Francesca Trivellato
Professor
Office: HGS 2680
Phone: (203) 432-4120
Email: francesca.trivellato@yale.edu
Links: Curriculum Vitae
Professor Trivellato specializes in the social and economic history of Italy, continental Europe and the Mediterranean in the early modern period.
She is the author of The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period (Yale University Press, forthcoming in 2008) and of a book on Venetian glass manufacturing (Fondamenta dei Vetrai: Lavoro, tecnologia e mercato a Venezia tra Sei e Settecento, Rome: Donzelli, 2000). She has also published several essays on craft guilds, women's work, and merchant networks.
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). She has been recently awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
Her teaching includes courses on Renaissance Italy, European trade, the Inquisition, Venice and the Mediterranean, and the history and historiography of early modern Europe.
