Rosa Salzberg

Rosa Salzberg completed her MA at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and her PhD at Queen Mary College, London, before taking up a position at the University of Warwick, UK, in 2010. In 2016-19 she was also a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole, with the project Renaissance Migropolis: Mobility, Migration and the Politics of Reception in Venice (1450-1650). Since 2021, she has been an Associate Professor of Early Modern History in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. Her research focuses on communication, urban history and the history of migration and mobility in early modern Europe. She is the author of Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice (Manchester University Press, 2014). More recently she co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Early Modern History called "Cities in Motion" (2021) and the volume Connected Mobilities in the Early Modern World: The Practice and Experience of Movement (Amsterdam University Press, 2022).