Janine Maegraith
BA (Stuttgart), MA (Stuttgart), PhD (Stuttgart)
College roles
Bye-Fellow
Director of Studies in History (Part II)
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 early modern history of rural areas, forms and financing of property transfers, household economics, the interplay of markets, wealth, inheritance and marital property, and the history of consumption.
Her current research project "Rural society in Tyrol in the 16th century. Households in different economic contexts" (2024-2026) in collaboration with Dr Siglinde Clementi 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 Professor Margareth Lanzinger “The Role of Wealth in Defining and Constituting Kinship Spaces”, funded by the FWF Austrian Research Council, University of Vienna.”