Karin Friedrich, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, teaches history at the University of Aberdeen. Professor Friedrich received her MA from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and her PhD from Georgetown University in Washington DC. She is a specialist in Prussia and Poland 1500-1800, in the history of political ideas and in early modern identities. She is the author of The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, and has published many articles on political ideas in Poland-Lithuania, and on identity and nationalism.