Dr. Giora Sternberg

Biography

Giora Sternberg is an Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and a fellow at Hertford College. He began his academic journey at Tel-Aviv University and completed his DPhil in History at the University of Oxford. Sternberg has served as a junior fellow at the Harvard Society Fellows. His research interests encompass the intersections of political, social, and cultural history, with a specific focus on symbolic interaction and writing practices. His book, 'Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV', investigates how individuals and groups expressed and contested social positions across various contexts. He has published extensively on the topic and has contributed to articles that offer frameworks for understanding letters as vehicles of status. His forthcoming monograph, 'Writing Acts: Power, Writing, and the Ancien Régime', explores how manuscript documents function as socio-political actors, especially in the context of ceremonial records that shaped hierarchies. His recent article in the American Historical Review investigates protestations as a genre that reveals the workings of coercion and resistance during the early modern period. Sternberg welcomes postgraduate students with interests in early modern history, history writing, communication, media, archives, and related fields.

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