Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and teaches at the University of Glasgow. He received his PhD from Harvard, supervised by David Herlihy, in 1978. He has published thirteen monographs, three edited volumes, and over 100 articles in journals such as Past & Present, Economic History Review, Social History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Les Annales, and Studi
Storici. Over the past two decades, he has taught and published on two broad themes: the history of plagues and the history of popular insurrection. In 2017 he was the first 'Federico Chabod Visiting Professor', L'Università degli Studi, Milano (Statale).