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.
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.
Professional Email Personal Email Website Egemen Yılgür is an associate professor in the anthropology department at YeditepeUniversity, where he has been a faculty member since 2019. He also offers sociology andurban studies lectures in the sociology department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Hisresearch interests are the effects of Ottoman 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 emotions— couched in early-modern micro-historical narratives.
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.
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.