studies / History of Cyprus | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Cyprus and the Politics of Plurality |
| Jacopo Bruno | Central Asian Archaeology / Material Culture Studies | Case Study: A tale of pots and people. An unwritten material history of everyday life in the Bukhara Oasis during the long first millennium. |
| Valentina Cambruzzi | Node 1: Geographies of Power | |
| Kaplan Cankat | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Saranya Chandran | Node 1: Geographies of Power | |
| Constanza Cordoni | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Anna Dolganov | Ancient History, Papyrology, AI and Digital Humanities | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Public Archives in Roman Egypt: Roman Archiving and Archival Agency Case Study: Decoding Antiquity: Unlocking the Hidden Archives of the Mediterranean Case Study: The First Multimodal LLM for Ancient Greek |
| Daniel Edelhofer | ||
| Tünde Fegyvári-Komori | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: A Network of Consumption: The Distribution of Oriental Decorative Ceramics in Hungary and the Balkans during the Ottoman Period | |
| Hannes Fellner | Historical Linguistics / Silk Road Studies | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Node 3: Identities and Religions TWG5: Manuscript Studies in a Eurasian Context |
| Marco Ferrante | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Boris Fonarkov | Early Modern Muscovy, Cultural & Diplomatic History | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Muscovy's Search for China: Diplomatic and Cultural Entanglements in Muscoy's Eurasian Frontier, 1607-1689 |
| Jürgen Fuchsbauer | ||
| János Galamb | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Mona Garloff | ||
| Mariia Golovina | Early Modern Russia, Early Modern Venice, Diplomatic History | Node 3: Identities and Religions |
| Jehan Hillen | Node 1: Geographies of Power | |
| Dietlind Hüchtker | ||
| Onur Inal | Ottoman Empire, environmental history, military history | Case Study: DANFront: An Environmental History of the Early-Modern Ottoman Military Frontier in the Middle and Lower Danube |
| Polina Ivanova | Node 1: Geographie of Power | |
| Yue Ji | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The Tangut manuscripts of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā | |
| Amelie Jochmus | Mediterranean Archaeology | Node 1: Geographie of Power |
| Emy Merin Joy | Node 2: Communication and Mobility | |
| Yuka Kadoi | Art History / Architectural History | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Reach and Limits of Silk Roads: Reinventing the Visual and Material Heritage of Eurasia
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| Nazerke Kanatbekova | Nuclear cultural heritage / Nation-building | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Kazakhstan's Nuclear Past: From Testing Grounds to Cultural Heritage |
| Cankat Kaplan | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Sina Kazemirashid | Ancient History / Spatial Perception / Imperial Ideology in Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism / Digital Humanities | |
| Gunhyuk Lee | Late Antique and Byzantine Egypt / Papyrology / Late Antique Christianity / Religious Donation | |
| Channa Li | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Zhouyang Ma | Node 2: Communication and Mobility | |
| Safa Mahmoudian | Islamic Art and Architecture; Garden and Palace Architecture; Cultural Transfer | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Travelling Gardens: Palace Gardens and Cultural Interactions between Khorasan and Lower Mesopotamia, 8th–12th C. |
| Georgi Mitov | Byzantine Studies, Palaeoslavonic Studies | Node 2: Communication and Mobility |
| Calahan Morse | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Leonid Motz | Node 2: Communication and Mobility | |
| Pongsit Pangsrivongse | Sanskrit Studies | Node 3: Identities and Religions |
| Adrian C. Pirtea | Byzantine Studies, Eastern Christian Studies, Christianity and Manichaeism in Central Asia | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Christian Liturgical Manuscripts as ‘Sites’ of Collective Memory from Byzantine Antioch to Central Asia |
| Anna Pronina | Soviet Central Asia, Cultural History, Arts and Architecture | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Heritage and Empire: Negotiating Cultural Production in Soviet Uzbekistan (1930s-1940s) |
| Giulia Rossetto | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Multilingual liturgical books at the Library of Saint Catherine's (Sinai) | |
| Monika Sailer | Node 3: Identities and Religions | |
| Charles Shaw | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: When Mukhamed Became Misha: Central Asia in World War II | |
| Rustam Shukurov | ||
| Alexander Steiner | Ancient Near Eastern Studies Linguistics | Case Study: Metaphorical Concepts of Absolute Space in the Ancient Near East and Central Asia |
| Clemens Steinwender | Case Study: At the Boundary of Empires. Sasanian imperial Borderlands, their Networks and the Emergence of new power structures | |
| Rafal Stepien | Buddhist Philosophy | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Buddhist Philosophy between India and China |
| Elli Stogiannou | ||
| Kristina Stöckl | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Russia's global traditionalism and the heritage of Neo-Byzantinism: Uses of the past in contemporary Russian identity constructions | |
| Raphael Szeider | Node 1: Geographies of Power | |
| Kata Tóth | Case Study: Des Carpates traversées aux Carpates vécues. A History of the Southern and Eastern Carpathians from the 15th to the 17th Century | |
| Eldad Voremberg | ||
| Maksim Vyzhlakov | Historical Linguistics & Silk Road Studies | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The Transmission and Transformation of Texts in the Tarim Basin: a corpus approach (4TB) |
| Sandra Wabnitz | Comparative Medieval History, Cultural History | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Horse Lords of the Eurasian Steppe: A Comparison of Latin, Greek, and Chinese Accounts on Steppe Peoples (4th-9th c.) |
| Carsten L. Wilke | ||
| Jack Wilson | Case Study: The Golden Horde’s First ‘Time of Troubles,’: Political, Demographic and Environmental Crisis in the Jochid Ulus after the ‘Second Mongol Invasions’ of Hungary and Poland, 1280-1310 | |
| Brett Wilson | ||
| Hakan Yerebakan | ||
| Patrick Zeitlhuber | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: “Linguistic Distances and Similarities of Old and Middle Indo-Aryan Varieties – The Application of Dialectometric and Quantitative Approaches to Historical Languages” | |
| Guglielmo Zucconi | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: The production of encyclopaedic texts in neo-Chinggisid Central Asia (1500-1747) |
Fellowships
| Name | Specialisation | Research within the Cluster |
| Tuğce Atik | Late Ottoman & Balkan History, National Identity Building, Print Culture & Early Vernacular Bulgarian Publishing, Cultural and Political Nationalism | |
| Eva-Marie Dubuisson | Linguistic Anthropology of Central Eurasia | |
| Yue Minjing | Material and Culture of the Hellenistic Period and the Silk Road |
Scientific Advisory Board
| Michal Biran |
| Nicola Di Cosmo |
| Jeroen Duindam |
| Monica Juneja |
| Diana Mishkova |
| Rahim Shayegan |
Coordinators
| Rita Garstenauer | Scientific Project Manager | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Philipp Abel-Dunner | Project Manager | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Jeanette Kilicci | Project Coordinator | University of Vienna |
| Alexander Sasonow | Project Assistant and Website Operator | University of Vienna |
| Christoph Berlinger | Project Assistant and Social Media Assistant | University of Vienna |
| Astrid Rief | Project Coordinator | University of Innsbruck |
| Alex Stein | Social Media Coordinator | University of Innsbruck |
Social Media Team
| Alex Stein | Social Media Coordinator | University of Innsbruck |
| Hanna Lechner | Social Media Assistant | University of Innsbruck |
| Parissa Abdolvahab | Social Media Assistant | University of Vienna |