Marija Andrić (1991) is Research Assistant at the Institute of History in Belgrade. She graduated from the Department of History of Art at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (2014). She obtained her MA at the same department (2015). In 2015 she was awarded the Prof. Dr Katarina Ambrozić Prize, which allowed her to undertake a research visit to Paris. In 2017/18 she won a scholarship of the Italian Government to conduct research at the State Archives of Venice under the supervision of Prof. Dr Maria Pia Pedani (Università Cà Foscari, Venezia); project title: Le relazioni mercantili tra Venezia e i Balcani nei tempi dell’Impero Ottomano (secc. XVI–XVIII). She is currently a PhD candidate at the History Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. Thesis title: Venice and the Ottoman Balkans merchants: Status and trade conditions (16th–18th century). Her research interests are focused on Venetian-Ottoman trade and cultural relations from the 16th to the 18th century, and commercial law and foreign merchants’ status in Venice, especially that of merchants from the Ottoman Balkans.