Participant Info
- First Name
- Sharon
- Last Name
- Strocchia
- Country
- United States
- State
- GA Georgia
- sstrocc@emory.edu
- Affiliation
- Emory University
- Website URL
- http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/strocchia-sharon.html
- Keywords
- Italian Renaissance, gender, history of medicine, healthcare, pharmacy, nuns, women's work, female religiosity, history of sexuaity, history of prostitution, early modern Europe, Atlantic world medicine, women in medicine, Renaissance Catholicism, women's networks
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a social and cultural historian of Renaissance Italy, with particular interests in women, religion, sexuality, and medicine.
- Recent Publications
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy (Harvard University Press, 2019), winner of Marraro Prize, Society for Italian Historical Studies
Co-editor (with Sara Ritchey), Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), co-winner Collaborative Project Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Italy
- Expertise by Geography
- Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Medicine, Religion, Sexuality, Women
