• Region: Holy Roman Empire
• Time: 17th century
• Themes: Cartography; Cultural History; Digital Humanities; History of Medicine

Molly Taylor-Poleskey is an early modern European cultural historian and digital humanist. She is the Map Librarian at Harvard University and prior to that, was Associate Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. Her first book about food and political culture at the court of the “Great” Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm (1620-1688) of Brandenburg-Prussia is forthcoming Spring 2024 with the University of Virginia Press. Her German History article, “A Baker, the Great Elector and Prussian Statebuilding: Territorial Integration in the Everyday,” won the German History Society’s article prize. Her second book project is a microhistory of a poison scandal at the court in Berlin in the late 17th century. Her latest digital endeavors include the Digital Holy Roman Empire (a mapping project) and Hidden Town in 3D, an augmented reality project in collaboration with the Animation Department of MTSU and Old Salem Museums and Gardens in North Carolina.