Robyn D Radway

She is a historian of Habsburg Central Europe and its imperial entanglements across internal and external borders (1450–1800). She specializes in the study of administrative institutions, scribal practices, book cultures, military conflicts, and material culture. She has published articles and book chapters on costume books, arms and armor, dress and identity, Habsburg–Ottoman diplomacy, Ottoman Hungary, and the circulation of information on city streets and at imperial courts. She is currently a Key Researcher in the FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations. She has also worked in several international and local museums, with which she continues to maintain strong ties.

In both teaching and research, she seeks to combine perspectives from art history with a primary-source-based historical method rooted in both Continental and Anglo-American traditions.