Rachele SCURO

Position
Research Grant Holder
E-mail
rachele.scuro@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/rachele.scuro (personal record)
Office
Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities

Research areas

- History of Venice and the Venetian State;

- Medieval and early modern Jewish history in Italy, Western Europe, and the Mediterranean area;

- Economic and social history of late medieval and early modern Italy;

- History of banking and the credit market in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

 

Current Position

Research fellow: Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (assegnista di ricerca) (Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2023)

Team member of the project "Water-Cultures. The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900" (ERC Advanced Grant n° 833834, PI prof. D. Gentilcore)

 

 

Current professional collaborations as 'teaching assistant'

Cultrice della materia in Economic History at the Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università degli Studi di Verona (since Dec. 2020)

 

Previous jobs

Teaching activity: Course "History of Venice", Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, SIE (a.y. 2021/2022).

 

Research fellow: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quatitativi e Strategie di Impresa. (Jan-Dec. 2021)

 

Research fellow: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali (Oct. – Dec. 2020)

 

Research fellow: Università degli Studi di Verona, Polo scientifico didattico “Studi sull’Impresa” (Nov. 2019 – Aug. 2020)

 

Research fellow: Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Istituto di Storia dell’Arte, Centro Studi del Vetro (Venice) (May – Nov. 2019)

 

Postdoctoral research contractor-assistant: University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art (Jun. 2018 – Sept 2019)

 

Postdoctoral research fellow: Universität Basel, Departement Geschichte (Apr. 2016 – Mar. 2018)

With teaching activity up to July 2018.

 

Research fellow: Fondazione di Storia, Vicenza (Italy) (Jul. 2014 – Dec. 2015)

 

Research fellow: Centro Studi “Renato Bordone” sui Lombardi, il Credito e la Banca” of Asti, Italy (Mar. – Feb. 2010)

 

Education

Dottorato di ricerca (Ph.D.): Storia e Archeologia del Medioevo, Istituzioni e Archivi (History and Archeology of the Middle Ages, Institutions and Archives); Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy (2012).

 

Laurea v.o.: Storia (History); Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy (2004).

 

Master I livello in Digital Humanities; Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (2019)

 

Diploma in Archival Studies, Palaeography and Diplomatics; Archivio di Stato di Venezia (2015).

 

Membership of professional associations

-      E.H.S. (The Economic History Society, 2007 - present);

-      A.I.S.G. (Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo, 2008 - present);

-      R.S.A. (The Renaissance Society of America, 2013 - present);

-      E.A.J.S. (European Association for Jewish Studies, 2017 – present);

-      A.I.S.U. (Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana, 2022 -).