An Interview with Daniela Hacke

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Daniela Hacke is Professor of Early Modern History at the Free University of Berlin. She has a PhD from Cambridge (GB) and a habilitation from Zurich University (CH). Her research interests focus on the history of Italian and European Renaissance culture, the cultural history of politics (Kulturgeschichte des Politischen), the history of religious co-existence, gender history, visual history, and, at present, sensory history and the history of emotions in cultural encounters. She has wider interests in global history and methodological questions and is associate member at the Graduate School Global Intellectual History at the Free University of Berlin. She was involved in international projects such as “Cause matrimoniali come fonte storica” (Istituto Italo-Germanico in Trento) and the European Science Foundation Project “Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400–1700”. She is currently a member of the scientific committee of the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani /Deutsches Studienzentrum von Venedig and a member of the Dahlem Humanities Center at the Free University of Berlin. Daniela Hacke founded the series Kulturgeschichten. Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit and has published extensively on the cultural history of early modern Europe. Her main publications include Women, Sex and Marriage in Early Modern Venice (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), as editor, Frauen in der Stadt. Selbstzeugnisse des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts (Sigmaringen: JanThorbecke Verlag, 2004) and Moderata Fonte, Das Verdienst der Frauen (München: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2001). Her most recent books are Konfession und Kommunikation. Religiöse Koexistenz und Politik in der Alten Eidgenossenschaft–Die Grafschaft Baden, 1531–1712 (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2017) and (together with Paul Musselwhite) Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America (Leiden: Brill 2017).