Rosa Miriam Salzberg

Via Verdi, 26 - 38122 Trento
tel. 0461 281335
rosa.salzberg[at]unitn [dot] it

Education
  • 2015 Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education following         successful completion of a Masters-level course, University of Warwick 
  • 2009  Awarded PhD, Dept. of History, Queen Mary College, University of London                  Thesis entitled: From Printshop to Piazza: The Dissemination of Cheap Print in Cinquecento Venice
  • 2004 Masters by research, Dept. of History, University of Melbourne                                        Passed with First Class Honours 
  • 2002 Bachelor of Arts (hons), University of Melbourne                                                              First Class Honours in History  
Academic career and teaching activities
  • 2021 -  Associate Professor of Early Modern History, Department of Sociology and Social   Research, University of Trento
  • 2010 - 2021 Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance History, Department of History,      University of Warwick, UK (promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor in 2015)
  • 2008 Temporary Lecturer in Italian Renaissance History, Department of History, University   of Melbourne, Australia
Research interests

History of migration and mobility in early modern Europe; Urban history; History of                        communication; Venice and its empire

Research work
  • 2016 - 2019 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, Department of History and Civilization,           European University Institute (EUI), Florence, with the project Renaissance Migropolis:   Mobility, Migration and the Politics of Reception in Venice (1450-1650) 
  • 2017 - 2019  Member of the project European Dimensions of Popular Print (EDPOP)            supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) 
  • 2012 - 2015 Second PI of Leverhulme Trust (UK) International Network Grant project          Luxury and the Manipulation of Desire 
  • 2011- 2015  Member of Advisory Board for the European Research Council-funded project    Italian Voices: Oral Culture, Manuscript and Print in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700, based at the University of Leeds, UK
  • 2009 - 2010 UK Society for Renaissance Studies Ruth and Nicolai Rubinstein Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 2009 Australian European University Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, European                         University Institute (EUI), Florence
  • 2009 Interdisciplinary summer school on Spaces and Publics at McGill University, Montreal, as part of project Making Publics in Early Modern Europe, financed by Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
  • 2008 UK Society for Renaissance Studies Travel Fellowship to fund research in Venice

 

 

Memberships in societies and scientific committees

2017 -  Honourary Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Emotions in Cross-Cultural Exchange,    Croatia

2012 - 21 Member of the Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash        University, Prato

Awards and honours
  • 2016 - 2019   European Research Council Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, European University Institute, for the project Renaissance Migropolis: Mobility, Migration and the Politics of Reception in Venice (1450-1650) (180,277 euro)
  • 2017 Gladys Krieble Delmas Prize awarded by the Renaissance Society of America for the  best book published in Venetian studies in 2014-15 (for Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and   Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice)
  • 2016 Renaissance Society of America Paul Oskar Kristeller Travel Grant to fund research in Venice 
  • 2013 - 2014 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Award to fund research in Venice     
  • 2012 - 2015 Leverhulme Trust (UK) International Network Grant for the project Luxury and the Manipulation of Desire (Second PI) (£79,828)
  • 2009 - 2010 UK Society for Renaissance Studies Ruth and Nicolai Rubinstein Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2009 Australian European University Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, European                    University Institute 
  • 2008 UK Society for Renaissance Studies Travel Fellowship to fund research in Venice
  • 2006 - 2007 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Award to fund research in Venice
  • 2005 - 2008 Overseas Research Studentship (ORSAS) awarded by British Government
  • 2005 - 2008 Rae and Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarship, to fund PhD at the University of London