Francesca Trivellato

Francesca Trivellato at the Festival of Economics in Trento in 2018

Francesca Trivellato (Padova, 1970) is a 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.

Trivellato received a BA in history from the University of Venice in 1995, where she worked under the supervision of Giovanni Levi. 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, Milan in 1999 and a PhD in history from Brown University, Rhode Island in 2004.^[1] At Brown she worked under the supervision of Anthony Molho.

Trivellato began working at Yale University as an Assistant Professor in History in 2004 and in 2007^[2] became a full professor. In 2012 she became the Frederick W. Hilles Professor at Yale University and in 2017 the Barton Biggs professor.^[3]

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,^[4] a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award and was long-listed for the Cundill Prize.^[1]

She was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.^[2] she held fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for advanced study, the American Academy in Berlin and at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). She was a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Monash University (Melbourne) and Science Po (Paris).

In December 2017, it was announced that from 1 July 2018, Trivellato would be joining the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.^[2]

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