Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
José Chabás, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, studies the history of astronomy in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, with special emphasis on astronomical tables, considered as tools to understand mathematical activity at the time and the transmission of astronomical knowledge.
E-mail: jose.chabas@upf.edu
Bernard R. Goldstein, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, has just published with José Chabás Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy (Brill, 2015), the latest joint effort in an ongoing collaboration that began over 20 years ago.
Email: brg@pitt.edu
Justine Isserles is a scientific collaborator at the University Library in Geneva (BGE). She completed her doctorate in 2012 at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) and the University of Geneva, with a study of the corpus of extant Maḥzor Vitry manuscripts. Between 2011 and 2013, she was an associate researcher in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College, London, where she worked on a project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and led by Prof. Sacha Stern, on Jewish and Christian Calendars from Franco-Germany (12th–15th centuries). Her recently published articles related to this project are: “Some Hygiene and Dietary Calendars in Hebrew Manuscripts from Medieval Ashkenaz,” in Time, Astronomy and Calendars in Jewish Tradition, edited by Sacha Stern and Charles Burnett (Leiden: Brill, 2014): 273-326; and, with P. Nothaft, “Calendars beyond Borders: Exchange of Calendrical Knowledge Between Jews and Christians in Medieval Western Europe (12th–15th c.),” Medieval Encounters 20 (2014): 1–37. Email: jisserles26@gmail.com [End Page 1]
Rachel S. A. Pear completed her PhD within the Science Technology and Society Graduate Program at Bar Ilan University in 2013. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Haifa, where she is examining Israeli receptions of evolution, as well as a teaching fellow at Bar-Ilan University.
Email: RachelS.A.Pear@gmail.com.
Sacha Stern is head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London and principal investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant project at UCL on Calendars in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Standardization and Fixation. He is the author of Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd cent. BCE-10th cent. CE (Oxford 2001) and of Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies (Oxford 2012). Some of his research on ancient and medieval calendars has appeared previously in Aleph.
Email: sacha.stern@ucl.ac.uk2 [End Page 2]
