Antje Fl�chter is spokesperson of the collaborative research center 1288 �Practices of Comparing� and a professor of early modern history at Universit�t Bielefeld. Her primary focus lies in the interconnected history between Asia, especially India, and Europe, in the early modern period, as well as in history of religiosity, political history, gender history and theory of history. Kirsten Kramer is principal investigator in the collaborative research center 1288 �Practices of Comparing� and a professor of comparative literature and Romance studies at Universit�t Bielefeld. Her main areas of research include literature and globalization, (travel) literature and ethnography, actor-network theory and visual studies. Rebecca Mertens is a postdoctoral researcher in the collaborative research center 1288 �Practices of Comparing�. Her research interests cover the role of analogies, models and forms of comparison in the history of the life sciences. Silke Schwandt is principal investigator in the collaborative research center 1288 �Practices of Comparing� and a professor of digital history at Universit�t Bielefeld. Her expertise lies in digital history, encompassing methods and theories of digital historical research.