Magdalena Gärtner

Magdalena Gärtner supports the team with administrative work, literature research and the transcription of marriage registers.
Magdalena is a history master’s student at the University of Vienna, where she recently completed her BA in history.
Her main interests are ancient history and the Byzantine Empire, as well as the social history of eighteenth-century Austria.

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Senta Herkle

Senta Herkle examines the trade relations between southern Germany and Italy along the Swiss routes, in particular through a sample of waybills and business letters. These form the basis for research into the type and volume of goods, their transfer, as well as the transport and forwarding business.
Senta completed her PhD at the University of Stuttgart with a study of the weavers’ guild in Ulm in the eighteenth century. Her main research interests include the history of early modern trade, guilds, crafts and (imperial) cities. In her second book, she analyses the processes of transformation around 1800 in the former territories of Austria Anterior in southern Germany and Switzerland.

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Christof Jeggle

Christof Jeggle researches transportation and infrastructure and their financing along the Tyrolean routes based on administrative source material.
Christof completed his PhD at the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on the early modern linen trade in Münster/Westphalia.
He is an economic and social historian of the pre-industrial period. He has worked as a researcher in various research projects at the Free University of Berlin and the universities of Freiburg, Bamberg, Paris Sorbonne-Pantheon, Würzburg and Basel: on Savoy merchants, markets in transalpine trade and on economic privileges, trade in Italian foodstuffs, commercial jurisdiction and the Basler Avis-Blatt.

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Margareth Lanzinger

Margareth studies innkeeper families and material culture in the Vinschgau/Val Venosta region and transportation on the Etsch/Adige River.
She is a professor of economic and social history from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Her doctoral thesis was on marriage and inheritance with a microhistorical approach. She has written her second book on kinship marriages and co-authored two works on marriage contracts and on the construction of the heroine.
Her research focuses on marriage, kinship, wealth, logistics, infrastructure and materiality. She uses approaches from microhistory, historical anthropology, gender history and new materialism.

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Sophie Oßberger

Sophie Oßberger examines marriage and kinship relations, as well as the wealth and material culture of innkeeper families in Klausen/Chiusa and the role that professional endogamy played in their networks.
Sophie completed both her BA and MA in (art) history at the University of Vienna. During her master’s degree, she spent an Erasmus semester at Trinity College, Dublin. Her master’s thesis examines the ways in which identity was defined and constructed in sumptuary laws through the use of cloth and jewelry.
Over the past few years, she has participated in a number of projects focusing on the inventarisation and digitisation of Austrian cultural heritage.

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Verena Radner

Verena Radner’s research focuses on influential innkeeper families in the south Tyrolean villages of Innichen and Niederdorf, both located on the main Alpine trade routes connecting cities and regions such as Trieste, Venice and southern Germany. She examines the marriage networks of these families and explores how inns functioned as “multipurpose hubs”, with a particular emphasis on gender roles and labour dynamics.
Verena completed both her BA and MA in History at the University of Vienna, graduating with honours. Her master´s thesis analysed court records concerning divorce and marriage annulment from a mid-nineteenth-century Upper Austrian court.

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Riccardo Rossi

Riccardo Rossi investigates the pass routes through the Swiss Alps, with a particular focus on the San Gottardo route and the southern section of the Spluga route. He will join the ERC team in 2025.
He is completing his PhD as part of the Atlantic Italies research project at the University of Zurich, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In addition to a period as a visiting student at the EUI in Florence, Riccardo has taught at the University of Zurich, where he held the position of assistant professor at Roberto Zaugg’s chair of Early Modern History.
Riccardo is an early modern historian specialising in consumption, migration and gender in the Alpine region. His research interests lie at the intersection of material culture, mobility and processes of global entanglement and disconnection.