Erasmo CASTELLANI
PhD student, Duke University
[email protected]
770-755-8561
Employment
Fall 2015 – Grader Assistant (HIS 286 Europe in Twentieth Century), Duke University
AY 2014-15 – Organizer Graduate Conference History Department, Duke University
Summer 2014 – Research fellow VIVA project, Duke University, Venice/Durham
Spring 2014 – Teaching assistant (HIS 260D Religion, Science and Magic since 1400), Duke University
2009-2013 – Research fellow for SHARED CULTURE - Strategic Project for the knowledge and availability of shared
cultural heritage, within the Cross Border Cooperation Programme Italy-Slovenia 2007-2013, Ca’ Foscari University –
Venice, Italy/Primorska University – Koper, Slovenia
AY 2009-2010 – History tutor for undergraduate/graduate students, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
AY 2008-2009 – Graduate teaching assistant – Language instructor (Italian 1001 – Italian language and
culture), Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Education
2013-present – History PhD student, Duke University
2012 – Laurea magistrale (equivalent to a Masters) in History, Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy. Thesis: “Voci distanti.
La comunicazione tra governati e governanti nelle Bocche di Cattaro tra XVI e XVII secolo” – advisor: Prof.
Claudio Povolo.
AY 2008-2009 – Ca’ Foscari/GSU Exchange Program Fellow, Georgia State University.
2008 – Laurea di primo livello (equivalent to the BA) in History, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Thesis:
“L'uomo che guardava le donne. Un processo del consiglio dei dieci di fine '700” – advisor: Prof. Claudio
Povolo.
2007 – Slovene Language Summer Course Fellow, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia.
1999 – Diploma di Maturità, Liceo Artistico Statale di Venezia, Italy.
Publications
2017? – “Momiano e Pirano nella prima metà del Cinquecento” in conference proceedings of Momiano e
l’Istria: una comunità e una regione dell’Alto Adriatico (storia, arte, diritto, antropologia)
2017? (Accepted) – “La legge a tutela della donna? Stupro a Vicenza sotto la Dominazione Austriaca” in I
luoghi del crimine, ed. Claudio Povolo, Verona, Cierre.
October 2013 “The Archives of Kotor” in News Of The Rialto, 2013 (vol.32) ed. Eric Dursteler.
2012 – “Le suppliche ed il Cinquecento” in Le pietre di Perastro. Il Dominio da mar e l’Albania veneta, for the
History of the Mediterranean seminar (Spring 2012) taught by Prof. Claudio Povolo at Ca’ Foscari University,
Venice.
2011 – “Documenti disordinati: un esempio di ricerca basato sulla supplica di Agostino Vida di Capodistria”
(Scattered documents: an example of research based on a petition of Agostino Vida from Koper.) Article in
Acta Histriae, 19, 2011, 3.
2011 – Entries “Confronto” and “Interrogatorio” for the Lessico giurisdizionale e processuale, in Claudio
Povolo, Il movente. Il giudice Bernardo Marchesini e il processo per l’omicidio di Giovanni Rama (1831-1833.) Verona,
Cierre.
Conference papers presented
May 2016 – “Cultural Brokers Negotiating with Empire: the Nobleman Francesco Bolizza and His TransImperial Cultural Capital” international conference Negotiating Limits Between Early Modern Sovereignties. Zadar,
Croatia.
October 2014 – “Venice and Sovereignty: An Empire on the Sea?” Sixteenth Century Society Conference.
New Orleans, Luisiana.
September 2009 – “Agostino Vida e l’archivio di Capodistria: una testimonianza degli inizi del ‘600.”
International conference Testimoni e testimonianze del passato. Faculty of Humanities Koper, Science and
Research Centre of Koper at the University of Primorska, Koper; Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. – Koper,
Slovenia
May 2009 – “Un processo delegato del Consiglio dei Dieci alla fine del ’700: la vicenda processuale del fabbro
Giuseppe Pedrocchi di Rovetta accusato di malcostume.” Fonti e temi di storia locale di Archivio Bergamasco.
Sponsored by the city council of Bergamo, the provincial council of Bergamo and Angelo Mai library.
Bergamo, Italy.
May 2008 – “L'uomo che guardava le donne: processo delegato del consiglio dei dieci di fine '700.” Giornate
culturali del comune di Rovetta. Sponsored by the city council of Rovetta. Bergamo, Italy.
Conferences, lectures, panels and workshops
October 2015 – “Staging Sovereignty: Knowledge, Narratives, and Spaces of Governance.” Annual Graduate
Conference of the Duke History Department. Conference Chair and organizer. Duke University.
April 2015 – “Troubled Correspondence. How Venice communicated with Constantinople.” Lecture in the
lecture series Italy across the Mediterranean: Politics, Space, and Visual Culture from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity.
Stony Brook University, New York.
October 2014 – “the world of the Sieges.” Co-organizer of the international workshop. Duke University.
October 2014 – “Representations of Power in Renaissance Venice.” Co-organizer of the panel. SCSC, New
Orleans.
AY 2013-14 – “Ocean Crossings.” Co-founder and co-organizer of the reading groups and workshop. Duke
University/Urbana Champaign.
Spring 2012 – “Le suppliche dell’Albania Veneta nel Cinquecento.” Lecture in Claudio Povolo’s graduate
seminar in Mediterranean History. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice.
May 2010 – “Orvieto Cathedral: its art and meanings.” Lecture in prof. Richard Keatley’s GSU study abroad
program. Perugia, Italy.
May 2008 – “Giustizia e ordine pubblico nel Lombardo-Veneto (1815-1866.)” Co-organizer of documentary
exposition sponsored by Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Archivio di Stato, Venice and Malo city council.
Malo/Vicenza, Italy.
October-November 2007 – “Giurisdizione e polizia nel regno Lombardo-Veneto (1815-1866.)” Co-organizer
of documentary exposition sponsored by Ca’ Foscari University, Venice and Archivio di Stato, Venice.
Archivio di Stato, Venice, Italy.
