Notes on Contributors
Paola Avallone
Ph.D. in Economic History, is Director of the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe (ISEM), National Research Council of Italy (CNR). She specialises in the Economic History of Southern Italy between the 16th and 19th centuries with special attention to banking, insurance, local institutions, and the mobility of people and goods. Her recent publications: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business. Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval to the Modern (London, 2024); Monetizzare il credito. La Cassa di Sconto del Banco delle due Sicilie (1818-1860) (Bologna, 2022).
Helen Berry
is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, U.K. She has published extensively on the social and cultural history of Britain in the long eighteenth century, including studies of the family, gender, and consumer culture. A prizewinning Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, her most recent book is Orphans of Empire: the Fate of Londonâs Foundlings (Oxford University Press, 2019), which was shortlisted for the Cundill Prize (2020). It charts the occupational destination of 6,000 orphaned and abandoned children raised at the London Foundling Hospital within the context of British imperial and maritime history.
Justine Cousin
is a teaching fellow at the University of Caen, France where she teaches British civilisation and 19thâ20th century history. Her research interests are imperial, social, and maritime history. She has published on maritime colonial labour and Titanic stewardesses in English and in French.
Ariana DomÃnguez GarcÃa
is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of the Balearic Islands and currently part of the research team on the ERC Consolidator Grant project, âOcean Crime Narratives: A Polyhedral Assessment of Hegemonic Discourse on Environmental Crime and Harm at Sea (1982âpresent)â. Her research focuses on fishing communities and maritime cultural heritage from a gender perspective.
John Odin Jensen
was born into a Norwegian American seafaring family in Alaska and began working as a commercial fisherman with his father at the age of nine. As a fisherman, shipwreck survivor, boat captain, and scholar, he has experienced and studied coastal and maritime life from above and below the waterâs surface for over 50 years. He holds a Ph.D. in Social History, an M.S. in History and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and an M.A. in Maritime History and Underwater Archaeology from East Carolina University. He is a professor of history at the University of West Florida.
Kathy S. Mason
is Professor of History and Chair of History, Law, and Gender Studies at the University of Findlay (Ohio, U.S.A.).
Erica Mezzoli
holds a Ph.D. in East European History from the University of Trieste. Her research interests include economic, social, and labour history from Early Modern to Modern times. After completing a Marie SkÅodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of Ljubljana with the project (acronym) WeCanIt (grant agreement: 894257), she is currently developing the NextGenerationEU Project âOndine. Womenâs Labour and Everyday Life on the Upper and Eastern Adriatic Waterfronts, mid-19th century-mid-20th centuryâ (funded by EU; CUP E53C22002420001), hosted by the Department of History, Humanities and Society of the Tor Vergata University of Rome.
Antònia Morey
is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of the Balearic Islands. Her research focuses on Economic and Social History, with a particular emphasis on land property, business, labour market, and gender inequality in the Balearic Islands from the 18th to the 20th centuries. She is the author of âExclusión social, endogamia y transmission ocupacional: los xuetes mallorquines (ca. 1770â1930)â (in Investigaciones de Historia Económica, 2024, with Margarita Aguiló), and âMujeres, nobleza y herencia. La pervivencia de la discriminación de género por encima de la ley y el derecho (Mallorca, 1760â1900)â (in Historia Contemporánea, 2025).
Luisa Maria Muñoz Abeledo
is Associate Professor of Economic History at Santiago de Compostela University. Her research focuses on labour market, businesswomen, and living standards from a gender perspective. She is the editor with C. Borderias of Desigualdades en perspectiva histórica: Trabajos, salarios y género en España, siglos XVIâXX (Barcelona Icaria, 2024). Recently she published âFamily Budgets and Standards of Living in a Port City of Northern Spain: A Coruña, 1924â. Ãreas. Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales (2024) 47: 155â168, and with C. BorderÃas, âFamily budgets and standards of living among the working classes in Spain (1900â1930)â. Ãreas. Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales (2024) 47: 5â14.
Tomas Nilson
earned his Ph.D. from the University of Gothenburg in 2004, focusing on Swedish entrepreneurs and the concept of success from 1890 to 1920. His research interests extend from 1850 to the present day. He has published work in areas such as maritime history (including crime in port towns, the social discourse surrounding seafarers in Sweden from 1900 to 1930, and the history of Swedish passenger traffic), science and technology studies (STS), and Heritage Studies. Since 2013, he has been a senior lecturer in History, Heritage Studies, and Cultural Criminology at Halmstad University.
Oskar Opassi
is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research focuses on social, labour, and economic history of the Slovenian Littoral in the second half of the 20th century.
Raffaella Salvemini
is Director of Research of the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe (ISEM), National Research Council of Italy (CNR). She deals with the economic history of Southern Italy with reference to assistance, education, ports, and maritime healthcare. She is a member of various scientific societies. Among her recent publications on the sea theme: Procida, orizzonte mare: storia marinara di unâisola (Roma, 2022); âEpidemie e sanità marittima nel Mezzogiorno pre-unitario (XVIIIâXIX secolo)â (in Glocale. Rivista molisana di storia e scienze sociali, 2021); Napoli e il controllo della frontiera marittima al tempo del colera (Napoli, 2021).
Daniel J. Albero Santacreu
is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical Sciences and Arts Theory at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain), where he has been teaching Maritime Heritage since 2015. He has been engaged in archaeological and anthropological maritime studies centred on maritime heritage, seascapes and islandscapes, maritime cultural contact, and the socioecological background of the contemporary fishing communities of the Balearic Islands. He is a member of the ERC project âOcean Crime Narratives: A Polyhedral Assessment of Hegemonic Discourse on Environmental Crime and Harm at Sea (1982âpresent)â. He is also a musician and songwriter.
Andreu SeguÃ
is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of the Balearic Islands. His research focuses on maritime economics, including maritime trade and corsair activity, as well as economic inequality and social mobility in the Balearic Islands during the pre-industrial era. He is the author of âCapitanas y patronas. Mujeres en la actividad corsaria de Mallorca en el siglo XVIIâ (in Revista de Historia Económica, 2022) and Las Baleares frente al corso. La defensa de un archipiélago en el Mediterráneo del siglo XVI (Museu MarÃtim de Barcelona, 2023).
Jo Stanley
FRHistS, FRSA, ARINA (she/her) is a creative historian who works as a writer, speaker, and consultant on diversity at sea, including for Lloydâs Register Foundationâs Rewriting Women into Maritime History web-based project: https://bit.ly/LRFmaritimeWomen. She is Honorary Research Fellow at Blaydes Maritime Centre, University of Hull, U.K. Her books include Women and the Royal Navy (2017), From Cabin âBoysâ to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea (2016), and Hello Sailor! The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea (2015). She lives in Englandâs rural Pennines, makes textile art, and is also a counsellor. Blog: http://genderedseas.blogspot.com. Website: www.jostanley.biz.