Phd in HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, RELIGIONS

email: elena.valeri@uniroma1.it
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building: Facoltà di Lettere
room: Studio n. 4, Sezione di Storia moderna e contemporanea

She is currently Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the Sapienza University of Rome. Shegraduated in Humanities (History) from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with the maximum possible score. During the academic year 1997-1998 she was a scholarship holder at the Italian Institute of Historical Studies in Naples; in 2002 she completed her Ph.D at the department of Modern and Contemporary History within the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She was guest maître de conférences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (May 2003); scholarship holder at the Fondazione Michele Pellegrino. Centre for Religious and Literary Studies in Turin (January 2003-December 2004); received a research grant in Modern History at the department of Modern and Contemporary History within the Faculty of Letters at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (October 2004-September 2006); Jean-François Malle Fellow at the “Villa I Tatti. Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies”, Florence (July 2006-June 2007); research grant holder at the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (February-June 2008); research grant holder at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, as part of the European project European Network for Baroque Cultural Heritage (July-December 2010). From 1997 until December 2001 she collaborated with the Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici; from 2002 until 2008 she was editorial secretary of the historical journal Roma moderna e contemporanea; she is member of editorial board of the journal "Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica".
She has presented papers in national and international conferences; as a result of the research she has published one monograph (Italia dilacerata. Girolamo Borgia nella cultura storica del Rinascimento, Milan, FrancoAngeli, 2007 which was awarded the Premio Sapienza Ricerca 2011, category under 40) as well as various articles published in scholarly journals and publications in Italy and internationally.
She is mainly interested in political and cultural history between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries; she has devoted most of her attention to historical writing by humanists as a privileged vantage point from which to analyse and represent the political crisis of the sixteenth century. Extending her interest later to include the transition to ecclesiastical historiography during the second half of the sixteenth century and the role of inquisitor-historians, she examines these topics from within the wider context of Italian identity