Stefan Hanß

is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester

Dr. Stefan Hanß is Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on material culture and cultural encounters in the early modern period. Hanß has widely published on the Battle of Lepanto, Mediterranean slavery, Veneto-Ottoman diplomacy, and Ottoman language-learning, as well as on early modern featherworkers, concepts of time/timing, and the history of hair. His research has been published in journals as Past & Present, History Workshop Journal and The Historical Journal. His research explores new trajectories in material culture studies such as the usage of digital microscopes or remaking experiments. In 2019 and 2020, Hanß has been awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award as well as a Philip Leverhulme Prize in History. His current research is devoted to the history of hair in the Habsburg world.