Silvia CARRARO

CAREER SUMMARY
During my career, I have accrued a vast experience in research an in the critical analysis of medieval documents, in the management of complex data with information technologies, in the organisation of scientific conferences, in the scientific dissemination of research, and in the diffusion of my research to a non-specialist audience. My research focuses on the history of gender and religious history, giving particular attention to the relationship between institutions and personal microhistories. Recently, I have begun to focus my studies and research on the history of disability and of mental illness. For my gender research, I was awarded the “Franca Pieroni Bortolotti” International Award. My principal publications include: La laguna delle donne. In monachesimo femminile a Venezia tra IX e XIV secolo (2015); «Non ha utilità adguna alcuna». Essere disabile nel medioevo (2017); Alter-habilitas. Percezione della disabilità nei popoli (2018); Raccontare la follia. Le carte dell’ospedale psichiatrico San Giacomo di Tomba di Verona (2019).

EDUCATION
01/01/2009-29/03/2012          Ph.D. in MEDIEVAL HISTORY. Department of Historical Studies, University of Milan, Italy. Scholarship granted after selection procedure. Tutor: Ester Elisa Occhipinti. Dissertation: Tra sacro e quotidiano. Il monachesimo femminile nella laguna di Venezia in epoca medievale (secoli IX-XIV).

10/09/1999-24/10/2008          M.A. in HISTORY .Department of History, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Tutor: Anna Maria Rapetti. Dissertation: Società e religione nella Venezia medievale. Il monastero di San Lorenzo di Castello (110/110 cum laude).

08/11/2011-07/11/2013          Diploma in Archive Studies, Palaeography and Diplomacy, School of Archive Paleographic and Diplomatic Studies, State Archives of Venice.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

01/07/2017-30/06/2019          POST DOCTORAL RESEARCHER. Department of Cultures and Civilisations, University of Verona. Fellowship obtained after selection procedure. Project: The Archive of the Psychiatric Hospital San Giacomo alla Tomba: A Heritage to Discover, included in the project “Carte da Legare”, (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism of Italy). Principal Investigator: Marina Garbellotti.

01/01/2019-31/01/2019          RESEARCH COLLABORATOR. Department of Humanities, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Research project: Research into Examination of the notarial documentation of the XII-XIV century preserved in the State Archives of Venice. Society, institutions, religion. Principal investigator: Anna Rapetti.

01/03/2018-31/03/2018          RESEARCH COLLABORATOR. Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Research project: Identification of the notarial documentation, with particular reference to the last will and testaments of the doges, preserved in the State Archives of Venice. Principal investigator: Anna Rapetti.

01/01/2016-31/12/2016          POST DOCTORAL RESEARCHER. Department of Cultures and Civilisations, University of Verona. Fellowship obtained after selection procedure. Project ITEM. Catalogi bibliothecarum Italici medii recentiorisque Aevi, included in the RICABIM project (Repertory of Inventories and Catalogues of Medieval Libraries - International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture, SISMEL, Florence) and in PRIN (Relevant National Interests Project) of the Italian Ministry of Education Repertorio delle fonti inventariali librarie dell’Europa latina (sec. VIII-1520): Principal Investigator: Massimiliano Bassetti.

01/06/2015-30/09/2015          RESEARCH COLLABORATOR AND ORGANISATIONAL SUPPORT. Department of Cultures and Civilisations, University of Verona. Project: Archival research at the State Archives of Florence and support for the organisation of the concluding conferences of the PRIN project – Concepts, institutional practice of a discipline: the Italian medievalist in the XIX and XX centuries. Principal investigator: Gian Maria Varanini.

01/06/2013-30/09/2013          INFORMATIC AND RESEARCH COLLABORATOR. Department of Cultures and Civilisations, University of Verona. Project: Collection and Cataloging in Electronic Format of the Archival Sources of East Veneto (personal data, last will and testaments, notarial protocols) for the construction of the database of adoption and forestage in Italy. Principal Investigator: Maria Clara Rossi.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
01/01/2020-29/02/2020          MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL SUPPORT. Italian Association of Women Historians. Training course: Keywords in the History of Gender Relations in the West (Padua, 5-13 February 2020).

01/11/2018-31/03/2019          ORGANISATIONAL SUPPORT. Italian Association of Women Historians. Organisation of the Congress: Women’s Work in European Cities between the Modern and Contemporary Age, (Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti of Brescia, 22 March 2019).

01/02/2017-30/04/2017          TUTOR. Italian Association of Women Historians. Training course: Women in History: The Didactics of History in a Gender Prospective (University of Padua).

PRIZES AND AWARDS
22/01/2017      Honorable mention: “XXXI Premio Brunacci per la storia veneta” (Monselice).

11/12/2014      Grant: “Franca Pieroni Bortolotti Award - XX edizione” of the Italian Association of Women Historians for the Ph.D. dissertation

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2020-          Interviews editing: Le parole della Storia  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcroFk1Z1sSaC9ltttS__yw

2020           Seminar: Oral presentation: “Editing, Tips and Tricks”, Alteritas – Interazione tra i popoli, (Alteritas - Interaction among Peoples), University of Milan (28 January 2020).

2018           Editing of Exhibition: “Prima della legge Basaglia. Il manicomio di Verona attraverso le sue carte”, (A. Frinzi Central Library, Verona, Italy, 18 May 2018-30 August 2018).

2018           Organisation of Annual Course and other communication activities of Societas Veneta per la storia religiosa.

2018           Documentary Lab “The History of Insane Asylums”, Liceo scientifico G. Galilei (27 April 2018, Dolo, Italy).

2017           Peer Reviewer for the scientific review Reti Medievali, Melanges Ecole Française de Rome, Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale

2016           Co-supervisor of one master student in Inter-university Master’s degree in Historical Studies, (University of Verona and University of Trento).

AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Member of Board – Societas Veneta per la Storia Religiosa;

Member of Società delle Storiche Italiane;

Member of Alteritas – Interazione tra i popoli;

Member of Consulta Universitaria per la Storia del Cristianesimo e delle Chiese.