Francesca Trivellato - Festival Economia 2018

Francesca Trivellato (born 1970) is an Italian historian, focusing on cultural, economic and social history in the early modern period. Her publications have covered Italian history, Jewish history and trade and cultural networks. She is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the

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Biography

Trivellato was born in

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. She received a BA in history from the

University of Venice Ca' Foscari University of Venice ( it, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, simply Università Ca' Foscari) is a public university in Venice, Italy. Since its foundation in 1868, it has been housed in the Venetian Gothic palace of Ca' Foscari, from w ...

in 1995, where she worked under the supervision of

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. During her time as a BA student, she spent a year at the University of California Berkeley. She took a PhD in social history from

Bocconi University Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and computer sci ...

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in 1999 and a PhD in history from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

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, in 2004. At Brown she worked under the supervision of Anthony Molho. Trivellato began working at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

as an assistant professor in history in 2004 and in 2007 became a full professor. In 2012, she became the Frederick W. Hilles Professor at

and in 2017 the Barton Biggs professor. In December 2017, it was announced that from 1 July 2018, Trivellato would be joining the School for Historical Studies at the

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. Her 2009 book, ''The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period'' won the 2010

Leo Gershoy Award The Leo Gershoy Award is a book prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best publication in English dealing with the history of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Endowed in 1975 by the Gershoy family and first ...

, a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award and was long-listed for the

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. She was awarded with a

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in 2012. She has held fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the American Academy in Berlin and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She was a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Monash University (Melbourne) and Science Po (Paris). * Jacques Barzun Prize (2020)

Publications

Books

* ''The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period'' (2009) * ''The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society'' (2019)

Edited volumes

* (with Leo Halevi and Cátia Antunes) ''Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000–1900'' (2014) * (with

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) ''Jews in Early Modern Europe'' (2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trivellato, Francesca 1970 births Living people Ca' Foscari University of Venice alumni Bocconi University alumni Brown University alumni Women historians