Brief Biography

Studied History, French and Spanish Philology at the universities of Bochum (Germany) and Seville (Spain). Received her PhD in 2015 from the University of Graz (Austria) with a thesis on „(Foreign)Bodies. Stigmatizing New Christians in Early Modern Spain“. Academic positions: 2008–2012 research associate (pre-doc), Institute for History at the University of Bremen (Germany), 2012–2015 research associate (pre-doc), Centre for the History of Science at the University of Graz (Austria), 2015–2021 research associate (post-doc), Department of History at the University of Vienna (Austria). In 2019 she initiated the research group DisAbility Studies together with Julia Heinemann.

Research Interests

Period: Early Modern Period
Area: Spain, Habsburg Monarchy
Topics: Cultural History of the Political and Diplomacy, History of Science, DisAbility Studies, gender, bodies

Selected Publications

• co-edited with Stephan F. Mai and Christof Muigg, The Diplomatic Self in Early Modern Times. Negotiating – Narrating – Shaping Relations, Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2022
• co-edited with Julia Heinemann, Special Issue: DisAbility im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit / DisAbility in Early Modern Europe, in: Frühneuzeit-Info 31 (2020), 5–109
• co-author Julia Heinemann, Dealing with Definitional Voids. DisAbility in Early Modern Europe, in: Frühneuzeit-Info 31 (2020), 5–17
• (Fremd)Körper. Die Stigmatisierung der Neuchristen im Spanien der Frühen Neuzeit, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2020 (open access, PhD-thesis)
• English version: (Foreign) Bodies. Stigmatizing New Christians in Early Modern Spain, transl. by Henry Whittlesey Schroeder, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2020 (open access)
• Auf den Spuren der weiberhandlung. Gender, Space und Agency in der Casa de Austria im 16. Jahrhundert, in: L’Homme 30 (2019), 37–56
• co-edited with Dorothea Nolde, Special Issue: Der diplomatische Körper. Frühneuzeitliche Diplomatie als Körperpolitik, in: Frühneuzeit-Info 29 (2018), 5–115
• Frühneuzeitliche Politik und weibliche Melancholie. Kaiserin Maria von Spanien (1528–1603) im Spiegel diplomatischer Korrespondenz, in: Frühneuzeit-Info 29 (2018), 98–115