#  Anna Speyart 

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 



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Anna Speyart is a social and cultural historian of science working on early modern Europe, focusing on the science and technology of cold in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, tracing the use of ice and snow from harvest to application in scientific, medical, and consumer contexts. Using business records, printed treatises, and legal documents, she recovers how communities around the northern Mediterranean found new ways to apply and understand cold, leveraging local landscapes to commodify and consume ice and snow. Anna received her PhD in History of Science from Princeton University in 2026 and previously studied at the Warburg Institute. Her work has been supported by Dumbarton Oaks, The Medici Archive Project, and the Royal Society, among others.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2026-2027](/fellowship-year/2026-2027)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)