At the University of Vienna more than 10,000 personalities work together towards answering the big questions of the future. The Department of Economic and Social History is now looking for a University Assistant with an interest in the Micro-spatial Perspective. Read more…
Anthony Amato is a professor in the Social Science Department at Southwest Minnesota State University. He is interested in many forms of microhistory. Over the years, his scholarship and publications have addressed convergences of economy, environment, and culture.
Steven Parker is a lecturer in the Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise at the Open University Business School, UK. He originally trained as a historian where he studied microhistory in Early Modern Europe. After working in local government as a social worker and manager he studied for a doctorate at the School for Policy Studies, Bristol University. Steve specialises in local public management and is interested in how microhistory research and theory can be applied to local governance and policy settings.
Mikhail Velizhev and Emilio Mari are inviting papers about MICROSTORIE LETTERARIE. MODELLI E PROSPETTIVE DI RICERCA IN AREA SLAVA to be published in the special issue of the Italian online journal “eSamizdat” dedicated to microhistory and literary studies in Slavic area. Read more…
Liv Egholm is PhD in History, anthropology, and semiotics and an associate professor at Copenhagen Business School. works from an interdisciplinary approach, bridging organizational, historical, moral, legal, political, and economic domains. Her research spans from notions and practices of “the common good”, the constituting elements of gift-giving practices, philanthropy, and the blurred lines of state, market, and civil society from the mid-19th century till our present day. Furthermore, she is also engaged in theoretical and methodological discussions pushing both microhistories, the relational-processual approach, and the studies of temporalities forward.
We are happy to announce that the Middle Eastern Studies journal published Dr Egemen Yılgür’s new article, titled “The 1858 tax reform and the ‘other nomads’ in Ottoman Asia”. The work is an example of microhistorical and historical anthropological studies.
Professional Email Personal Email Website Egemen Yılgür is an associate professor in the anthropology department at Yeditepe University, where he has been a faculty member since 2019. He also offers sociology and urban studies lectures in the sociology department at Read more…
Email Website Monica Calabritto is an Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on macro-historical topics—insanity, the interactions between medicine and law, and law and Read more…
An English-language online PhD-course is offered free of charge at Eötvös University Budapest in the spring semester of 2022. Those interested are welcome in a restricted number. The application deadline is 8 February 2022. Preference is given to PhD students. Read more…
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.