Luca ROSSETTO

LUCA ROSSETTO
CURRICULUM

CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor of History of Political Institutions at Ca' Foscari University of Venice

NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATION AND TRAINING
• Ministry of Education, University and Research: attainment of National Scientific Qualification as full professor for competition sector 14/B01, specifically for scientific disciplinary sector SPS/03 History of Political Institutions, 17/05/2021-17/05/2032
• Ministry of Education, Universities and Research: attainment of National Scientific Qualification as associate professor for competition sector 14/B01, specifically for scientific disciplinary sector SPS/03 History of Political Institutions, 4 December 2014-4 December 2023
• University of Padua: Doctorate in History (grade: excellent) with mention of “Doctor Europaeus” (joint Austrian-English-Italian commission), 2012
• University of Messina, University of Milan, Autonomous University of Madrid, University of Córdoba: Level II Master's Degree in “History and Comparison of Political and Legal Institutions in Mediterranean European Countries” (grade: 110 cum laude), 2004
• Ca' Foscari University of Venice: Degree in History (old system, grade: 110 cum laude), academic year 2001/2002
• Liceo Classico “Giorgione” in Castelfranco Veneto: classical high school diploma (grade: 60/60), 1993

PREVIOUS UNIVERSITY POSITIONS
• Fixed-term University Researcher, Law 240/10, Art. 24, Paragraph 3, Letter b) in History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2020-2023
• Fixed-term University Researcher Law 240/10, Art. 24, paragraph 3, letter a) in History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2017-2020
• Subject expert in History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2015-2017
• Research fellow in History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2013-2015
• Subject expert in History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2012-2013
• Research assistant in History of Political Institutions at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2012
• Graduate Student at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 2010
• Research Fellow in History of Political Institutions at the Department of Historical Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2008-2009
• Research Assistant in History of Political Institutions at the Department of Historical Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2005-2006

TEACHING
• Lecturer in History of the Republic of Venice, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2024-2025
• Lecturer in History of the Mediterranean, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2024-2025
• Lecturer in Venetian History, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2024-2025
• Lecturer in History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Academic Year 2024-2025
• Lecturer in History of the Republic of Venice, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2023-2024
• Lecturer in History of the Mediterranean, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2023-2024
• Lecturer in Venetian History, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2023-2024
• Lecturer in History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2023-2024
• Lecturer in History of the Republic of Venice, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic year 2022-2023
• Lecturer in Mediterranean History, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2022-2023
• Lecturer in History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Academic Year 2022-2023
• Lecturer in History of the Republic of Venice, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic year 2021-2022
• Lecturer in History of the Mediterranean, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic year 2021-2022
• Lecturer in History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Academic Year 2021-2022
• Since 1 October 2019, member of the Teaching Board of the Inter-University Doctoral Programme in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies
• Participation and lecture at the Winter Teaching Week “Justice, Judges, State” of the Inter-University Doctorate of the Universities of Trieste and Udine in “History of societies, institutions and thought from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age”. Udine, 28/01/2018 – 01/02/2019. Lecture title: Justice, judges and judgement in Lombardy-Veneto under the “Metternich system” (1815-1848)
• Lecturer in History of the Republic of Venice, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic year 2020-2021
• Lecturer in History of the Mediterranean, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2020-2021
• Lecturer in History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Academic Year 2020-2021
• Lecturer in History of the Mediterranean, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic Year 2019-2020
• Lecturer in History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2019-2020
• Lecturer in History of the Mediterranean, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Academic year 2018-2019
• Lecturer in History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2018-2019
• Lecturer in Exegesis of Sources for Modern History, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2017-2018
• Lecturer in History of Political and Social Institutions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, academic year 2017-2018
• Teaching assistant for History of the Republic of Venice (institutional aspects through interdisciplinary analysis) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, lecturer
• Teaching assistant for History of the Republic of Venice (institutional aspects through interdisciplinary analysis) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, lecturer Prof. Claudio Povolo, academic year 2016-2017
• Teaching assistant for History of Political Institutions (comparison between Anglo-Saxon countries and continental European countries) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, lecturer Prof. Claudio Povolo, academic year 2016-2017
• Teaching assistant for the course History of the Mediterranean (legal anthropology and comparison with non-European realities) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, lecturer Prof. Claudio Povolo, academic year 2015-2016
• Exam assistant at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, lecturer Prof. Claudio Povolo; courses: History of Political Institutions, History of the Republic of Venice, Venetian History, Mediterranean History, from 2012 to 2017
• Lecturer in the Level II Master's Degree in “History Teaching”, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, November 2008
• Participation, with the drafting of several teaching sheets, in the blended learning experience of the website 'Zanzanù: alle origini del mito. Storia di un uomo che divenne bandito (1603-1617)“ (www.websideofhistory.it) as part of the course on History of Law and Institutions from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age held by Prof. Claudio Povolo of the Department of Historical Studies at Ca” Foscari University of Venice, April 2008 - June 2008
• Participation, with the drafting of several teaching sheets, in the blended learning experience of the website 'The trial for the murder of Giovanni Rama (1831-1833)' (www.websideofhistory.it) as part of the course on the History of Law and Institutions from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age held by Prof. Claudio Povolo of the Department of Historical Studies at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, December 2007 - March 2008

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND AFFILIATIONS
• Internal corresponding member of the Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie (Deputation of National History for the Venetian Region), from 2019 to present
• Member of the Società per gli studi di storia delle istituzioni (Society for the Study of Institutional History), from 2019 to present
• Member of the AISIP (Italian Association for the History of Political Institutions), from 2018 to present
• Chercheur associé at the Unité mixte de recherches Temps, Espaces, Langages, Europe Méridionale, Méditerranée (UMR TELEMME), research centre of the Maison Mediterranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH) and the Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I), as well as a unit of the Institut national des Sciences humaines du CNRS, from 2012 to present (https://telemme.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/membres/Luca_Rossetto)
• Scientific coordinator of the seminar series “Impronte. Storia della città e del suo territorio attraverso le indagini di giovani ricercatori” (Footprints. History of the city and its territory through the research of young researchers), organised by the City of Venice (Municipality of Marghera) and the Department of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, April-October 2016
• Discussant at the seminar “Violence: genesis, control and monopoly”, organised by students of the Master's degree course in History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age at the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, April 2016
• Member of the Venetian research unit (coordinated by Prof. Stefano Petrungaro) in the project “Myths of Legitimation and Government of Difference in the European Imperial Regimes during the Modern and Contemporary Age” (national coordinator Prof. Teodoro Tagliaferri, University of Naples Federico II; other universities involved: University of Florence, University of Trento, University of Trieste) funded by the Ministry of University, 2021-2024
• Member of the Venetian research unit (coordinated by Prof. Claudio Povolo) in the project “Police, judiciary and criminal proceedings in Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries” (national coordinator Prof. Ettore Dezza, University of Pavia) funded by the Ministry of Education, 2011-2013
• Member of the scientific committee of the international conference “Witnesses and testimonies of the past”, organised by the Scientific Research Centre of the University of Primorska (Slovenia) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2008-2009
• Member of the Venetian research unit (coordinated by Prof. Claudio Povolo) in the project “The administration of criminal justice in Lombardy-Veneto” (national coordinator Prof. Gigliola di Renzo Villata, University of Milan) funded by the Ministry of Education, 2005-2007
• Member of the Venetian research unit (coordinated by Prof. Claudio Povolo) in the project “Lawyers and criminal trials in the Republic of Venice between the 17th and 18th centuries” (national coordinator Prof. Antonio Padoa Schioppa, University of Milan) funded by the Ministry of Education, 2005-2007

PARTICIPATION IN JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARDS
• From 2020 to 2025, member of the editorial board of the journal ACTA HISTRIAE (national scientific journal, ANVUR area 14 and international journal)
• Since 2020, member of the editorial board of the journal TERRA D’ESTE (national scientific journal, ANVUR area 14)

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
• Winner of the 35th edition of the Brunacci/Sigillum Monsilicis Prize for Venetian history organised by the Municipality of Monselice, the Veneto Region and the University of Padua, with the book Potere e giustizia nel Veneto di Radetzky. La Commissione militare in Este (1850-1854) (Power and Justice in Radetzky's Veneto. The Military Commission in Este (1850-1854)), 2020 (award ceremony in November 2021)
• Special mention for the book Il commissario distrettuale nel Veneto asburgico. An Imperial Official between Political Mediation and Social Control (1819-1848) by the jury of the 30th edition of the Brunacci/Sigillum Mons Silicis Award for Venetian History organised by the Municipality of Monselice, the Province of Padua, the Veneto Region and the University of Padua, 2014
• Doctoral scholarship at the University of Padua, 2009-2011
• European Union scholarship at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), 2010
• Scholarship at the Study Week “Empires after the Empire in 19th-century Europe” organised by the Trentino Institute of Culture, Centre for Italian-German Historical Studies in Trento, 2005
• Scholarship for the Master's Degree in “History and Comparison of Political and Legal Institutions in Mediterranean European Countries”, Messina, Milan, Madrid, Cordoba, 2004

RESEARCH AREAS
• History of political and social institutions
• History of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia and the Habsburg Empire
• History of the Republic of Venice
• History of the Mediterranean

SPEAKER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
• Venice, September 2024: lectures on the history of the Republic of Venice commissioned by the Ca' Foscari Challenge School for a delegation from Fudan University (Shanghai) visiting Ca' Foscari and the city
• Venice, 17 April 2024, 'Perceptions of Venice. Perspectives, Practices and Narratives in the Modern and Contemporary Age', event organised with funding from the Project of National Interest (PRIN) “Myths of Legitimation and Government of Difference in the European Imperial Regimes during the Modern and Contemporary Age”. Report: “Historiography and historiographical analysis of the Serenissima”.
• Bologna, 16 April 2021, “Criminal justice (16th-19th centuries). Procedures and third parties”. Webinar organised by the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions and the journal “Le Carte e la Storia”.
• Gargnano (Lake Garda, Brescia, Italy), 11-12 October 2019, “Territorial control and environmental disasters: from good governance to civil protection”. International conference organised by the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Milan and the Interuniversity Centre for Studies “The police and territorial control”. Presentation: The “Asian disease” in Austrian Veneto between institutional paralysis and emergency measures: the case of the countryside (1835-1837)
• Rome, 20 November 2018, Presentation of the book “Time and institutions. Writings in honour of Maria Sofia Corciulo”. International meeting organised by the University of Rome La Sapienza and the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions. Participation as author of the essay The justice of the Prince in a great court of the Venetian mainland: the praetorian court of Padua (16th-18th centuries). Historical and documentary aspects
• Gargnano/Tignale (Lake Garda, Brescia, Italy), 26-28 October 2017, 'Guards and thieves. Banditry and crime control in Europe from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age'. International conference organised by the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Milan, the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Interuniversity Centre for Studies “The police and territorial control”. Paper: In the Habsburg Veneto after 1848: the case of Francesco Tenan
• Venice, 9-10-11 June 2016, International Conference organised by the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, “FAIDA. Feud and Blood Feud between Customary Law and Legal Process in Medieval and Early Modern Europe”. Paper: Vendetta and banditry in the second decade of the 17th century: the case of Zuanne Dalle Tavole
• Rome, 18 December 2015, International Seminar organised by the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions, “New Horizons in the History of Institutions”. Presentation: The Military Commission in Este. The precursors, genesis and functioning of a Habsburg judicial institution in rural Venetian society after 1748
• Poreč/Pola (Istria, Croatia), 21-22-23 November 2013, International Conference organised by the State Archives of Poreč, the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula and the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, “The Istrian economy yesterday and tomorrow”. Paper: “May God preserve the Austrian forests”. Two comparative cases from 1849: Montello and Montona
• Messina, 15-16-17 July 2013, International Seminar organised by the Department of Legal Sciences and History of Institutions of the University of Messina, “Towards a survey of 'states of exception”. Emergencies, public order and police forces in Europe: national experiences (17th-20th centuries)'. Report: Emergencies on the periphery of the Empire: the case of the Military Commission in Este in Habsburg Veneto after 1848. A research project
• Koper (Slovenia), 14-15-16 April 2011, International Conference organised by the Scientific Research Centre of the University of Koper (Slovenia) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice as part of the Italy-Slovenia Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013, 'Part Three. Between liturgies of violence and liturgies of peace: mediators, arbitrators, peacemakers and judges'. Report: The district commissioner: an official of the Empire in the Venetian Provinces (1819-1848)
• Koper (Slovenia), 27-28-29 September 2007, International Conference organised by the Scientific Research Centre of the University of Koper (Slovenia) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, “Interpreters of cultures”. Presentation: “One of the last evenings of Carnival” and Habsburg criminal justice in the Veneto region (1832)
• Alleghe (Belluno, Italy), 20 July 2007, Conference organised by the Cross-Border Cooperation Project Unit of the Veneto Region, “The Interreg IV Italy-Austria Operational Programme”. Report: Italy-Austria “Network” Project/Projekt “Netz” Italien-Österreich
• Koper (Slovenia), 23-24-25 October 2003, International Conference organised by the Scientific Research Centre of the University of Koper (Slovenia) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, “Crimes without victims. The victim in the criminal trial scenario”. Report: The role of the victim in the context of international criminal justice: some political, social and legal aspects.

SPEAKER AT CONFERENCES AND NATIONAL MEETINGS
- Web Seminar, 29 December 2025: 'The Italian Society for the History of Institutions talks to Prof. Ernesto Galli Della Loggia about Italian identity, statehood and/or freedom, religiosity and democracy, education for democracy, schools and universities in Italy
• Monselice (Padua), 14 November 2021, “Power and justice in Radetzky's Veneto. The Military Commission in Este (1850-1854)”, presentation of the winning text of the 35th edition of the Brunacci/Sigillum Monsilicis Prize for Venetian history organised by the City of Monselice as part of the 35th edition of the “Brunacci Prizes”.
• University of Teramo, 12 February 2021, “Friday with the author”, seminar organised by the PhD programme in Historical Studies from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age at the University of Teramo. Discussion on Luca Rossetto's book Power and Justice in Radetzky's Veneto. The Military Commission in Este (1850-1854)
• Rome, 18 June 2020, “Epidemics, political institutions and emergency government”. Webinar organised by AISIP (Italian Association of the History of Political Institutions). Presentation: Cholera in Habsburg Veneto between institutional impasse and emergency measures (1835-1837)
• Venice, 27 September 2019, “The Austrian Veneto of the Restoration (1815-1848)”. Visit/lecture organised by Ca' Foscari University of Venice as part of the event “Venetonight. European Researchers” Night 2019'.
• Bologna, 21 June 2019, “The complex art of governing states. Reflections on government”. Debate organised by the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions in collaboration with the publishing house Il Mulino.
• Treviso, Liceo ‘Duca degli Abruzzi’, 15 February 2019. Lecture at the refresher course for teachers of ‘Venetian History’ recognised by the MIUR and organised by the Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri and the Istituto per la Storia della Resistenza e della Società Contemporanea della Marca Trevigiana (Istresco). Title of the lecture: Venice and the government of the mainland. The administration of justice
• Venice, 18 October 2018, “The Military Commission in Este (1850-1854)”. Conference organised by the State Archives of Venice, the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Gabinetto di Lettura in Este. Report: The Military Commission in Este: an institutional profile
• Venice, 28 September 2018, “Austrian Veneto from the Congress of Vienna to Franz Joseph”. Visit/lecture organised by Ca' Foscari University of Venice as part of the event “Venetonight. European Researchers” Night 2018'.
• Este, 12 May 2018, “Beyond the borderline”. Conference organised by the Gabinetto di Lettura in Este, the City of Este and the Department of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Report: The Military Commission in Este (1850-1854): aspects and problems.
• Venice, 29 September 2017, “Austrian Veneto in the judicial documents of the State Archives at Giudecca”. Visit/lecture organised by Ca' Foscari University of Venice as part of the event 'Venetonight. European Researchers' Night 2017'
• Bologna, 7 July 2017, “Contaminations, influences, intersections. History of institutions and other sciences”. Debate organised by the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions in collaboration with the publishing house Il Mulino
• Naples-Salerno, 8-9 November 2016, 'Risorgimento at war. Armies, armed conflicts and political violence in 19th-century Italy'. Research seminar organised by the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II and the Department of Humanities of the University of Salerno, with the patronage of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History and the Society for the Study of the History of Institutions. Report: An “internal enemy”. Social control and deviance in Habsburg Veneto after 1848: the case of the Military Commission in Este. Aspects and problems
• Padua, 21 October 2016, “Initiatives for the 150th anniversary of the annexation of Veneto to the Kingdom of Italy (1866-2016)”. Study seminar organised by the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padua, the Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie (Deputation of National History for the Venetian Region) and the Veneto Section of the Italian National Archival Association, “Archival and library sources for a history of the Veneto in the 19th century”. Report: The historian and the judicial sources of Austrian Veneto Venice,
• Venice, 14 October 2016, Series of seminars organised by the City of Venice (Municipality of Marghera) and the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, “Impronte. History of the city and its territory through the investigations of young researchers”. Report: Feuds, banditry and justice in 17th-century Veneto
• Venice, 2 December 2014, Meeting organised by the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the State Archives of Venice, “On the history of Habsburg Veneto”. Presentation: From the status quo to the state of exception. Habsburg Veneto from Rainer to Radetzky
• Vicenza, 22 October 2011, Conference organised by the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the State Archives of Vicenza and the Galleries of Palazzo Leoni Montanari (Banca Intesa-San Paolo), 'Waiting for the tricolour. Historians recount events, episodes and figures from our history between 1820 and 1866'. Report: The Imperial Provinces of Veneto: a neglected point of view
• Bergamo, 28-29 January 2010, Study Days organised by the Department of Literature, Arts and Multimedia of the University of Bergamo, “Forms and experiences of local policing in the 19th century before unification”. Report: The district commissioner in the Venetian Provinces: a profile (1819-1848)
• Malo (Vicenza), 10 May 2008, Conference and documentary exhibition organised by the Municipality of Malo, the State Archives of Venice and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, “Justice and public order in Lombardy-Veneto (1815-1866)”. Report: On the outskirts of the Empire: notes on the figure of the district commissioner in Lombardy-Veneto (1819-1848)
• Riese Pio X (Treviso), 12 May 2007, Study Day sponsored by the Veneto Region, the Province of Treviso and the Municipality of Riese Pio X, “Venice and the State of Terraferma between history and myth”. Report: The criminal trials delegated by the Council of Ten. Between the administration of justice and control of the Veneto territory (16th-18th centuries)
• Venice, 28 April 2006, Documentary exhibition organised by the State Archives of Venice, “Venetian Criminal Justice”. Report: Criminal justice delegated to Padua (16th-18th centuries). Historical and documentary aspects

ON SICK LEAVE (right thalamic cerebral haemorrhage) FROM 28 APRIL 2021 TO 3 DECEMBER 2021 (Executive Decision No. 2330/2021 Prot. No. 0120755 of 08/11/2021) AND FROM 4 DECEMBER 2021 TO 5 FEBRUARY 2022 (Executive Decision No. 356/2022 Prot. No. 0013160 of 11/02/2022)

Obviously, I have and will continue to have permanent physical disabilities.