Lena Sadovski is APART-GSK-Fellow in the research unit Balkan Studies and member of the Young Academy.
Lena Sadovski studied history and romance philology at the University of Vienna, where she was University assistant (pre-doc) at the Institute for Eastern European History (2019-2023) and received her PhD (summa cum laude) in April 2023 with a thesis on the social structures of the Dalmatian town Split between Venetian dominion and Ottoman menace (1479-1525), supported by a DOC-fellowship of the ÖAW and a Wrap-up-scholarship of the University of Vienna. She was student assistant and then visiting researcher at the Institute for Medieval Research of the ÖAW (2026-2024) and visiting post-doc at the Institute for Area Studies of Leiden University/Netherlands (2023). Post-Doc-Track-Fellow (2024) and since February 2025 APART-GSK-Fellow with a habilitation project on Catholicism in Ottoman Bulgaria in the 17th and 18th century. Visiting researcher at the Centre for Religious Studies of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2025) and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (2025/26). She received the Appreciation Award (Würdigungspreis) of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (2018) and the Anniversary Prize (Jubiläumspreis) of the Böhlau Verlag Vienna (2023). Since 2026 she is a member of the Young Academy of the ÖAW and holder of the national Italian habilitation as professore associato in the fields “Medieval History” and “Early Modern History”.
Period: Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Area: South-Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean space, Venice and the Venetian Maritime Empire, Habsburg Monarchy
Topics: history of religion, confessions, multilingualism and administration; Jewish and Women’s history; borderlands and migration; historical anthropology and processes of identity and community building; social, micro and global history; history of diplomacy and international relations
