Santorio Global Fellows

Yale University

Seconded at: University of Parma

Period: May-July 2024

Supervisor: Luana Salvarani

Madeleine Sheahan is a PhD student in the program for the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Her research examines the social and intellectual history of female medical practice in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italy. At the University of Parma, she will be conducting archival research which shall form the central chapter of her PhD dissertation that investigates the medical expertise of monastic women in northern Italy between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

University of Parma

Seconded at: Yale University

Period: August-October 2025

Supervisor: Ivano Dal Prete

Serena Mambriani is PhD student in the History of Education at the University of Parma. Her research deals with the history of health education in Italy. At the University of Yale, she will be conducting archival research for her doctoral dissertation, investigating the training of medical practitioners in the early modern period as well as the strategies of formal and informal health education promoted by governments in Northern Italy between the 17th and 18th centuries.

Univesity of Würzburg

Seconded at: University of Exeter

Period: November 2025-March 2026

Supervisors: Alun Withey, Sarah Toulalan, Catherine Rider

Anna Gili is a PhD student in Latin and Arabic philology at the University of Padua and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (cotutelle de thèse). Her main research interest is the transmission of medical knowledge from Greek into Arabic and from Arabic into Latin during the Middle Ages. Her PhD project aims to critically edit and study the books on pathology in the medical encyclopaedia al-Kitāb al-Malakī, composed by ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Maǧūsī (10th c.) and in its two Latin translations, the Pantegni by Constantine the African and the Liber regalis by Stephen of Antioch