CV

Research interests

• Early Modern European History
• Social and Economic History
• Gender History
• Labour History
• Mining and Natural Resources
• History of Science and Technology
• Global History

Ongoing research

• Mining the Earth, Roaming the Globe: German-Speaking Miners in Europe and Spanish America (1500-1800) – ESPRIT FWF Project
• Renaissance Underground: Labor and Science in the Mines of Early Modern Italy (book project)
• Hidden Figures? Women’s Knowledge and Work in Early Modern Mining
  
  

Networks and activities (selected)

• Co-organizer (with prof. Dana Velasco Murillo) of the panel “Mining Women in Europe
  and the America, 1500s-1800s”, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, 3-6.

January 2025

• Podcast – Drawing Blood: Women and Early Modern Mines with Dr Gabriele Marcon

• Co-convenor of Labour in Mining – European Labour History Network Working Group (https://lim.hypotheses.org)

Prizes and Awards

• 2017 “Giuseppe Del Torre” MA Dissertation Award – Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy

Selected recent publications

• 2025 (Forthcoming) – “The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in the Early
  Modern Mines”, ISIS: A Journal of the History of Science Society.
• 2023 – “Inveigled or invited? The migration of German miners to the Medici mines in sixteenthcentury Tuscany”. In Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola F.; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhem
  (eds.), Moving Workers: Historical Perspective on Labour, Coercion, and Im/mobility, De Gruyter (2023), pp. 15-38.
• 2022 – Wages Unpacked. Remuneration, Negotiation, and Coercion in the Medici mines. In
  Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Jh. 32/1 (2022), pp. 55-74.
• 2018 – “Venetian Glassmakers in late 16th-century Tirol”, in Crivelli B., Ferrari S., Grosso M.
  (eds.), Venezia e gli Asburgo. Pittura, collezionismo e reti commerciali nel tardo Rinascimento europeo, Padova, Padova University Press