Francesca Trivellato
Francesca Trivellato is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, NJ. She previously taught at Yale University and, briefly, at the University of Venice Ca' Foscari. She has written extensively about the institutional and cultural mechanisms underpinning market exchanges in preindustrial Europe. She has also published numerous essays on the history of historiography and the social sciences.
Her principal publications include: Fondamenta dei vetrai: Lavoro, tecnologia e mercato a Venezia tra Sei e Settecento (Donzelli, 2000); The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period (Yale University Press, 2009); and The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells us about the Making of European Commercial Society (Princeton University Press, 2019). She is one of the founding co-editors of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics.
Her work has been recognized with multiple awards and fellowships, and has been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.