Dr. Ian Foss Hathaway

Fellow during the winter term 2020/21

Ian holds a doctorate in History and Renaissance Studies from Yale University, a bachelor and master's degree from the University of Pavia, and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute for the academic year 2019-2020. His work thus far has explored issues of mobility, protection, diplomacy, and state-building in the early modern Mediterranean from a comparative and connected perspective. His research interests focus on several Mediterranean polities, including the Republic of Venice, the Grand Duchy of Florence, the Order of St. John ofRhodes and Malta, the Republic of Ragusa/Dubrovnik, and the Ottoman Empire.

During his time as a graduate student, Ian has developed an interest in teaching global connected and comparative history. He has worked as a teaching assistant for several classes in this field (The World Circa 1000; The World Circa 1500) and is passionate about discussing topics such ascross-cultural trade, cultural encounters, conquest, violence, as well as nascent Orientalism in theMedieval and early modern periods.

As a Fellow at LMU's Center for Global History, Ian plans to start laying the theoretical and empirical foundations for a new global history project tentatively titled "Power, Paperwork, and Disease: A Comparative Approach to Early Modern Administrative Cultures." Ian's goal is to investigate questions of divergence in early modern administrative and chancery cultures, particularly as related to public health and disease control in the seventeenth century. During his stay in Munich, Ian will focus on conducting preliminary investigations of Ottoman and Venetian sources, with hopes of soon expanding to materials from England and the Hapsburg Empire.