Bachelor's Degree Programme in
Linguistic and Cultural Mediation
Linguistic and Cultural Mediation
Current appointments
Full professor at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Ca’ Foscari) since February 15, 2018.
Member of the Department of Management (DM) since January 1, 2011.
Member of the DM Research Committee since April 2011.
Deputy coordinator of the PhD in Management of Ca' Foscari, since February 2014.
Past appointments:
Associate Professor at Ca’ Foscari from November 1, 2007 to February 14, 2018.
DM associate dean for Research since May 1, 2015, until September 30, 2017.
DM associate dean for Careers and development from April 2011 to December 2013.
Member of the Working group on research quality of Ca' Foscari from March 2013 to December 2014.
Member of the Council of the Graduate School of Economics and Management (GSEM) of Ca' Foscari, Università di Padova and Università di Verona, from May 2013 to June 2017.
Scientific head of the Vicenza Historical institute of the Resistance and contemporary age (Istrevi), from March 1, 2007 to June 2018.
Ca’ Foscari Department of Economics (DSE) referee for research projects and international relationships, from May 2001 to December 2010.
Ricercatore universitario (Assistant Professor) in Economic History at DSE, appointed on February 1, 2000, tenured on February 1, 2003, until October 31, 2007.
Fellow in the project “Per una storia dell’analisi quantitativa: l’esperienza veneta fra Ancien Régime e Ottocento” directed by Giovanni Levi at the Ca’ Foscari Department of History, from July 1, 1999 to January 31, 2000.
Education
Ph.D. in Urban and Rural History (11th cycle) at the University of Perugia on February 1999.
Laurea (M.sc.) in History at Ca’ Foscari on March 1, 1995 – score 110/110 cum laude.
5th Training Course in Historical Demography in Pontignano, Siena, organized by the Italian Association of Historical Demography (SIDeS), March-April 1992.
International experiences
Thomas K. McCraw Fellow in US Business History at Harvard Business School (HBS) from September 1 to November 15, 2018.
Visiting professor at Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, IEDES, in March 2016, in the Exchange Program Erasmus Plus.
Visiting scholar at Aston Business School (Birmingham) in February 2016.
Visiting researcher at the University of California (UC), Irvine, School of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, in the Exchange Program Ca' Foscari-UC, March-April 2001.
Chercheur invité associated to the project “Approches comparatives sur la statistique européenne” directed by Alain Blum at the Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), March-April 1999.
Visiting Ph.D. student at the Laboratoire de Démographie Historique (LDH) of the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, January-June 1998.
Financed research
Scientific coordinator (with Francesco Cassata) of the project Les savoirs quantitatifs et les pratiques organisationnelles, co-financed by the École Française de Rome for the three-years period 2012-2014.
Member of the project Futuro in Ricerca (FIRB 2010) The Engines of Growth: For a Global History of the Conflict between Renewable, Fossil and Fissile energies (1972-1992), coordinator Duccio Basosi (with Giuliano Garavini), financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research for the period May 2012 – May 2015.
Scientific coordinator of the project Merchant Institutions and Globalization Processes: The Genoese and Florentine Diasporas in Early-Modern Venice, with fellowship financed by the DSE and by the cultural association Omnia Eventi, August 2009 – July 2010.
Member of the project of national relevance (PRIN), financed by the Italian Ministero dell’istruzione, dell’università e della ricerca (MIUR) in 2005-2006: Competitiveness, innovation and international reorganization of the Made-in-Italy industry between history and future perspectives, local coordinator at Ca’ Foscari Mario Volpe, national coordinator Giovanni Luigi Fontana.
Scientific coordinator of the project A Venetian lifestyle: Consumption practices and cultural identities in the tourist city, with fellowship financed by the Veneto Regional Government (FSE), April 2014 – March 2015.
Research organization
Member of the DSE Board, in charge of research organisation, from November 17, 2005 to October 2008.
As head of the Istrevi scientific board from March 2007 to June 2018, editor of the «Istrevi ricerche» refereed collection of books published by Cierre Edizioni, Verona.
Co-editor of the «Culture del lavoro» refereed collection of books published by Edizioni Ca' Foscari since March 2014.
Member of the scientific board of the SIDeS from November 2009 to October 2015.
Research evaluation
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal of the SIDeS, Popolazione e storia (Udine, Forum), since July 2006.
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Venetica (Verona, Cierre), since June 2011.
Referee for the MIUR program Scientific Independence of young Researchers (SIR).
Referee for the journals in English Business History, Enterprise & Society, History of Political Economy, Urban History; for the journals in Italian Quaderni Storici, Popolazione e Storia, Imprese e Storia, Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, Italia Contemporanea, Ateneo Veneto; for the journal in Spanish Aequilibriae; and for the Canadian publisher McGill – Queen’s University Press.
Ph.D supervision
M. Agostini, Learning about firms' failing path: An explanation through annual reports information (coadvisor with C. Saccon), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Ph.D in Management, 24th cycle, 2012.
S. Stoycheva, Measuring sustainability: An historical and critical perspective, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Ph.D in Management, 30th cycle, 2018.