Rosa started following the work of Stephan Karl Sander, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Historisches Seminar.
Rosa followed the research interests: Early Modern European History; Jewish History; Global History, Social Networks, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, New Media, Social Mobility, Intergenerational Mobility, Cosmopolitance, Neighbourhood Networks, Elite Networks, Leisure Networks, Network Capital, Time Use, Social Stratification (Education, Housing) etc., Cosmopolitanism, Global cities, and global cities, Istanbul, gated communities, gentrification, urban renewal, poverty, cultural and spatial representations of the urban poor, migration and diaspora studies
Rosa
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Faculty Member, History
Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance History
About
I completed my BA (Hons) and MA in the History Department at the University of Melbourne, before moving to London to do my PhD in Italian Renaissance History at Queen Mary College. Before coming to Warwick in 2010, I was awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the European University Institute, Florence, and the UK Society for Renaissance Studies. I also taught undergraduate courses at the University of Melbourne.
My major research interest to date has been the early Venetian printing industry, and particularly the production and circulation of ephemeral print. A monograph based on my PhD dissertation, entitled "Printshop to Piazza: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice", will be published by Manchester University Press in 2013. It investigates the way in which the new technology of print infiltrated the lives of people across the entire spectrum of society in the form of cheap printed pamphlets, broadsheets, and fliers, which were sold for very little, posted up and proclaimed, or given out for free. My research suggests how, within the unique cityscape of Venice, print quickly became woven into the matrix of oral and written communication that underpinned urban life.
A key focus of my research has been the role of itinerant pedlars and performers in disseminating print in public spaces - publishing, performing and selling cheap works. In a forthcoming article in the Sixteenth Century Journal I consider how such figures moved in and between Italian cities, selling printed texts and images as well as other small consumer goods. The role of travelling performers as disseminators of news, information and entertainment, at the intersections of print and orality, is a continuing focus of my research, explored in two articles I have co-written with Massimo Rospocher of the Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trento.
This interest in mobile individuals and their presence in and passage through the early modern city has led me to a new area of research in the history of migration. I am particularly interested in non-elite migrants who moved within the "melting pot" environment of early modern Venice and its empire, and how they operated in, perceived and identified with the state.
