Rosa Salzberg is an Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance History in the Department of History, Faculty of Art at the University of Warwick.

Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance history, University of Warwick (2015 - present)

Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence (2016-2019)

Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance History, University of Warwick (2010 - 2015)

UK Society for Renaissance Studies, Ruth & Nicolai Rubinstein Postdoctoral Fellow (2009 - 2010)

Australian European University Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2009)

Doctor of philosophy, Italian Renaissance History (2009) - Queen Mary College, University of London

Master of Arts, Italian Renaissance History (2004) - University of Melbourne, Australia

Bachelor of Arts, History major (2002) - University of Melbourne, Australia

My major research interests focus on urban history and the history of migration and mobility in Renaissance and early modern Europe.

My current project (MIGROPOLIS, financed by a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship at the European University Institute, 2016-19) looks at spaces of the first arrival for migrants and travellers in Renaissance Venice, such as inns, lodging houses, and ferry stations, and examines how they acted as sites of orientation, social and cultural interaction and surveillance points for the local authorities.

The first fruits of this research are now appearing in Urban History, Revue d'histoire moderne e contemporaine, and various book chapters, detailed below.

I also have an enduring interest in the history of communication, and particularly the production and circulation of ephemeral print. A m based on my PhD dissertation, entitled Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice, was published by Manchester University Press in 2014. It investigates the way in which the new technology of print infiltrated the lives of people across the entire spectrum of society in the form of cheaply printed pamphlets, broadsheets, and fliers, which were sold for very little, posted up and proclaimed, or given out for free. My research suggests how, within the unique cityscape of Venice, print quickly became woven into the matrix of oral and written communication that underpinned urban life

some of her journal articles include;

BOOK

Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice, Manchester University Press, 2014.

Paperback edition, 2016.

Winner of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Prize for the best book in Venetian Renaissance History (2014-15) from the Renaissance Society of America.

Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.

SPECIAL ISSUE

The Cantastorie in Renaissance Italy: Street Singers Between Oral and Literate Cultures, special issue of Italian Studies 71:2 (2016), edited by Luca Degl’Innocenti, Massimo Rospocher and Rosa Salzberg

‟Mobility, Cohabitation and Cultural Exchange in the Lodging Houses of Early Modern Venice”, Urban History, 46/3 (2019): 398-418.

*Winner of the Dyos prize for the best article published in the journal in 2018

"Comment être vénitien?

Identification des immigrants et 'droit d’habiter' à Venise au XVIe siècle", (co-written with Claire Judde de Larivière), Revue d'historie moderne e contemporaine 64/2 (2017): 69-92

‟'Poverty Makes Me Invisible': Street Singers and Hard Times on the Streets of Renaissance Italy”, Italian Studies, special issue The Cantastorie in Renaissance Italy: Street Singers Between Oral and Literate Cultures, edited by Luca Degl’Innocenti, Massimo Rospocher and Rosa Salzberg, 71:2 (2016): 212-24^[1][2]