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Robyn Dora Radway

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Associate Professor of Historical Studies @historicalstudies.bsky.social at Central European University (Vienna) Early Modernist | Habsburg and Ottoman, author of Portraits of Empires

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Aug 20

I am thrilled to share that Portraits of Empires won the Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize! Read more here:

Robyn Dora Radway wins the 2025 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize

Awarded biennially, the CAS Book Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship published in North America on Austrian, Habsburg, as well as Central and Eastern European Studies

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · 17h

New book review out of #portraitsofempires in The Art Bulletin! Thanks go to Nebahat Avcıoğlu for the deep engagement!

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Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople, by Robyn Dora Radway

Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 107, No. 2, 2025)

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · 5d

Having a marvelous and inspiring workshop on Melchior Lorch in Copenhagen. Being able to handle drawings, prints, and manuscripts while you talk about open problems and questions with a group of experts is magical.

Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · 14d

On Friday I will be speaking at the Deutsches Historisches Museum about my research on alba amicorum and early modern Germanness in Constantinople.

www.dhm.de/programm/tag...

Varieties of Germany. Andere Perspektiven - Deutsches Historisches Museum

7. Symposium in der Reihe „Historische Urteilskraft”, 26. September 2025, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Aug 20

I am thrilled to share that Portraits of Empires won the Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize! Read more here:

Robyn Dora Radway wins the 2025 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize

Awarded biennially, the CAS Book Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship published in North America on Austrian, Habsburg, as well as Central and Eastern European Studies

cla.umn.edu

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jan 18

This is highly useful if you work with #earlymodern books of all kinds: a compiled and explained set of contemporary abbreviations. From apothecaries' weights to signs for half moon moments in almanacs. Boost, #bookhistory and #skystorians looking for abbreviations of the past. 🗃️

The "Falttafel" of 1782 is part of a book titled "Sammlung verschiedener nützlicher Lesübungen..." (VD18 12041491-001), and can be found here between pp. 151 and 152: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:UBA-HSB-00000BAV80014690

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Jul 16

I am giving a lecture tomorrow (July 17) in Münster at 18:15 and it will be on Zoom too! If you are interested here is the link!

A bit on the book, and pointing towards the new project!

André Krischer @andrekrischer.bsky.social · Jul 15

The DFG Research Group Xenocracy is looking forward to the lecture by @robyndoraradway.bsky.social on ‘Albums of Empire’ on 17 July, 18:15 @uni-muenster.de. Participation via Zoom possible: uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/66014051732

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Margarete Tiessen @mxtiessen.bsky.social · May 5

This book is (finally) completed and coming out very soon! 🥰🥰 A very special project indeed, and I am so grateful to the wonderful contributors, to Charlotte and Anita, to our editor Graham Nelson and - not least - to Jo Whaley whose scholarship and teaching brought us all together 🥳🙌🍾

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Apr 2

Another day, another museum visit. Another discussion of magnificent objects

Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Mar 16

Wolf Huber. 😍

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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · Mar 4

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens

Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!

www.uu.nl

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Mar 4

Painted on stone (and how cool is that?) so that stony sky swirls naturally over triumph of Cupid. Clever work by Hans von Aachen, whose day is today.

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Mar 4

Today I am taking my students to my favorite museum: Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer #KHM. Wearable sculptures recalling the physical presence of absent owners, performing masculinity in commissions that were part of a premodern flex culture. But more importantly, just stunning craftsmanship! #armsandarmor

Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Mar 3

CfP: The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)
Vienna - March, 19-20 2026. www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/...

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André Krischer @andrekrischer.bsky.social · Feb 28

Full Professorship (W 3) for Modern History with a focus on gender history and historical culture (Univ. Freiburg) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Feb 28

Today is my favorite teaching day of the semester in The Politics of Representation: Art and its Histories @historicalstudies.bsky.social : critical race art history, critical cataloging, and intersectional approaches. Fortunate to have a wealth of fantastic new scholarship to work from!

Excerpt of Cecile Fromont's brilliant article

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Feb 14

Call for papers is still active for the workshop in Innsbruck: #EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections in Innsbruck June 5 and 6, 2025. if you are a few days late I am happy to still have a look and see if we can make it work ☺️

archivespublishing.com/2025/01/30/c...

CFP: EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections

EurAsian Materials in Central European Collections (Innsbruck, 5 and 6 June 2025). Traditional categories essential to cataloguing and describing objects (such as date, maker, and geogra…

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Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social · Jan 26

So this is really cool: a stamp impression from the library of the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din (d. 1318). It reads “pious endowment [waqf] of the Rashidiyya library,” & it may have been inspired by Chinese prints/stamps. Stamped waqf notices are totally unheard of for this time!

Detail from an Arabic-language manuscript showing a waqf stamp impression from the library of Rashid al-Din

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Jan 28

It is always a pleasure to open an author copy, though I never read beyond the first sentence for fear of catching the inevitable mistake... 😏

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · Jan 21

Birthright citizenship is on the lips and minds of many, given yesterday’s “executive order.” Recommend Martha Jones’s book to those seeking to inform themselves about the context of this concept.

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Austrian History Yearbook (AHY) @ahy-history.bsky.social · Jan 15

In preparation for the online publication of new AHY articles to be featured in our upcoming 2025 edition, revisit #AHY2024

Explore gendered perspectives on dynastic politics, new approaches to pre-modern violence, and innovative work on food and migration crises!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Latest issue | Austrian History Yearbook | Cambridge Core

Austrian History Yearbook

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · Jan 10

Södertörn University in Stockholm has advertised four PhD positions in historical studies with the Baltic and East European Graduate School, and four more in critical and cultural theory.

Applications close 13 February 2025

#AcademicSky #PhD #jobs #skystorians

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Välkommen att söka anställning vid Södertörns högskola! Hos oss blandas ämnen, perspektiv, människor och erfarenheter. Här finns de nyfikna och de ifrågasättande. De som söker oväntade kombinationer, ...

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Jan 9

Delightful new review out about my monograph, #PortraitsofEmpires in the Journal of Early Modern History.

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Jan 9

Do you have students looking for a funded MA or PhD in historical studies? Encourage them to apply to CEU! Deadline for applications is 2025 February 4! historicalstudies.ceu.edu/admissions

Admissions | Department of Historical Studies

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Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Jan 2

Happy New Year from Tuscany!

Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social · Dec 31

Do you have any students in Museum Studies? We have scholarships available for our great 2-year MA!

Department of Historical Studies at CEU @historicalstudies.bsky.social · Dec 27

Scholarships for our MA in Museum Studies, co-organised with Vienna's Wien Museum. Application deadline: February 4

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLA411/m...

MA in Museum Studies at Central European University

Discover MA in Museum Studies jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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