OUR STAFF

Elena Brizio

Elena Brizio completed her Ph.D in Medieval History at the University of Florence in 1993 with a thesis on the political and prosopographical analysis of the Sienese government in years 1355-1399; she also completed a Masters in Gender Studies in 2003, working on the role of the dowry in the fourteenth century.

Piergabriele Mancuso

Piergabriele Mancuso (Venice, 1975) received his doctoral degree in Jewish Studies from University College London, 2009. He was a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) as a Phd student fellow and at the Warburg Institute, London (Sophie Fellowship Programme).

John Henderson

John Henderson is one of the leading historians of medicine in Renaissance and early modern Tuscany. He is Professor of Italian Renaissance History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. At present he is Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, Florence, Harvard University’s Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Professor Henderson has published a wide range of books and articles on the social, religious and medical history of medieval and renaissance Tuscany.

Maurizio Arfaioli

Maurizio Arfaioli was born in Piedmont in 1967 and grew up in Tuscany. He received a B.A. (Honors) in Renaissance History at the University of Pisa in 1995 and completed a Ph.D.

Marta Caroscio

Marta Caroscio studied at the Universities of Florence, London and Siena. She completed her PhD in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Siena in 2007, receiving as well a Diploma in Paelography, Diplomatics and Archive Studies from the Archivio di Stato in Florence (2003-2005).

Samuel Morrison Gallacher

Samuel Morrison Gallacher read history at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, graduating in 2009 with First Class Honours and the Sir Herbert Butterfield Prize for History.

Julia Siemon

Julia Siemon is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Columbia University, where she is a C.V. Starr Fellow. She graduated from Washington University in 2006 with a B.A.

Laura Windisch

Laura Windisch studied art history and cultural studies at the Universities of Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Rome and Berlin.

Ronny Rinaldi

A native of Arezzo, Ronny Rinaldi graduated in Computer Engineering from University of Florence in 2009.

Joana Amill Luzondo

Joana Amill Luzondo was born in Barcelona in 1985 and graduated from Universitat Ramon Llull in 2007 in Industrial Design and has worked for Gemma Bernal Diseño as an Industrial and Graphic designer.

In 2008 she moved to Florence and completed a Master’s degree in Web Design at the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti.

Caterina Pardi

Native of Florence, graduated in Cinema and Media Studies at University of Siena she also studied photography and image postproduction at SSTI Academy in Florence.