Nancy Siraisi

Who is Nancy Siraisi?

Nancy G. Siraisi is an American historian of medicine, and Distinguished Professor Emerita in History at Hunter College, and City University of New York. Nancy Siraisi received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York. She was a professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

Nancy Siraisi is a leading scholar in the history of medicine and science of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Her research has ranged widely across these two distinct fields, from her first book on the university curriculum in medieval Padua to her current work on the role of doctors in history-writing in the Renaissance.

Through her numerous publications and professional activities Nancy Siraisi has contributed to the growth of the history of science and medicine while also fostering the continued close interaction of these fields with "mainstream" history, notably through her faithful teaching of general medieval and Renaissance history and her insistence on careful contextualization.