Matthew P. Romaniello
Historian and author of Europe's Laboratory: Climate and Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Cornell UP, 2025), specializing in Russian imperial history and the history of medicine and environment.
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Apr 11, 2026 • 1h 11min
Matthew P. Romaniello, "Europe's Laboratory: Climate and Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Matthew P. Romaniello, historian of Russian imperial history and medicine, explores 18th-century naturalists and physicians who mapped Russia’s people, climate, and health. He discusses humoral medicine as ethnography, transnational medical networks, scurvy and variolation campaigns, travel writing biases, and how climate shaped imperial knowledge and reputation.
