Institute of Modern History

Dr. Tobias P. Graf

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Professional Experience

since Oct. 2017Research Associate in the ERC-funded project "Stories of Survival. Recovering the Connected Histories of Eastern Christianity in the Early Modern World" (PI: Dr. John-Paul Ghobrial), Faculty of History, University of Oxford, UK
2016-2017Assistant Professor under Prof. Dr. Renate Dürr, Institute of Modern History, University of Tübingen
2012-2017Associate member of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University, Germany
2014-2016Postdoc in the Department of History, Heidelberg University, Germany
2014PhD in Medieval and Modern History at Heidelberg University, Germany; dissertation title: “‘I Am Still Yours’: Christian-European ‘Renegades’ in the Ottoman Elite during the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries”; adviser: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen (DHI Paris/Heidelberg); second examiner: Dr. Felix Konrad (Basel)
2012-2013Visiting student at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, UK and Wolfson College, Cambridge; adviser: Dr. William O’Reilly (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
2009-2012Researcher in the sub-project A7 “Dynamic Asymmetries in Transcultural Flows at the Intersection of Asia and Europe: The Case of the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University, Germany
2007-2008Master of Philosophy in Early Modern History, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, UK; title of master’s thesis: “Renegades to the Ottoman Empire and their Impact in the Early Modern Period,” supervised by Dr. Kate Fleet (Susan Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, Cambridge) and Scott Mandelbrote (Peterhouse, Cambridge)
2003-2007BA Honours in History, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK

Scholarships and Awards:

Since 2015Research scholarship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the research project “Knowledge and Political Decision-Making in the Early Modern Period: Austrian-Habsburg Foreign Intelligence in the Late Sixteenth Century” (currently on hold)
2014Postdoc fellowship from the Research Council in Field of Focus 3 “Cultural Dynamics in Globalized Worlds” at Heidelberg University, Germany
2009-2013Doctoral scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
2009PhD scholarship from the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University, Germany
2007-2008Robert Owen Bishop Scholarship, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, UK