Paolo Sartori holds an MA from the University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari” in Oriental Languages and Literatures (1998) and a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies (History and Philology) from the University of Rome “la Sapienza” (2006). From 2007 to 2011 he has been a Volkswagen Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Martin-Luther University in Halle/Wittenberg. Since 2011 he is Fellow of the Institute of Iranian Studies. In 2013 he was awarded the Start Prize by the Austrian Science Fund for his six-year project “Seeing like an Archive: Documents and Forms of Governance in Islamic Central Asia”. In 2014 he won the Best Publication Award at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2016 he was elected member of the Austrian Young Academy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill) and co-editor of the Handbook of Oriental Studies Series on Central Asia (Brill).
