Samuel K. Cohn, Project Lead

Samuel K. Cohn, Project Lead

Dr Samuel K. Cohn holds a PhD in Medieval History from Harvard University (1978) under the supervision of David Herlihy and has taught at Wesleyan University, Brandeis, and the University of Glasgow with visiting appointments at Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, Antwerp University, the University of Aarhus, and L’Università degli studi di Milano, where he was the first Federico Chabod Visiting Professor. He has published fourteen books, most recently Paradoxes of Inequality in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford University Press, 2022). Over the past two decades, he has concentrated on two major themes: popular insurrection and the history of epidemics. My book Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS (Oxford University Press, 2018) won recognition from OUP for receiving the most ‘reads’ of any of their publications in the history of science over the past decade.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/samuelcohn/

Team

Team

  • Neil McClelland

    Neil McClelland holds a first-class MA joint honours degree in History and Italian, and a Master of Research (MRes) degree, both from the University of Glasgow. His MRes thesis, which passed unconditionally, was on notions of foreignness in Florence c.1300-c.1525. He is currently the PhD student on the Art and Inequality project, to which his…

  • Samuel K. Cohn, Project Lead

    Dr Samuel K. Cohn holds a PhD in Medieval History from Harvard University (1978) under the supervision of David Herlihy and has taught at Wesleyan University, Brandeis, and the University of Glasgow with visiting appointments at Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, Antwerp University, the University of Aarhus, and L’Università degli studi di…

  • Valentina Costantini, Research Associate

    Dr Valentina Costantini holds a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Siena (2013). She has carried out research and teaching activities at the University of Siena, Siena State Archives, Universidad de la República (Montevideo) and University of Leeds. She has also collaborated with the Instituto de Cultura Italiana in Montevideo and Leeds Museums…

  • Aina Palarea, Research Assistant

    Dr Aina Palarea holds a PhD in Medieval History from the European University Institute (2023) and two MRes from the same Institute and the University of Girona, where she did her BA in History. Her research interests focus on the fields of cultural and socioeconomic history, particularly on consumption and trade in late medieval Catalonia.…

Team