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Lucia Dacome is an Associate Professor and holds the Pauline M.H. Mazumdar Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto, affiliated with Victoria College. Her work bridges multiple disciplines, focusing on early modern Italy and the Mediterranean. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies/Clark Library, and a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at the Centre Alexandre Koyré/CNRS.
Education:
- PhD, University of Cambridge
Her research interests center on the social, cultural, and material histories of bodies, health, and medicine, with a focus on gender, slavery, and race. Key areas include the entanglements of medicine and slavery in Tuscany, medical infrastructure managing enslaved communities, and knowledge exchange through spaces like barbershops and coffee shops. She also explores material culture, women’s roles in anatomical practices, and the intersections of science, art, and religion.
Recent articles reflect her interdisciplinary approach, analyzing topics such as galley slavery in early modern Italy, lazarettos as medical-political borderlands, and women’s contributions to anatomical studies. Her work highlights marginalized communities’ agency in knowledge systems and the societal frameworks influencing medical practices.
Recipient of the 2024 Percy G. Adams Prize for 'Intimate Connections: Marie Marguerite Biheron and her ‘Little Boudoir’' and the 2006 Percy G. Adams Prize for 'To What Purpose Does It Think?: Dreams, Sick Bodies, and Confused Minds in the Age of Reason'.
Advising and grants: Supervised eight PhD students, including Myriam Iuorio and Oana Baboi. Her research has been funded by The Jackman Humanities Institute, I Tatti, SSHRC, and the Pauline Mazumdar Fund. She has also contributed to supervisory committees for students like Denisa Popa and Kathleen Burke.
Current research projects examine the medical and scientific entanglements of enslaved individuals in Livorno, emphasizing their roles in knowledge networks and the material culture of health systems.
