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Anna Majeski received a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 2022, where she completed a doctoral dissertation on a remarkable series of astrological fresco cycles completed in Padua between 1300 and 1440. Her research focuses on the intersections of art and science, image and knowledge in the early modern world, and has been supported by pre- and postdoctoral fellowships from the American Academy in Rome and the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti. She joined the American Philosophical Society, Library & Museum, as Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Natural History Exhibition Research Fellow in October 2022, where she curated the exhibition Sketching Splendor: American Natural History, 1750–1850. She is currently researching her monograph, Powerful Images: Art and Astrology in Renaissance Italy. Michelle Craig McDonald is the Librarian/Director of the Library & Museum at the American Philosophical Society. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Michigan where she focused on business relationships and consumer behavior between North America and the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries. She is the co-author of Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern (Pickering & Chatto/Routledge Press, 2011), and has contributed to anthologies published by Oxford University Press, Cornell University Press, Rowman & Littlefield, and Berg Publishers.

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