About Corinna Peres

Corinna Peres is a PhD candidate and former university assistant (Universtitätsassistentin praedoc) at the Department of Economic and Social History (2019–2024) at the University of Vienna, Austria. She received her Master of Arts degree with distinction in History and Romance Philology/Literature from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and held research grants from the German Historical Institute in Rome, Italy, and the COST Action “Worlds of Related Coercions in Work”. Corinna’s research interests lie in the history of labour, slavery, and inequalities, with a special focus on the late medieval Mediterranean. She is co-editor of Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art (UCL Press, 2024) and author of “Female Work Arrangements in the Datini Letters. Exploring the Semantic Roles and Negotiating Scopes of Servants, Slaves, and Wet Nurses,” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 34, no. 2 (2023): 126–149. For more information (and a full academic CV), see her profile on the website of the department.