Francesca Trivellato
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, History
Office: HGS 235 (DGS), HGS 2680
Phone: (203) 432-1361 (DGS), 432-4120
Email: francesca.trivellato@yale.edu
Links: Curriculum Vitae
Francesca Trivellato specializes in the social and economic history of Italy and Mediterranean Europe in the early modern period.
Her publications include The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period (Yale University Press, 2009), a book on Venetian glass manufacturing (Fondamenta dei Vetrai: Lavoro, tecnologia e mercato a Venezia tra Sei e Settecento, Rome: Donzelli, 2000), and two co-edited books of essays, including Trans-regional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond: Experiences since the Middle Ages, with Christopher H. Johnson, David Warren Sabean, and Simon Teuscher. She has published numerous articles on craft guilds, merchant networks, and Jewish commercial activities. Her current book project is The “Jewish” Bill of Exchange: A Forgotten Chapter in European Debates about Jews and Capitalism.
She received her BA from the University of Venice, Italy (1995), a PhD in economic and social history from the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan (1999), and a PhD in history from Brown University (2004). The American Council of Learned Societies and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University recently supported her scholarship.
Her undergraduate and graduate teaching spans many themes in the history and historiography of early modern Europe, Renaissance Italy, and the Mediterranean, as well as economic history.
