Giovanni Ceccarelli is Full Professor of Economic History at the State University of Milano. His research interests include the history of risk and risk-management, economic thought and culture in the Renaissance, history of food and marketing during the 19th century globalization. Former fellow at Princeton University and visiting professor at EHESS-Paris, he is currently Senior visiting fellow at the University of Exeter.
Giovanni Ceccarelli is Full professor of Economic history at the State University of Milano. Previously he tought at the Università degli studi di Parma from 2005 to 2023. Former Davis Fellow at Princeton University, Professeur invité at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Farfel Fellow at the Huntington Library of Pasadena and Senior visiting fellow at the University of Exeter, is currently Chercheur associé at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne.
He has graduated in History from the Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari (1997), and completed his Ph.D. in Economic History at the Università Bocconi of Milano (2001). He has been granted a one-year scholarship by the Centro Studi sul credito of Asti (2002), and a two-year post-doctorate grant at the History Department of the University of Padova (2003). In 2005 he was appointed Junior lecturer (Ricercatore), and later (2015) Associate professor at the Università degli studi di Parma.
He took part to several investigations funded by the European Research Council and the Italian Ministry of University and is currently involved in a project financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (PI S. Go), as well as Principal Investigator of the PRIN research project Under Uncertainty. Coping with Risks in the Mediterranean Maritime Business (Italy, 16th-19th centuries).
His research interests include: early modern commerce and finance, with a special focus on risk-management contracts; late medieval economic thought; food and retail history with a specific interest on typical products, and food marketing in the 19th century.
On these topics he has authored three books (Risky Markets, Brill 2020; Il gioco e il peccato, Il Mulino 2003; Un mercato del rischio, Marsilio 2012) and co-edited a collection of essays (Typicality in History, Peter Lang, 2013). He has published over 50 articles and book chapters in Italian, French, English, and German. He has participated with invited papers to conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad, including major academic institutions like: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, London School of Economics, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, École Normale Supérieure, École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
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