Irena Benyovsky Latin
is a scholarly advisor at the Department of Medieval History, Croatian Institute of History. Her research focuses on medieval urban history in the Eastern Adriatic (especially Trogir and Dubrovnik), urban social topography, the development of medieval urban institutions and the relationship between cities and central authorities. Since 2020 she has been the PL of the research project Topographies of Power: Eastern Adriatic Cities in Medieval Spheres of Power supported by the Croatian Science Foundation. She is the Croatian representative on the International Committee of the History of Towns.
David Gentilcore
is Professor of Modern History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His most recent books are Food and Health in Early Modern Europe (Bloomsbury 2016) and a co-edited volume (with Matthew Smith), Proteins, Pathologies and Politics: Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury 2019). From 2013 to 2016 he was PI on the Economic and Social Research Council-funded project Rough Skin: Maize, Pellagra and Society in Italy, 1750–1930 (2013–16). He is currently PI on a European Research Council Advanced Grant, entitled The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500–1900.
Annemarie Kinzelbach
is an historian of early modern German Imperial towns and territories. She published Gesundbleiben, Krankwerden, Armsein in der frühneuzeitlichen Gesellschaft in 1995, a comparative case study on public health in early modern cities. Her articles include studies on early modern medical professions, hospitals, the impact of epidemic disease (pestilence, French disease, leprosy), the meaning of medical, gendered health care and the early modern medical market. Based on handwritten daily notes of a doctor in early eighteenth-century Nuremberg she studied the interrelationship between knowledge and practice. Most recent studies focus on the social meaning of medical practices such as post-mortems, and the interrelation between every-day policy and health care in the Holy Roman Empire. A monograph, published in 2016, describes the interplay of political and cultural tasks and the representation of artisanal surgeons. In September 2019 research on a surgical hospital of the Fugger in Augsburg will focus the interdependence of representation, medical practice, charity and polity.
Rina Kralj-Brassard
is a research associate at the Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Dubrovnik, Croatia. She obtained her doctoral
Ivana Lazarević
is a research associate at the Institute for Historical Studies of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Dubrovnik. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Zagreb (2012). She worked in State Archives in Dubrovnik between 1999 and 2011. In 2011 she joined the Institute for Historical Studies of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Dubrovnik. She has participated in several research projects organised by the University of Dubrovnik and the Institute for Historical Studies of the CASA in Dubrovnik.
Clement Masakure
is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Free State. His book, African nurses and everyday work in twentieth-century Zimbabwean hospitals, under contract with Manchester University Press, examines the history of African nurses working in Government hospitals in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe. Between 2013–2018, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State. He is a member of the University of the Free State Vice Chancellor’s Prestige Scholars Programme.
Anna M. Peterson
is an Early Career Researcher who works on the Church’s and municipal responses to corruption in hospitals and leprosaria, which was the focus of her Mellon Fellowship at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Additionally, she is the founder and co-organiser of “Leprosy and the ‘Leper’ Reconsidered”. She received her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2017.
Egidio Priani
is a practising clinical psychologist in the Venice area, currently completing his psychoanalytic training. Among other publications, he is the author of ‘“Shrouded in a Dark Fog”: Comparison of the Diagnosis of Pellagra in Venice and General Paralysis of the Insane in the United Kingdom, 1840–1900’ (in History of Psychiatry, 2017). He was research assistant on the Economic and
Gordan Ravančić
has been Director of the Croatian Institute of History since 2019. From 1998 to 2013 he also worked as a part-time lecturer at the Studia Croatica of the University of Zagreb, and from 2011 to 2016 as lecturer at the Croatian Catholic University (Zagreb). He is the author of several history text-books for elementary and high school students. He has published two scholarly monographs: Life in Taverns of Medieval Dubrovnik (2001) and Time of Dying. Black Death in Dubrovnik 1348–1349 (2010).
Jonathan Reinarz
is Professor and Director of the Social Studies in Medicine team in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. He has published extensively on the history of hospitals, including (with Graham Mooney) Permeable Walls: institutional visiting in historical perspective (Rodopi, 2009) and Healthcare in Birmingham: the Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779–1939 (Boydell & Brewer, 2009). He has also edited a special issue of Food & History, which explores the subject of hospital food, and a volume (with Bonfield and Huguet-Termes) on hospitals and communities (Lang, 2013). Other publications include a history of smell (University of Illinois Press, 2014), an edited collection on the medical history of skin (with Kevin Siena; Pickering & Chatto, 2013) and (with Rebecca Wynter) a volume on complaints, grievances and controversies in medicine (Routledge, 2015).
Jane Stevens Crawshaw
is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University. Her first book explored the first permanent quarantine hospitals, established in fifteenth-century Venice (Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice (2012)). Between 2012 and 2017 she held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellowship entitled “Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy” which explored the meaning and impact of public health in Genoa and Venice.
David Theodore
is the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Health, and Computation at the McGill University Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture. His research focuses on architectural history, healthcare, digital technology, and social theory. He has contributed to design journals in North America, Europe, and
Christina Vanja
is apl. Professor of History at the Kassel University, Germany, and was until the end of 2017 director of the archives on Hessian welfare history also in Kassel. She has authored numerous books and essays on the history of welfare for the poor and the diseased, hospital inmates, psychiatric patients, people in sanatoria and visitors of spas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. She is Vice-president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhausgeschichte (German association for hospital history). Her recent publications include G. Stollberg, C. Vanja and E. Kraas (eds), Krankenhausgeschichte heute: Was heißt und zu welchem Ende studiert man Hospital- und Krankenhausgeschichte? (Historia Hospitalium 27, Berlin: LIT Verlag 2011), G. Stollberg, C. Vanja and E. Kraas (eds), Außereuropäische und europäische Hospital- und Krankenhausgeschichte – Ein Vergleich (Historia Hospitalium 28, Berlin: LIT Verlag 2013); Gunnar Stollberg †, C. Vanja, F. Bruns and F. Dross (eds), Patientengeschichte in Hospital, Heilstätte und Krankenhaus (Historia Hospitalium 29, Berlin: LIT Verlag 2015), K. Nolte, C. Vanja, F. Bruns and F. Dross (eds), Geschichte der Pflege im Krankenhaus (Historia Hospitalium 30, Berlin: LIT Verlag 2017). Recently she has begun research on disabled people in the early modern society and madhouses in the nineteenth century.
George Weisz
is the Cotton-Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at McGill University. He received a PhD in History from Stony Brook University and in Sociology from the University of Paris 5 (Descartes). He is interested in healthcare in Europe and North America between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. His two most recent books are Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History (2014) and Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization, 1830–1950 (2006).
Valentina Živković
is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade. Her research interests lie in art and religiosity in Kotor in the late medieval and early modern period, with a particular focus on the links between two Adriatic coasts, the cult of the saints and veneration of relics, the testamentary legacies ad pias causas and the promotion of Dominican observant reform in Dubrovnik and Kotor.