Research Team

Maartje is Daily Bread’s project leader and professor of early modern urban history at the University of Amsterdam. She is interested in the social history of politics, the relation between archives and power, the impact of the Little Ice Age on early modern societies, and the history of cities.

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Işın Taylan Çakmak

Işın is a postdoctoral researcher in the Daily Bread project, working on food protests, gender, and archival silencing in early modern Istanbul. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rijksmuseum and previously taught as a lecturer at Yale University. Her dissertation (Yale, 2022) examined material manifestations of scientific changes in Ottoman atlases.

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Marco Ferrari

Marco is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. His research examines urban and political conflict in early modern Northern Italy, with a particular focus on food protests in Genoa during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Marieke Nolten

Marieke is a PhD candidate, focused on food protests in the Dutch Republic. Her field of interest is the intersection of political, social, and cultural history, specifically the relation between protest and memory culture.

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Pim Storm

Pim is a research assistant for the Open Competition project on political participation in the late medieval and early modern Netherlands.

Lennart Vonk

Lennart is a research assistant at the Daily Bread project. His research explores the intersection of early modern social and cultural urban history and the history of knowledge.

Ayşen Tanyeri Abur

Ayşen is a guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam. She is an economist with expertise in food systems and agri-food policies. Her interest is in early modern food systems and food policies in the east and west, culinary outcomes, and food systems transitions. She is currently working on the manuscript “Comparative Patterns of Culinary Change and Persistence in the Mediterranean World”.