I am a trained historian, studying trade, mobility, and cross-cultural interaction in the early modern period (roughly 1500 to 1800). I am employed at the University of Padua as a member of the Department of Private Law, where I am Principal Investigator of the project “Avania: Commerce, Orientalism, and Law in Early Modern Europe”.

My training is principally in legal and economic history. After a BA in History and an MPhil in Medieval History at the University of Cambridge, I completed a PhD in Early Modern History awarded jointly by the University of Exeter and the University of Pisa, supervised by Professor Andrea Addobbati and Professor Maria Fusaro. I was then a member of the ERC-funded project “MiCoLL: Migrating Commercial Law and Language: Rethinking Lex Mercatoria”.

My previous research on slavery was awarded the Alexander Prize 2023 by the Royal History Society (UK), recognising the best article published by a PhD student or recent PhD graduate. My PhD thesis was also awarded the British Commission for Maritime History’s Doctoral Prize in 2022.

Most of my research is freely available to the public and can be accessed here.