CV

 Education and Experience 

• 1990-1995 BA and MA - Art History - University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
• 1996-2001 Scuola di Specializzazione in Medieval and Early Modern Art History University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
• 1998-1999 Master - Management and Communication of Cultural Heritage - Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa
• 1999- 2001 Researcher – Scuola Normale Superiore - CRIBECU Pisa.
• 2002-2005 PhD in Early Modern History - University of Florence
• 2006- 2007 Max Weber Fellow (Post-doc) – European University Institute –History Department
• 2009-2010 Post-doc Fellow –Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster – History Department
• 2011-2013 Marie Curie IEF Fellow Johannes Gutenberg Universität – Mainz - History Department
• 2013-2022 Instructor  - Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz – History Department
• 2013-2014 Post-doc Researcher Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz – Art history Department
• 2014-2016 Post-doc Researcher -German Historical institute - Rome
• 2016-2017 Post-doc Fellow in the History of Knowledge. German Historical Institute – Washington DC
• 2020-2021 Post-doc Researcher - Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (IKT)
• 2021-2022 Researcher - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
• 2022 Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York
• 2023 Visiting Professor - IMT School for Advanced Studies – Lucca, Italy
• 2023-2024 Researcher - Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (IKT)
• 2025- Elise Richter Fellow – University of Vienna - Department of Economic and Social History
• 2025-2026 Guest-Professor  – History of Material Catholicisms - Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (IKT)

Research interests

• Material history
• Microhistory, Global history
• Dissonant Heritage – Patrimonialisations
• History of the objects and collections
• History of knowledge
• Cultural history of Rome
• History of global religious agencies

Ongoing research

• 2025-2030 "Rethinking «dissonant heritages» of the old and new world" - Elise Richter Fellowship Project (FWF)
• International Project network Coordinator "Mapping «dissonant objects»: religious material agencies between Italy, the Iberian Peninsula and the Holy Land", with Massimo Carlo Giannini - Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Università di Teramo, and Lina Scalisi - Università di Catania. (2024-2026)
  
  

Networks and activities (selected)

• Co-Editor of the Journal Quaderni Storici (Bologna, Il Mulino) with Alessandro Buono, Margareth Lanzinger, Vittorio Tigrino Massimo Vallerani (peer-reviewed)  www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/0301-6307 (2024-
• Member of the DFG network Mobile Matters of Religion: Devotional and Sacred Objects on the Early 
• Modern World. mobrel.hypotheses.org (2024- 2026)
  Member of several Ateneo Projects - University of Rome La Sapienza - SARAS Department Cassiano dal Pozzo (2021-2023, E. Valeri); Beyond the borders. (2020-2022 A. Ceccarelli); Significati e pratiche del contagio (A. 2020-2022, A. Lupo)
• Member of the Scientific editorial board of Quaderni Storici (Bologna, Il Mulino), peer-reviewed (2008-2024)
  
  

Selected recent publications

• S. Brevaglieri, Missionary collecting between object eradications and re-sedimentations. An introduction, in Missionary collecting, «Quaderni Storici»,  ed. by S. Brevaglieri, 169 (1/2022). DOI: 10.1408/106197
• S. Brevaglieri, The origins of the Vatican Ethnological Museum. Francisco Romero, Propaganda
  Fide and the «Aruacos idols» (16th-18th centuries), in Missionary objects and collecting, ed by S. Brevaglieri, «Quaderni Storici», 169, 1/2022, pp. 125-159. DOI: 10.1408/106201
• S. Brevaglieri, Natural desiderio di sapere. Roma barocca fra vecchi e nuovi mondi, Roma, Viella, La corte dei papi, 2019. ISBN: 9788833132334; Digital edition: ISBN: 9788833135656 (PDF); ISBN: 9788833135649 ePUB con Adobe DRM
• S. Brevaglieri, (with A. Romano) eds., Produzione di saperi/costruzione di spazi, «Quaderni Storici», 142, n. 1, 2013. DOI: 10.1408/73477
• S. Brevaglieri, Science, Books and Censorship in the Academy of the Lincei. Johannes Faber as cultural mediator, in Conflicting Duties. Science, Medicine and Religion in Rome (1550-1750), ed. by Maria Pia Donato and Jill Kraye, London-Turin, Warburg Institute Colloquia, 15, 2009, pp. 109-133.  DOI 978-0-85481-149-6