Notes on the Editors
Jennifer Ferng
is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and B.DesArch (honours) M.Arch Program Director at the University of Sydney. Her research addresses environmental and humanitarian histories from the eighteenth century into the present day, across Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Her first book Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks was published by Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment and the Voltaire Foundation (2021).
Lauren Jacobi
Lauren Jacobi has been an Associate Professor of architectural history in the History, Theory + Criticism section of the Department of Architecture, MIT. Her publications include The Architecture of Banking: Constructing the Spaces of Money (2019). She is pursuing a Master of Divinity at Yale University where she is working on a book project about how aquatic domains were thought of theologically and defined through legal jurisdiction in the late medieval Mediterranean world.