Santorio Global Fellows

Santorio Global Fellows

2023
Madeleine Sheahan
Yale University
Commercializing the Convent: Women, Medicine, and Knowledge in Early Modern Italy
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.
2024
Serena Mambriani
University of Parma
Teaching Humours and Poisons: Spagyric, Iatrochemistry and Galenic Medicine in Early Modern Medical Education
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.
2025
Anna Gili
Univesity of Würzburg
Fertility Concerns in the Early Twelfth Century
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
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