Jonathan Steuer M.St.
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  • CV

    Since August 2024: Research assistant and doctoral candidate with Prof. Dr. André Krischer in subproject 7 - Urban Xenocracy as Interactive Statebuilding: Madras 1639-1746

    October 2023 - June 2024: Master's degree in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford (“Distinction”), funded by scholarships from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the German Academic Exchange Service (thesis: “Of archival monuments, urban spaces, and female offenders: A comparative analysis of petty crime in seventeenth-century Bristol and Frankfurt am Main”; for this 1st place in the postgraduate essay competition of the German History Society of the United Kingdom)

    July 2023: Participation in the summer school “Unity and Diversity in Law” of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg in Münster

    July 2022 - September 2023: Student assistant at the Chair of Early Modern History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

    September 2021 - April 2022: ERASMUS study visit at Trinity College Dublin

    October 2019 - September 2023: Member of the history student council
    October 2019 - July 2023: Bachelor's degree in History and Catholic Theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, funded by scholarships from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Bischöflichen Studienförderung Cusanuswerk (thesis: “Die Praxis der ‘Erledigung’. The problem of release from prison in Frankfurt petitions of the 17th century”

  • Research focus

    • Early modern urban history
    • English colonial history in Asia (17th and 18th centuries)
    • Supplication and petition systems
    • Urban crime, in particular 'petty crime' and its sanctioning