Rachele SCURO

Position: Adjunct Professor

E-mail: rachele.scuro@unive.it

Website: https://www.unive.it/people/rachele.scuro (personal record)

Office: Ca' Foscari School for International Education
Website: https://www.unive.it/pag/9915/

Office hours

Office hours
During the course (September-November 2026), office hours will be held remotely (via GMeet) every Friday from 09:00 to 10:00.
To schedule an appointment and get the meeting link, please email me at rachele.scuro@unive.it in advance.

Additional office hours will be arranged closer to the exam period, with details to follow.

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity a.y. 2026/2027

SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION [SIE]
Corso di Perfezionamento

STORIA DI VENEZIA (6 cfu) [SIE008]

Teaching activity previous years

Teaching activity a.y. 2025/2026

SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION [SIE]
Corso di Perfezionamento

STORIA DI VENEZIA (6 cfu) [SIE008]

Teaching activity a.y. 2024/2025

SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION [SIE]
Corso di Perfezionamento

STORIA DI VENEZIA (6 cfu) [SIE008]

Teaching activity a.y. 2023/2024

SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION [SIE]
Corso di Perfezionamento

STORIA DI VENEZIA (6 cfu) [SIE008]

Teaching activity a.y. 2022/2023

SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION [SIE]
Corso di Perfezionamento

STORIA DI VENEZIA (6 cfu) [SIE008]

Teaching activity a.y. 2021/2022

SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION [SIE]
Corso di Perfezionamento

STORIA DI VENEZIA (6 cfu) [SIE008]

Activities and research skills

General information

Publication highlights

Rachele Scuro Il (ri)uso delle merci come moneta alternativa nel mercato del credito: il caso veneto nel primo Rinascimento in RICERCHE STORICHE, vol. 56, pp. 75-94 (ISSN 0392-162X)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5117591

Rachele Scuro Neither Pledge Nor Cash: Money-Equivalent Goods in the Renaissance Venetian Credit Market , Monetary and Non-Monetary Payment Systems. Forms and Practices in Europe and the Colonial World from 14th to 20th Century, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 101-134 (ISBN 978-3-032-11809-7; 978-3-032-11810-3; 978-3-032-11812-7)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5117380

Rachele Scuro Water-power in pre-industrial Veneto. Management and transformation of hydraulic energy through the archives of the Venetian magistrate of the “Provveditori sopra i Beni Inculti” in JOURNAL OF ENERGY HISTORY, vol. 13, pp. 1-16 (ISSN 2649-3055)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5099267

Rachele Scuro Recensione di: Uomini e fiumi. Per una storia idraulica ed agraria della bassa pianura del Po (1450–1620), di Franco Cazzola in NUNCIUS, vol. 39, pp. 223-227 (ISSN 0394-7394)
DOI 2024, Review in magazine - ARCA card: 10278/5050600

Scuro, Rachele Building the ghetto: the many facets of Venetian Jewry in the sixteenth century , The many faces of early modern Italian Jewry. Religious, cultural, and social identities, De Gruyter, pp. 239-260 (ISBN 9783111049151)
DOI 2024, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5065901

List of publications

List of publications

List of selected publications

Curriculum vitae

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 money, banking and the credit market in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Awarded the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor in Economic History.

Current Position

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Economic History at Pegaso University (since July 2026).

Adjunct Professor in "History of Venice" at 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 (Dec. 2020-2026)

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 di Pavia (Apr 2025 - Jun 2026).

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

- EHS (The Economic History Society, 2007 - present);

- AISG (Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo, 2008 - present);

- RSA (The Renaissance Society of America, 2013 - present);

- EAJS (European Association for Jewish Studies, 2017 – present);

- AISU (Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana, 2022 -);

- ARISE (Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca in Storia economica, 2024 - present).

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