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Dr.
Kata Tóth

was a Post-DocTrack-Fellow in the research unit Balkan Studies.

Brief Biography

Kata Tóth studied history in Novi Sad, Pisa and Vienna. She earned her PhD from the University of Vienna in February 2025 with a thesis on the social, economic and environmental history of the Southern and Eastern Carpathians from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries for which she received the Michael Mitterauer Award for Social, Cultural, and Economic History (2025). Between 2021 and 2026 she was a university assistant at the Department of East European History at the University of Vienna. She is an associated member of the Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations”. February and March 2026, she was a Post-DocTrack-Fellow in the Balkan Studies Research Unit with a habilitation project on the intelligence services of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Balkans (1800–1914).

Research Interests

Period: 14th–20th centuries;
Area: Southeastern Europe; Central Europe;
Topics: environmental history, historical mountain research, historical frontier/border studies, intelligence history, military history, diplomatic networks

Publications

  • Domesticating Wilderness. Mountain Monasteries in Medieval Wallachia and Moldavia, in: Mihailo St. Popović (ed.), Wilderness Revisited: Its Essence, Perception, Description and Image in Byzantium and Beyond. Studies in Historical Geography and Cultural Heritage 5 (Novi Sad: Akademska knjiga), 343–370 [forthcoming in spring 2026]
  • Oinking in the Mountains. Pigs and Pannage in the Principality of Transylvania (1541–1699), in: Animal History 2/1 (2026), 60–79, https://doi.org/10.1525/ah.2025.2709842
  • Für die Schafe abholzen oder für die Schweine stehen lassen? Waldnutzung in den Süd- und Ostkarpaten im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, in: Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione 34/2 (2025), 45–67;
  • Tatort in der Höhe. Schafdiebstähle und ihre Regelung in den frühneuzeitlichen Süd- und Ostkarpaten, in: Robert Rollinger – Andreas Rudigier – Michael Kasper – Kai Ruffing (eds.), “Gesetzlose” in den Bergen und die vertikalen Grenzen von Herrschaft. Montafoner Gipfeltreffen 6 (Wien: Böhlau 2025), 263–278, https://doi.org/10.7767/9783205222637.263
  • Invisible Mountains? The Eastern and Southern Carpathians and their Environmental History (Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries), in: Environment and History 31/3 (2025), 327–349, https://doi.org/10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903578
  • Erdélyiek vándorpásztorkodása Havasalföldön a 16–17. században, in: Századok 158/4 (2024), 609–638 | English translation: The Transylvanians’ Transhumance in Wallachia in the 16th and 17th Centuries, in: Revista Istorică 36/1–3 (2025), 127–156, https://doi.org/10.59277/RI.2025.1-3.36.05
  • Michael der Tapfere. Sein Bild in der ungarischsprachigen Historiographie des 17. Jahrhunderts, in: Südost-Forschungen 79 (2020), 305–340; https://doi.org/10.1515/sofo-2020-790116