“Engineering the Engineer at the Medici Court in the Age of Galileo”
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Boring into the “Mountain Sickness” Miners’ Cancers, Occupational Health, and the Discovery of Radiation Risk in Central Europe
Faculty Publications
- Tawny Paul published an article titled “Involuntary Investors in British State-Building: Seamen’s Tickets and the Financial Revolution c. 1700-1760” in Past and Present (November 2025).
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam co-authored an article on early modern diplomacy in Cambodia titled “Un rapprochement delicat” in Peninsule, No. 90, 2025.
- Miloš Jovanović published an open-access article titled “Imperial Nostalgia in the Era of Postsocialist Urban Change” in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (July 18, 2025).
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam gave an interview, titled Indian Temptations, on the current state of intellectual and cultural life in India which was published in Granta (No. 173).
- Fernando Pérez Montesinos gave an interview to independent Mexican media discussing his new book Landscaping Indigenous Mexico. The interview is available to watch here.
- The Lisbon newspaper Publico published an interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam on Sunday, August 10, 2025 covering subjects including the future of historical research, nationalism, and the evolution of Portuguese history.
- David N. Myers wrote an op ed, “Israel should lead the rebuilding” featured in the Los Angeles Times on November 4, 2025.
- Albion Urdank published a Letter to the Editor titled “Brzezinski’s observation about Deng still resonates” in the Financial Times on October 20, 2025.
- Albion Urdank published a Letter to the Editor titled “TikTok ‘compromise’ feels typically Trumpian” in the Financial Times on September 30, 2025.
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- Read our report on The Challenge to University Autonomy in an Illiberal Era.
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- PHI Director, Tawny Paul, publishes article in the American Historical Review
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