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Dr. Jonathan Singerton
Historian, Writer, Thinker

Dr. Jonathan Singerton is Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Global Political History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam).

He is a historian of the Habsburg Monarchy and Early America, focusing on the transatlantic connections between Central Europe and the Americas in the long eighteenth century as well as the broader global dimensions of Habsburg history in general.

He was previously Lecturer in History at the University of Amsterdam and a University Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

His first monograph, The American Revolution and the Habsburg Monarchy, appeared in 2021. He is currently working on a global history of the Habsburg lands and leads a research project on the Leopoldine Society.