Biography 

Guy Geltner studied at the Hebrew University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, before earning a PhD in history from Princeton University in 2006. After a four-year stint at Oxford he moved to the University of Amsterdam. His research is mainly based on materials excavated from Italian archives, and concerns crime and punishment, the mendicant orders, and (increasingly) urban public health--in all cases working predominantly in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He strives to work across modern fields and disciplines, especially as a means to challenge some of the more common assumptions about the boundaries between pre/modernity.

Project Summary

During his I Tatti stint Guy intends to make substantial progress on his current main project, "Healthscaping the Early Renaissance City." It is a comparative study of how urban individuals, organizations and governments defined problems and devised solutions to what they considered--and in their own terms--as health risks.