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Robyn Dora Radway is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at Central European University, with affiliations in the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies and Undergraduate Studies. She specializes in the interconnected histories of the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires from 1450 to 1800, focusing on administrative institutions, scribal practices, book cultures, and material culture.
Her research integrates art history with primary-source-based historical methods, drawing from both Continental and Anglo-American traditions. She has published extensively on costume books, arms and armor, dress and identity, Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy, and the circulation of information. Her 2023 monograph, Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople, explores identity and social networks through friendship albums, combining archival sources with digital humanities tools. She is currently a Key Researcher in the FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence, EurAsian Transformations, and is working on a new project reconstructing scribal practices in Ottoman Hungary.
Her recent publications span topics such as multilingualism, cartography, viniculture, and the reinterpretation of books and buildings after conquest. These works reflect her interest in layered sovereignty, deterritorialization, and imperial belonging, often employing network analysis and digital methodologies.
- Indiana University Press, 2023
- Gerda Henkel Stiftung, 2018–19
- Institute for Advanced Study at CEU, 2017–18
Robyn Dora Radway supervises BA, MA, and PhD students, with current PhD candidates including Dmitry Zharov, Jonas Czaika, and Zsofia Csilla Nadai. She has advised numerous MA theses on topics ranging from Jesuit education to imperial memory and interspecies communication. She teaches courses on Habsburg history, Ottoman borderlands, book history, material culture, and digital humanities, including a collaborative course with the Department of Data and Network Science.
She maintains strong ties with international and local museums and is actively involved in academic events, such as book launches and research seminars on imperial networks and soldier-scholars.
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