Daniel Jütte is Professor of History at New York University. He received his PhD in history from the University of Heidelberg. A historian of early modern and modern Europe, Jütte’s research interests lie in cultural history, urban history and material culture, history of knowledge and science, and Jewish history. He is the author of three monographs: Transparency: The Material History of an Idea (Yale, 2023), The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History (Yale, 2015), and The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400–1800 (Yale, 2015; first German ed. 2011). Jütte has held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Harvard Society of Fellows, and the University of Cambridge, and he has received support from the German Research Foundation (DFG), German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung), and Daimler Benz Foundation. Before joining NYU, Jütte was a lecturer in the Department of History at Harvard University as well as at the University of Heidelberg.