Technologies of Violence - Scholars' Database

This is the initial version of the Technologies of Violence Database. The database will be revised at a later date, to include more entries and perhaps a new format.

The Technologies of Violence project seeks to gain new insight into the nature, uses, and consequences of technologies of violence in the early modern global world, by bringing together scholars with an interest in this topic. This page contains a working database of scholars working on ths topic across a range of disciplines, time-periods, and regions. The aim of the database is to allow scholars to connect, and so help shape new projects by bringing potential collaborators together as they form their ideas and focuses for workshops, publications, and other research outputs.

If you are interested in being added to the database, please use the contact form below to contact me. Any and all scholars can join the database, regardless of career stage or academic affiliation. If you wish to leave the database, please contact me and I will remove you from the page as soon as is possible.

Notes on the database: this is an evolving project, and the format and content of this page may change. Scholars in the database may suggest any key words they find useful for the 'interests' section, but I reserve the right to trim them or make minor adjustments to them. The main languages section is to indicate in which languages scholars are happy speaking and writing in order to collaborate on projects, to facilitate international cooperation beyond the English language; many of the scholars in the database use languages other than those listed for research.

Database:

Klára Andresová
Interests: Military handbooks, Soldiers' lives, Thirty Years' War, 16th and 17th century, Military camps
Main languages: Czech, English, German
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Brice Cossart
Interests: artillery (land & sea), Iberian empires, military technicians (profile, career, apprenticeship), global circulations, knowledge & skills.
Main languages: French, Spanish, English, Italian
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Jean-Dominique Delle Luche
Interests: Holy Roman Empire and Swiss Confederacy, shooting societies, shooting festivals, firearms and crossbow (craft, trader, social practice and sociability).
Main languages: French, German, English
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Clare Griffin
Interests: Firearms, wounds, Russian empire
Main languages: English, Russian
Website: www.claregriffin.org
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Amanda Madden
Interests: Renaissance and Early Modern Italy, Vendetta and Feud, Law, Gender and Violence, Violence and the State
Main languages: English, Italian
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Alexandr Malov / Александр Витальевич Малов
Interests: Early Modern Russia, 16th-17th Centuries, Army, War, Weapons
Main languages: Russian, Polish, English
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Michael Oberg
Interests: Indigenous North America
Main languages: English
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Colin Rose
Interests: Early Modern Global / Europe / Italy, interpersonal violence, firearms, law/justice, plague, medicine, GIS
Main languages: English, Italian
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Dan Spencer
Interests: Medieval and early modern military history, Gunpowder Weapons, Artillery fortifications, Castles
Main languages: English
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Shaun Sayres
Interests: Colonialism and Empire, Native America, the Atlantic World, Gunpowder, Steam power
Main languages: English
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Erik Thompson
Interests: Military technology, finance, early modern Europe, Thirty Years' War
Main languages: English, French, Swedish
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The aim of this database is to help scholars expand their list of contacts as they put together collaborations. If you are looking for potential collaborators, you may also find the following websites useful:

https://wendybelcher.com/african-literature/ethiopianists/
https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/