Jane Stevens Crawshaw

I am a social and cultural historian of the environment and health in Renaissance Italy.  I hold a doctorate from the University of Cambridge (2008) and have taught at the Universities of St Andrews and Oxford Brookes.  I am currently completing my second monograph, under contract with Oxford University Press, entitled Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy: Environmental Ideals and Urban Practice in Genoa and Venice.  The innovative research which underpins this book was supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship, awarded in 2012.  Before that, my first book (published in 2012) provided the first holistic study of the earliest permanent quarantine hospitals that were established in fifteenth-century Venice.   My next project will explore the issue of memory and natural disaster in the premodern world, including both outbreaks of disease and dramatic environmental changes. 

 

I am particularly interested in the relationship between people, space and place in History (both with regard to subject-matter and approaches to History).  For more information, please see my page on the website of the School of History, Philosophy and Culture at Oxford Brookes.  

 

I can be contacted via email at: jane.stevens-crawshaw@brookes.ac.uk.