Stephan Sander-Faes is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Bergen, Norway. He received my Ph.D. from the University of Graz, Austria, in 2011 and obtained the Habilitation in Early Modern and Modern History from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 2018. Before moving to Scandinavia in 2020, he taught for ten years at the history departments at the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg, as well as held the István Deák Visiting Professorship in East Central European Studies at Columbia University in 2018. His research focuses on post-medieval Central and Eastern Europe (c. 1350-1850), in particular on social and economic history, as well as on state transformation. Personal website. Find me on LinkedIn, Academia.edu, and ORCID.