Lars Behrisch teaches early modern political history at Utrecht University. His research focuses on comparative European history, exploring early modern politics in its variegated societal, religious and cultural settings. He has authored two monographs in German, including Die Berechnung der Glückseligkeit. Statistik und Politik in Deutschland und Frankreich im späten Ancien Régime [The Calculation of Public Happiness: Statistics and Politics in Germany and France in the late Ancien Régime] (2016), awarded the prestigious Carl Erdmann Prize by the German Historical Association.