Lavinia Gambini

• History of Knowledge, Science, and Medicine
• Social and Cultural History of the Mediterranean in the early modern period
• History of Ottoman-European encounters and migrations
• Material and Visual Culture Studies

• Artisans, Vendors, and Practitioners from the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern Italy (Doctoral project, completed): [https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/ebde0857-d61e-48d0-99c0-95e80e598f06]
• Global Recipes in the Early Modern World (ECR conference and public-facing publication project, with Dr Lucy Havard und Dr Amanda Herbert, completed). Funded by the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS), the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM), the British Society for the History of Science, and the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. [https://recipes.hypotheses.org/]
• The Ottoman Home in Enlightenment Europe, 1650-1800 (Postdoctoral project)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

This section will be updated soon.

Other Contributions

• Globalizing Early Modern Recipes, co-ed. with Lucy Havard und Amanda Herbert, Autumn Special Issue of the academic outreach project The Recipes Project, https://recipes.hypotheses.org/.
• Lavinia Gambini, in collab. with Lucy Havard, Conference Reports for the Bulletins of the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS), the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), and the Society for Social History of Medicine (SSHM).
• Review of ‘Griechen im Heiligen Römischen Reich: Migration und ihre wissensgeschichtliche Bedeutung’ [Greeks in the Holy Roman Empire: Migration and Its Significance for the History of Knowledge] by Stefano Saracino, Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2024, in: Francia-Recensio, 2025, https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/frrec/article/view/109509.
• Review of ‘Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544–1669’ by Nil Ö. Palabıyık, London and New York: Routledge, 2023, in: H-Soz-Kult, April 9, 2024, https://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/reb-136118?title=n-palabiyik-silent-teachers.
• Review of ‘Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds’ ed. by Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, Duygu Yıldırım, London and New York: Routledge, 2023, in: Journal of Early Modern History 27/6 (2023), 559-561, https://brill.com/view/journals/jemh/27/6/article-p559_5.xml.

Talks and Presentations

Paris (March 2026); HU Berlin (February 2026); Bern (November 2025); The Warburg Institute, London (October 2025); SRS Biennial Meeting, Bristol (July 2025); QMUL, London (June 2025); RSA Annual Meeting, Boston (March 2025); Manchester (May 2024); Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico, Trent (April 2024); RSA Annual Meeting, Chicago (March 2024); Cambridge (March 2024); Warsaw (January 2024); DSZV, Venice (August 2023); Oxford (April 2023); Geneva Graduate School (April 2023); Medici Archive Project, Florence (January 2023)

• 10–12/2025: Short-Term Frances Yates Postdoctoral Fellowship in Intellectual, Cultural and Art History, The Warburg Institute, University of London/School of Advanced Study
• 2021–2025: Cambridge International Trust Scholarship
• 6–9/2023: Non-Stipendiary Doctoral Fellow at the German Centre for Venetian Studies, Venice
• 10–12/2022: Eva-Schler Doctoral Fellow, The Medici Archive Project, Florence
• 2020–2021: Gurnee Hart Masters Scholarship, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
• 2021: Humboldt-Prize (Undergraduate Thesis), Humboldt-University of Berlin [https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/ueberblick/menschen/ehrungen/humboldtpreis/archiv/humboldt-preis-2021]
• 2021: Johann-Gustav-Droysen-Prize (Undergraduate Thesis), Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-University of Berlin [https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/das-institut/Foerderverein/johann-gustav-droysen-preis/johann-gustav-droysen-preis]