| The Sultan’s Renegades: Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575-1610 Tobias P. Graf is a Research Associate in Early Modern History at Heidelberg University and an Associate Member of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context". He read history at the University of Cambridge before transferring to Heidelberg, where he was part of an interdisciplinary research group which investigated cultural exchanges between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Graf has a profound interest in transregional entanglements within and beyond the boundaries of the European continent. He is currently working on a study of Austrian-Habsburg foreign intelligence during the reign of Emperor Maximilian II. |