Biography

Sundar Henny is a historian of early modern Europe. He received his PhD from the University of Basel in 2012. In the past he has worked on ego-documents, conjectural history, and cross-cultural encounters at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem during the 16th century. His current project focuses on Mediterranean shipboard communities. He was awarded two major research projects ("Early Postdoc Mobility" and "Ambizione") by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Cambridge, Haifa, and Princeton and a Year Fellow at Harvard University's Villa I Tatti in Florence. His work has appeared in Intellectual History Review, Mediterranean Historical Review, and Renaissance Quarterly.