PD Dr. Borbála Zsuzsanna Török is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Austrian Historical Studies (IÖG) at the University of Vienna. She is the author of The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 (Berghahn Books, 2024) and Exploring Transylvania: Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories of a Multiethnic Province, 1790 – 1914 (Brill Publishers, 2015). She is director of the collaborative research project “Uses of Civil Justice and Social Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1873-1914,” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), which investigates the social impact of the civil procedural reforms in Cis-and Transleithania at the end of the nineteenth century. Related to the larger themes of this project, she is currently editing a special issue of the Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie / The German Journal of Law and Society, titled “Collective Land Rights and Capitalist Economy, 19th-21th centuries,” based on a collaboration between historians, legal scholars and sociologists.