Education

• 2012 – 2016 Bachelor of Arts in History and Romance Philology (French/Italian), Ruhr-University Bochum and University of Pisa (2013/2014)
• 2016 – 2019 Master of Arts in History and Romance Philology (Italian), Ruhr-University Bochum
• since 11/2019 prae doc at the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna

• Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Research

• Economic and Social History of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods
• History of Italy and the Mediterranean
• Labour History
• Mediterranean Slavery in Premodern Times
• Historical Semantics

Current Research Project

• PhD Project: “She wants to do it her own way.” Enslaved Women, Their Work, and Their Children in the Datini Merchant Community, 1380s–1410s (submitted April 2024)

Publications

• Batista, Anamarija, Viola Franziska Müller, and Corinna Peres, eds. Coercion and Wage Labour. London: UCL Press, 2024. [“Introduction: Coercion and Wage Labour in History and Art,” Link]
• Peres, Corinna. “Sex with Slaves? Hush, amico!” Fernetzt, Online-Blog, May 2024 (under review).
• Peres, Corinna. “Female Work Arrangements in the Datini Letters. Exploring the Semantic Roles and Negotiating Scopes of Servants, Slaves, and Wet Nurses.” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 34, no. 2 (2023): 126–149 [Link].
• Peres, Corinna. “Lost in Transcription. Remunerated Breastfeeding and Enslaved Mothers in Late Medieval Tuscany.” Online-Blog, Conference “Freedom & Work in Western Europe”, University of Exeter, 2022.
• Peres, Corinna/Schiel, Juliane. “Searching for a Wet Nurse: Prato, 1395–98.” Data Story, Bielefeld University, 2021.

Networks and Activities

• Curator and Dramaturg (with Anamarija Batista) of the Exhibition “Coercion and Wage Labour”, international conference of the research networks COST Action WORCK and European Labour History Network (ELHN), Campus of the University of Vienna, 30 August – 3 September 2021, Link (virtual exhibition).
• COST Action “Worlds of Related Coercions in Work” (WORCK), Management Committee Member (Substitute for Austria), Coordinator “Public Outreach” (2020–2024)
• Associate Member of the Research Group “Figurations of Inequality” at the University of   Vienna (since January 2020)
• Member of the Research Area “Economy and Society” at the University of Vienna (since December 2019)

Teaching

2023S

• BA Guided Reading: Sources for the Study of Mediterranean Slavery (Late Middle Ages–Early Modern Period) (in German)

2022W

• BA Seminar: Slavery in the Mediterranean (1350–1750) (in German)

2021W

• BA Guided Reading: Sources for the History of Slavery (in German)

2021S

• MA Workshop on Methods (with Juliane Schiel): Datini Goes Digital. Historical Semantics as an Approach to Social History (in German)
• BA Seminar (with Juliane Schiel): Letters in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (in German)

2020W

• BA Guided Reading: Mediterranean Slaveries Between Medieval and Early Modern Times (in German)