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  • Contributors for Volume 41, Number 1

Joseph Bradley is professor of history at the University of Tulsa. His Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism and Civil Society was published by in 2009; a Russian translation was published in Moscow in 2012. His earlier publications include Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late-Imperial Russia (1985) and Guns for the Tsar: American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-Century Russia (1990). He has been awarded grants by NEH, IREX, the Kennan Institute, the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, the Hoover Institution, and Fulbright.

Bert De Munck is a professor in the department of history at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has published on urban history, craft guilds and apprenticeship, vocational training, and the circulation of knowledge and the “repertoires of evaluation” regarding skills and products. His publications include Technologies of Learning: Apprenticeship in Antwerp from the 15th Century to the End of the Ancien Régime (2007) and Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities (2012) (co-edited with Anne Winter).

Jan Hein Furnée is professor in European cultural history at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on urban leisure culture, class and gender relations, and cultural policy in the nineteenth century. In 2012, he published Plaatsen van beschaafd vertier: Standsbesef en stedelijke cultuur in Den Haag, 1850–1890. With Clé Lesger he edited The Landscape of Consumption: Shopping Streets and Cultures in Western Europe, c. 1600–1900. He is chief editor of the Flemish-Dutch journal Stadsgeschiedenis and secretary of the European Association for Urban History.

David Garrioch is professor of history at Monash University, Australia. He has written on eighteenth-century Paris and Milan, early modern European urban history, and the Enlightenment, notably on friendship, philanthropy, and cosmopolitanism. His most recent book is The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom (2014). His current projects include a history of religious confraternities in Paris before the French Revolution and a fire history of European cities in the early modern period.

Isabel dos Guimarães Sá teaches early modern European history at the history department of the University of Minho and is a researcher of Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade of the same university. She has researched widely in the fields of history of Portugal and its empire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and has written several books on the Portuguese confraternities of misericórdia, as well as several biographies of Portuguese queens (Leonor de Lencastre, Isabel and Maria of Castile and Aragon). [End Page 139]

Nicholas Terpstra is professor in early modern history at the university of Toronto, working on Renaissance and early modern Italy, social and political history, and reform movements. His books include Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World (2015) and Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy (2013), which won the Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association and the Goodhart Gordan Prize of the Renaissance Society of America. He has also edited a number of collections including Faith’s Boundaries: Laity and Clergy in Early Modern Confraternities (2012) and The Art of Executing Well: Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy (2008).

Maarten Van Dijck is assistant professor of history and theory in the social science at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a member of the Center for Historical Culture at this university. His teaching and research focus on the relation between history and the social sciences. His current research interests are the development of civil societies and public spheres in the Low Countries from the Middle Ages until the middle of the nineteenth century. He also publishes about criminality, behavior patterns, social inequality, and social network analysis in the late medieval and early modern period. [End Page 140]

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