TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME POSTGRADUATE SUMMER SCHOOL Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period Programme > Selected candidates > About THP A new research and advanced training programme of Fondazione 1563| Turin Humanities Programme - THP
Pärtel Piirimäe (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2007) is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Tartu. He is a specialist in early modern intellectual history and has published extensively on political and legal thought, the history of international law, natural law and moral philosophy, as well as the history of historiography and propaganda. His| Turin Humanities Programme - THP
Demetrius L. Eudell, currently the Dean of the Faculty and a Professor of History at Vassar College, specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. history, intellectual history, and the history of Blacks in the Americas. In addition to a number of essays and articles on Black intellectual and cultural history, he is the author of The Political [...]| Turin Humanities Programme – THP
Aleksander (Olek) Musiał is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) in ETH-Zürich. He specialises in early modern art and architecture, with a particular focus on the relationship between the emergence of modern archaeology and radical social reforms in 18th-century Eastern Europe. A graduate from Warsaw, [...]| Turin Humanities Programme – THP
Devin J. Vartija is assistant professor of history at Utrecht University and a former post-doctoral fellow at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is an intellectual historian whose main body of work focuses on the complex interplay between race and equality in Enlightenment England, France, and Switzerland. University of Utrecht [...]| Turin Humanities Programme – THP
Ann Thomson is emerita Professor at the European University Institute, having been Professor of Intellectual History from 2013 to 2020. Her research interests include the intellectual history of the long Eighteenth Century, and she studies questions at the intersection of religion, medicine and politics, as well as the circulation of ideas, book history and [...]| Turin Humanities Programme – THP
Vanessa Massuchetto is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Legal History & Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Her research interests includes women’s legal history, feminist legal theory, Early Modern Iberian-American worlds, history of criminal justice, colonial normativities in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina and court cases. Max Planck Institute for Legal History [...]| Turin Humanities Programme – THP
Marisa J. Fuentes is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in the histories of gender, slavery, the Caribbean and Black Atlantic worlds. She serves as Presidential Term Chair in African American History and she is Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers. Rutgers New Brunswick [...]| Turin Humanities Programme – THP
Darrin M. McMahon is currently the David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor of History at Dartmouth, where he previously held the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Chair. His research interests includes modern intellectual history, Enlightenment, French Revolution, history of happiness and human flourishing, equality. Dartmouth College| Turin Humanities Programme - THP
Andrew Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. A writer-scholar fascinated by the eighteenth century, his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Paris Review, El País, and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author or editor| Turin Humanities Programme - THP
David Lewis is Senior Lecturer in Greek History and Culture at the University of Edinburgh.| Turin Humanities Programme – THP
For the stomach that does not digest food and does not distribute it is not only the cause of the extinction and corruption of the other members of the body but also of itself. Giovanni Botero, Della ragion di stato In late medieval and early modern Europe a symbolic corporeal vocabulary was central| Turin Humanities Programme - THP
