Tanja Zakrzewski, PhD

Research Associate

Postdoc project: Outcasts and Undesirables - Subcultures in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Dissertation: Conversos and Moriscos - Identity and Violence in Early Modern Granada

MA Military Studies: Military History and Military Sociology (University of Potsdam)

BA History and Jewish Studies (University of Potsdam and Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana, Spain)

Research Interests

• Piracy in the Atlantic World (16th/ 17th centuries)
• Early Modern concepts of honour and racism
• Construction of group identities in religious and ethnic minorities
• Violence and religion