Francesca Trivellato

Francesca Trivellato (born 1970) is an Italian historian, focusing on cultural, economic and social history in the early modern period.

She received a BA in history from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice in 1995,[2] where she worked under the supervision of Giovanni Levi.

During her time as a BA student, she spent a year at the University of California Berkeley.

[4][6] Her 2009 book, The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period won the 2010 Leo Gershoy Award,[7] a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award and was long-listed for the Cundill Prize.

She was a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Monash University (Melbourne), Sciences Po (Paris) and Stanford.