Samuel Gallacher

Samuel Morrison Gallacher MA (Cantab.) PhD FRNS read history at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, graduating in 2009 with First Class Honors and the Sir Herbert Butterfield Prize for History. He was the Lady Ward Scholar in Historical Studies during his MPhil, also undertaken at Cambridge and completed in 2010. He finished his doctorate at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy in 2015 with a thesis entitled, “Gift Exchange at the Court of Cosimo I de’ Medici, 1537-1574”. Gallacher has been a Thesaurus Poloniae Junior Fellow, an ICOM Europe Affiliated Researcher, a Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust Fellow, and since January 2014, a Junior Research Fellow at MAP. His research centers on early modern diplomatic history, especially the role of gifts. His current research project is on the use of coins and medals in Italian diplomacy during the sixteenth century.