Istvan Szepesi

Istvan Szepesi is a historian of religious coexistence in the early modern world. He received his Ph.D. from Notre Dame in 2023, with a dissertation that examined Catholic Cologne’s policy of overt intolerance and covert accommodation towards its Protestant residents during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. His article on the irenicist city councilor Hermann Weinsberg is forthcoming from the Sixteenth Century Journal.

Istvan’s broader research interests concern the compromises crafted by premodern communities to negotiate religious and cultural differences. As a teaching fellow, he will be offering classes on the global history of toleration and on precolonial African history.