Stephan Sander-Faes is a historian specializing in early modern and modern European civilization, with particular emphasis on the Mediterranean, Central, and Eastern Europe. His research explores social and economic history, urban-rural dynamics, everyday life, crime, and the administrative evolution of the Habsburg Monarchy. He integrates qualitative archival research with quantitative analysis and has extensive palaeographic experience in both Mediterranean and Central European manuscript traditions. His work is grounded in a comparative, transnational approach informed by academic experience across Switzerland and the United States.

Educated at the Universities of Vienna and Graz, Dr. Sander-Faes received his Ph.D. in 2011 and completed his Habilitation in 2018 at the University of Zurich, where he teaches. His notable publications include Urban Elites of Zadar (Viella, 2013), which introduced the concept of a Venetian “commonwealth,” and a forthcoming monograph based on his Habilitation research that investigates Habsburg state-building through rural tax records in Bohemia.