Federica Gigante Author

Federica Gigante is Research Associate in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge. She is a historian of the material and intellectual exchanges between the Islamic world and Europe in the early modern period. She received a PhD from the Warburg Institute and SOAS and held fellowships at I Tatti (The Harvard Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies), Anamed (Koc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. She worked for several years in a curatorial capacity at the University of Oxford, at the Ashmolean Museum first and History of Science Museum later, where she was in charge of Islamic scientific instruments. She currently leads a ERC-funded project on the role of slavery in the transmission of Islamic material culture and scientific knowledge in the early modern Mediterranean.