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Professor emerita Francine Michaud, University of Calgary, Canada, is the author of Earning Dignity: Labour Conditions and Relations during the Century of the Black Death in Marseille (Brepols, 2016). Her work on labour strategies emphasises vulnerable labourers’ access to income resources.
Dr Davide Cristoferi, University of Ghent, Belgium, is a FWO postdoctoral researcher. He studies the relationship between economic inequality, fiscal and labour policies and agrarian systems such as sharecropping and transhumance in late medieval Tuscany. He has published several articles on this topic, a book and an edition of sources.
Dr Thijs Lambrecht, University of Ghent, is a Senior Lecturer in Rural History. He has published on the history of labour relations, economic inequality and poor relief in the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period.
Professor Raffaella Sarti, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy, is author of Europe at Home: Family and Material Culture 1500–1800 (Yale University Press, 2002) and editor of What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present (Berghahn, 2018).
Dr Charmian Mansell, University of Cambridge, holds a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship to research ‘Everyday Travel and Communities in Early Modern England’. She has several publications on female servants in early modern England, and a digital edition of court records.
Dr Hanne Østhus, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, is currently engaged on a research project ‘Servants and Slaves’, examining the lives of non-European servants and slaves who were transported to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scandinavia.
Dr Carolina Uppenberg, Stockholm University, Sweden, studies agrarian social relations with a gender perspective and is currently leading a research project titled ‘Challenging the domestic. Gender division of labour and economic change studied through 19th century crofters’ households’.
Dr Theresa Johnsson, Uppsala University, Sweden, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Hugo Valentin Centre, where her research focused on class and social, economic and legal inequality and how these variables shaped people’s lives, c.1780–1850.
Dr Vilhelm Vilhelmsson, University of Iceland, Iceland, is director of the University of Iceland Research Centre North-West. His book Sjálfstætt fólk: Vistarband og íslenskt samfélag á 19. öld [Independent People: Compulsory Service and Icelandic Society in the 19th Century] (Sögufélag, 2017) was shortlisted for the Icelandic Literature Price.
Professor Jane Whittle, University of Exeter, is editor of Servants in Rural Europe c.1400–c.1900 (Boydell Press, 2017) and co-author of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), as well as many other publications.