Janine Maegraith
BA (Stuttgart), MA (Stuttgart), PhD (Stuttgart)
College roles
Bye-Fellow
Director of Studies in History Part II (Year 3) (selected)
Postgraduate Mentor
Research Interests
Dr Janine Maegraith is a social historian researching the early modern history of Central Europe, especially German speaking territories.
Her work has a focus on consumption and material culture, forms of property transfer, inheritance and household structure, the history and development of female religious orders and the impact of the secularization on monastic pharmacy and rural welfare.
Her current research project "Rural society in Tyrol in the 16th century. Households in different economic contexts" (2024-2026) is funded by the Centre for Regional History in Brixen/Bressanone and the Provincial Museums in Bozen/Bolzano. This project builds on her previous research in collaboration with Dr Margareth Lanzinger “The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces”, funded by the FWF Austrian Research Council, University of Vienna.”