Francesca Trivellato
Frederick W. Hilles Professor of History
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 recent The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period (Yale University Press, 2009) won the 2010 AHA Leo Gershoy Award for the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history; is the co-winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for the best book in Early Modern and Modern Jewish History published in English between 2006 and 2010; and was selected for the long list for the 2010 Cundill Prize in History.
Her publications also include a book on Venetian glass manufacturing (Fondamenta dei Vetrai: Lavoro, tecnologia e mercato a Venezia tra Sei e Settecento, Rome: Donzelli, 2000), two co-edited volumes of essays, and numerous articles on craft guilds, merchant networks, and Jewish commercial activities. In her current project, she unearths a forgotten and yet extremely significant chapter in the history of 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.
