• Curriculum Vitae

Education and Experience

• Since summer 2025    Postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project "ALPINNKONNECT: Agents of Logistics and Infrastructure in Eighteenth Century Alpine Transit Traffic", University of Vienna
• 2022 – 2024    Assistant at the chair for Early Modern History of Roberto Zaugg, University of Zurich
• 2022 (April – June)    Visiting Student at the European University Institute, Fiesole (FI)
• 2018 – 2025    PhD research fellow in the SNSF project "Atlantic Italies: Economic and Cultural Entanglements (15th – 19th Centuries)", University of Bern (2018 – 2019) and University of Zurich (2019 – 2025)
• 2014 – 2017    Research associate at the project "Städtebau als politische Kultur. Der Architekt und Theoretiker Hans Bernoulli (1876–1959)" at the MAS of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich
• 2013 – 2016    Member of research and publication projects at the chair for the History of Urban Development at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich
• 2013 – 2017    MA in History and Comparative Literature, University of Zurich
• 2010 – 2013    BA in History, German Literature and Philosophy, University of Zurich.

Research Interests

• Social Practices and networks of consumption, trade, and retail (15th – 19th centuries)
• Strategies, networks, and economies of mobility and migration (16th – 18th centuries)
• Everyday life in rural and Alpine communities (15th – 19th centuries)
• Performances, perceptions, and conceptualisations of gender in labour and finance (15th – 19th centuries)
• Processes of integration in and disconnection from global circulation and exchange relations (15th – 19th centuries)
• Postcolonial perspectives on the interrelations of knowledge production, circulation, and the shaping of imaginaries (15th–19th centuries)

Project

• Sub-project on trading routes through the Swiss Alps in the ERC Advanced Grant "ALPINNKONNECT: Agents of Logistics and Infrastructure in Eighteenth Century Alpine Transit Traffic" under the supervision of Margareth Lanzinger (since 2025)
• Sub-project "Alpine connections" in the SNSF project "Atlantic Italies: Economic and Cultural Entanglements (15th-19th Centuries)" under the supervision of Roberto Zaugg (2018–2025)

Networks and Activities

• International 2024, April 5    "Consumption and Retail in the Three Leagues (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)." Paper presented at the workshop Zurich Meets Naples: Three Research Projects in Late Medieval and Early Modern History, organised by Roberto Zaugg (University of Zurich), held at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples, 4–5 April 2024.
• 2023, April 13    "Guardians in transition? Guardianships between geographical distance and social propinquity in the Italian-speaking Three Leagues, 1639 – 1798". Paper presented in the panel Guardians of Children, Custodians of Wealth, Opponents of Widowed Parents (16th to 18th century), organised by Margareth Lanzinger (Vienna) and Janine Maegraith (Vienna) at the European Social Science History Conference at the University of Gothenburg, 12 – 15 April 2023.
• 2022, October 21    "Il progetto Atlantic Italies: approcci per prospettive postcoloniali nella storia della penisola italiana". Paper presented at the workshop Intrecci globali e retaggi coloniali in Italia: Strategie di public history tra università, musei e movimenti, organised by Carlo Taviani (Teramo) and Roberto Zaugg (Zurich) at the Istituto svizzero in Rome, 20 – 21 October 2022.
• 2022, September 16    "Wandering debts and settled accounts: The role of credits in the itineraries of actors and goods in the Three Leagues, 1660s – 1790s." Paper presented at the workshop Debts: the Good, the Bad and the Hidden. Bringing Family, Kin, Commerce and Consumption Debts Together, organised by Janine Maegraith (Vienna), Margareth Lanzinger (Vienna) and Matthias Donabaum (Vienna) at the University of Vienna, 15 – 17 September 2022.
• 2022, September 2    "(Inter-)connected ‘hinterlands’? Trade, retail and consumption of Atlantic goods in the Alpine valleys of the Three Leagues, 1630s to 1790s." Paper presented at the conference Atlantic Italies. Economic Entanglements between the Americas, Africa and the Meditarranean (15th – 19th Centuries), organised by Silvia Marzagalli (Nice) and Roberto Zaugg (Zurich) at the University of Zurich, 1 – 3 September 2022.
• 2022, July 1    "Mountains in the Shape of the Globe: Social and economic impacts of transoceanic exchanges on the southern valleys of the Three Leagues." Paper presented in the panel Making Mountains Alpine: The 'Global Alps' in the perspective of transoceanic transfers of knowledge, goods, and funds at the Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences in Geneva, 29 June – 1 July 2022.
• 2022, July 1    "Making Mountains Alpine: The 'Global Alps' in the perspective of transoceanic transfers of knowledge, goods, and funds." Panel organised together with Fynn Holm (Bern) at the Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences in Geneva, 29 June – 1 July 2022.
• 2022, June 21    "Women’s cloth and men’s beverage? Gendered retail networks and consumption practices in the southern Alps, 1639 – 1798." Paper presented in the session The "Rural Consumer": Consumer Goods, Consumption, and Material Culture of Rural Households in Early Modern Europe, organised by Henning Bovenkerk (Münster) at the Rural History Conference in Uppsala, 20 – 23 June 2022.
• 2022, May 5    "Nostrana, frusta, fiorata: the semantics of consumption between local practices and urban marketing in the eighteenth century Alps." Paper presented at the workshop Languages of Consumption in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, organised by Anna Reimann (Basel) and Alessandra De Mulder (Antwerp) at the University of Basel, 5 – 6 May 2022.
• 2021, November 15    "Materielle Kulturen in den frühneuzeitlichen Alpen: konsumgeschichtliche Zugänge zu einer histoire connectée der Drei Bünde, 1639 – 1798." Paper presented within the research colloquium organised by Christina Brauner, Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn and Xenia von Tippelskirch, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.
• 2021, June 9    "Gendered economies in the southern Alps, 1650s – 1790s: Women’s role in consuming, retailing, and trading global goods in the Italian-speaking Three Leagues." Paper presented at the fourth annual conference of Women, Money and Markets (1600-1900): “Female Economies” at the University of Zurich, 9 – 11 June 2021.
• 2020, November 25    "Quellen und Methoden der europäischen Konsumgeschichte". Lecture given within the MA-colloquium Ernährung und Genusskulturen in der Frühen Neuzeit, organised by Roberto Zaugg, University of Zurich.
• 2019, December 3    "Italien und der Atlantik. Drei Fallstudien zu ökonomischen und kulturellen Verflechtungen des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts." Lecture presented together with Roberto Zaugg and Eva Dal Canto within the research colloquium organised by Valentin Groebner, University of Lucerne.
• 2019, October 31    "Des marchandises globales qui ont transformé une société alpine? Pratiques et stratégies de consommer et commercer des biens extra-européens dans les vallées italophones de la République des Trois Ligues, 1650-1790." Paper presented within the seminar La ‘globalisation’ du monde, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles: explorations, savoirs, objets et commerces, organised by Simona Boscani Leoni, University of Lausanne.
• 2019, September 13    "Global consumers in the Southern Alps? Extra-European commodities in the Italian-speaking regions of the Three Leagues, 1650s – 1780s." Paper presented at the 4th EURHO Conference, EHESS Paris, 10 – 13 September 2019.
• 2019, May 4    "Serial data from the Alps? Potentials and problems of post-mortem inventories from the Italian-speaking valleys of the Three Leagues, 1650 – 1850." Presented at the workshop Doing consumer history: Empirical sources and methodological challenges, University of Bern, 3 – 4 May 2019.
• 2019, May 3 – 4    "Doing consumer history. Empirical sources and methodological challenges." Workshop organised together with Roberto Zaugg at the University of Bern.
• 2019, March 27 – 29    "Consuming and trading commodities from Atlantic markets in the southern Alps (1650-1850): An Attempt at Different Scales." Paper presented within the spring school Microhistoria e historia social nuevos enfoques metodológicos, École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques, Casa de Velázquez Madrid.

Publications

• Forthcoming    "An Atlantic hinterland? Trade, consumption, and material culture in the Alpine valleys of the Three Leagues (17th–18th centuries)". In Atlantic Italies: Economic Entanglements between the Americas, Africa and the Mediterranean (15th – 19th Centuries), edited by Roberto Zaugg and Silvia Marzagalli. Rome: Viella.
• 2023    "Nostrana, frustra, fiorata: migration patterns and the semantics of consumption in the Alps, mid-17th to late 18th centuries". History of Retailing and Consumption 9, No. 2: Languages of consumption in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2023): 95 – 115.
• 2020    Review of Facchinerie: Immigrati bergamaschi, valtellinesi e svizzeri nel porto di Livorno (1602-1847), by Andrea Addobbati. Historische Anthropologie 28, no. 2 (September 2020): 306 – 8.
• 2019    Review of Consumption and the country house, by Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery. Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte 2019, no. 3 (2019): 198 – 200.
• 2018    "Der Einfluss von Hans Bernoullis Kommunikations- und Repräsentationsformen auf die Schweizerische Freiwirtschaftsbewegung." In Städtebau als politische Kultur. Der Architekt und Theoretiker Hans Bernoulli (1876 – 1959), edited by Sylvia Claus and Lukas Zurfluh, 118 – 28. Zurich: gta Verlag, 2018.
• 2017    written together with Laura Cassani, Rainer Schützeichel and Bettina Zangerl, "'Überall Wandung, überall Schluss!' Der Raumbegriff in der deutschsprachigen Städtebautheorie um 1900”. In Die Stadt als Raumentwurf. Theorien und Projekte im Städtebau seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, edited by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Rainer Schützeichel, 9 – 57. Berlin and Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017.