Russel Viljoen is Professor of History in the Department of History, University of
South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. His area of research is 18th century colonial
South Africa, with specific reference to the indigenous Khoikhoi peoples of South
Africa, during the Dutch VOC rule at the Cape of Good Hope.
The online presentation of Daniele Andreozzi’s new book: Intrecci di vite. Pratiche, mercantilismi e razionalita economiche nella Trieste del Settecento will take place on 22 June 2021, 5.00-6.30 pm. All those interested are welcome.
Email Helen Rees is a professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and director of the World Music Center at UCLA. She is a specialist in Chinese music, with particular interests in the multi-ethnic southwestern border province of Yunnan and the cosmopolitan city Read more…
Email Rosimeire Barboza da Silva is a Psychologist, and currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES/UC), Portugal. She is a researcher at the LabEC (Laboratory of Critical Discourse Studies) at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Her research interests are related to Read more…
Daniele Andreozzi is Professor of Economic History at the University of Trieste where currently he teaches Global Economic History and Economic History of Europe. His research interests focus on growth and crisis in the economic systems, the cities of north-central Italy and their territories focusing on the relationships between the social and economic changes, the institutional evolution and the social movements in early modern, the relationship between the trade mechanisms, the social practices, the norms and the institutions and between economic system, identities, memories and borders and the social and economic exchanges and the circulation of goods and men in the Mediterranean area. He widely published on this topic.
Isabelle S. Headrick is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin. She works on the global modern education movement and its interaction with Iranian, Jewish, global French, and family histories. Specifically, her research focuses on a family of French-educated, Jewish school directors. Three generations of this family lived in Iran for seventy years (1908-1978) and worked during that time for the Alliance Israélite Universelle, a transnational Jewish educational organization. Through this family’s documented experiences, she examines changes in Iranian society relating to Jewish Iranians, girls, and women. Her article, “A Family in Iran: Women Teachers, Minority Integration, and Family Networks in the Jewish Schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Iran, 1900–1950,” was published in October 2019 in The Journal of the Middle East and Africa.
Email Homepage Pilvikki Lantela is a cultural historian and management and organization studies scholar, interested in the possibilities of microhistory in historical writing. Her research interests lie in questions about power, feminism, gender, and organizing in religious or non-corporate contexts. Also, the possibilities of using creative writing and narrative in research Read more…
Konstantina Zanou is Assistant Professor of Italian, specializing in Mediterranean Studies, in the Italian Department at Columbia University. She is a historian of the long nineteenth century in the Mediterranean. Her research focuses on issues of intellectual and literary history, biography, and microhistory, with a special emphasis on Italy and Greece.
The MicroWorlds Lab is a physical, social and intellectual space at Duke University providing the possibility to research and write historical stories through microanalytical methods and practices by providing a community environment for undergraduate learning and exploration, as well as scholarly experimentation, in microhistory; training and supporting graduate students in their research Read more…
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