Biography
Janna Coomans is an urban historian. Her research focuses on social history and public health in premodern cities. Her dissertation (cum laude) was published in 2021 as Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge University Press). between 2018-2021, she was a post doc in the ERC-project “Healthscaping Urban Europe”, and currently works on the VENI (Dutch Research Council) project “Inflammable cities: how fire risks transformed the Low Countries, 1250-1600”. From april 2022, she is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University
Publications
Monograph: Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
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