| Name | Specialization | Research within the Cluster |
| Grigor Boykov | 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 | |
| Jeanine Dagyeli | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Printing Knowledge, Circulating Ideas: Making Modernities in Early 20th Century Vernacular Newspapers from Central Asia | |
| Bruno De Nicola | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: From Samarkand to Bengal: Entangled Scribal Histories in Pre-modern Central Asia | |
| Jan Hennings | Case Study: Diplomacy Within and Between Empires: Russian-Ottoman Entanglements in the Age of Peter the Great | |
| Pascale Hugon | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Buddhist Philosophy from India to Tibet: the Agency of Change | |
| Christopher V. Jones | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Dabanniepanjing 大般涅槃經: a lengthy fifth-century Chinese Buddhist | |
| Michael Jursa | 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 | |
| Erich Kistler | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Body-Forming between Asianism and the Classical Ideal | |
| Yavuz Köse | 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 | |
| Naoise Mac Sweeney | 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 | |
| Irene Madreiter | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Fictionalising Asia: Stereotyped Notions of "Oriental" Religions in Ancient Western Sources | |
| Nina Mirnig | 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 | |
| Wolfgang Mueller | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Russian Perceptions of Europe and Asia | |
| Lukas Nickel | 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 | |
| Bernhard Palme | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Communication in multilingual empires - the case of Egypt | |
| István Perczel | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Ancient Christian Communities in South India - Manuscripts and Inscriptions | |
| Konrad Petrovszky | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Historiographies of Early Modern Southeastern Europe, 16th to the 18th centuries' | |
| Johannes Preiser-Kapeller | Case Study: Climate and socio-economic change between the global and the local in the longue durée | |
| Robyn Dora Radway | Case Study: EurAsian Central Europe - between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires | |
| Jim Rheingans | 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) | |
| Pavlí-na Rychterová | 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 | |
| Paolo Sartori | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: Muslimness under Non-Islamic Rule in Central Eurasia, 16th Century to teh Present | |
| Juliane Schiel | Case Study: Through the Lens of Coercion, Reassessing Medieval Labour and Power Relations | |
| Florian Schwarz | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Cultural Brokerage in Multilingual Societies: Entangled Biographies of Persianate Muslim Dragoman-Diplomats (19th/early 20th Centuries) | |
| Katalin Szende | Node 2: Communication and Mobility Case Study: Cities as Multi-lingual Communities: from Small Towns to Imperial Capitals | |
| Ulrike Tanzer | Node 3: Identities and Religions Case Study: The Habsburg Monarchy and its Perceptions of Japan | |
| Daniel Ziemann | 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 |