Rachele SCURO

Position
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
rachele.scuro@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/rachele.scuro (personal record)
Office
Ca' Foscari School for International Education
Website: https://www.unive.it/pag/9915/

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.

 

Award of the National Scientific Habilitation (Associate Professorship) in Economic History.

 

Current Position

Research fellow: Università di Pavia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (assegnista di ricerca) (Apr. 2025 - Mar. 2027)

Lecturer in "History of Venice", Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

 

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)

Cultrice della materia in Early Modern History at the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (since 2025).

 

Previous jobs

Research fellow: Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, team member of the project "Water-Cultures. The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900" (ERC Advanced Grant n° 833834, PI prof. D. Gentilcore) (Jan 2022 - Mar 2025).

 

Teaching activity: Course "History of Venice", Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, SIE (a.y. 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025).

 

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 -).