Research team
Expertise
I am a historian of the early modern period. I have specialized in political and social history: My first book combines New Kinship Studies and political history to understand monarchical rulership. My current project focuses on the making of invalids in the Habsburg monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I explore how the figure of the “invalid” was made and negotiated by different political actors and institutions and I situate the phenomenon in the conceptual transformations of work, the body, war and the state. I thus have expertise in the history of the body and gender, in kinship studies, and in the history of dis/ability, poverty and military labour.