Susanne Lachenicht is Professor of Early Modern History at Bayreuth University, Germany. She is the editor/co-editor of Religious Refugees in Europa, Asia and North America (2007), Diaspora Identities: Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Past and Present (2009), Connecting Worlds and People: Early Modern Diasporas (2016) and Between Macro and Micro History: Scales in Migration Studies, thematic issue of Yearbook of Transnational History 7 (2024).