About
Benedetta Maria Crivelli is Associate Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Parma.
Previously, she held a fixed-term research position (Type A) at the University of Udine and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Bocconi University as part of the ERC project SMITE – Social Mobility and Inequality across Italy and Europe, 1300–1800. She also held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Padua and the University of Milan, and was a visiting scholar at CIDEUS in Évora, Portugal.
Her research focuses on financial and commercial history, with a particular interest in maritime trade in the early modern period. She also studies the primary sector and the history of food in relation to financial and commercial developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.