Dr. Kilian Harrer

Studies (B.A. 2012, M.A. 2015) in History with a minor in “Sprachen, Literaturen und Kulturen” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Ph.D. (2021) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the dissertation topic “Places of Power, Spaces of Peril: Pilgrimage and Borders in Western Central Europe, c.. 1770-1810”; 2021-23 research associate at SFB 1369 (“Vigilance Cultures”) at LMU Munich; since 2023 research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG).

• Religion and Politics from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Era
• Transnational history and borderlands
• Early modern Central and East-Central European history
• Work, Piety and Holidays in the Early Modern Period
• Environmental history

• Troubled Feast, Contested Fast: The Uniate Dilemma and the Rural Economy in Eighteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania, in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 72, no. 1 (2024): 20–43.
• Mass Pilgrimage and the Usable Empire in a Napoleonic Borderland, in: The Historical Journal 66, no. 4 (2023): 773–94, Open Access https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X23000080
• Enlightenment and Linseed Oil: Conflicts over Fasting Rigour in Eighteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania, in: Food & History 21, no. 2 (2023): 139–60.
• The Keys of Heaven in the Hands of Women: History, Hierarchy, and Gender in Early Modern Catholicism, in: Catholic Historical Review 106, no. 1 (2020): 50–76.
• La suppression de cinq paroisses à Tours (1777–1782): Un exemple de rationalité administrative au siècle des Lumières, in: Dix-Huitième Siècle 46 (2014): 673–93.