Marina Inì

Dr. Marina Inì is an Assistant Professor in Early Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Churchill College. Her research focuses on material culture, history of medicine, spatial and urban history, and cross-cultural encounters in the early modern Mediterranean. She holds a BA from Università degli Studi di Trento, an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (Girton College).

Her current project, SEPOLCRI, investigates funerary practices and urban diversity in early modern Italy and is supported by a Horizon MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship at La Sapienza in Rome. She has been awarded the Rome Award and was shortlisted for the 2024 Alexander Prize for her Historical Journal article on quarantine and cross-cultural encounters.

Her research trends emphasize the role of quarantine infrastructure (lazzaretti) in shaping Mediterranean socio-cultural dynamics, methodological innovations in historical-archival research, and the intersection of architecture with public health. She has published extensively on these topics in journals like Historical Journal and Social History of Medicine.

• Awards: Alexander Prize Shortlist (2024), Rome Award (British School at Rome), Horizon MSCA Fellowship

Her advising and grants include the Horizon Fellowship and prior support from the British School at Rome. She is affiliated with the Department of History at Cambridge and actively contributes to public history through blogs like Doing History in Public.