Curriculum Vitae 2008

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Joanne M. Ferraro
Professor and Chair
Department of History
San Diego State University
ferraro@mail.sdsu.edu
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jferraro/
Office Tel. (619) 594-6702

 

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

 Refereed Book:

The Allure of Venice:  A Historical Portrait of the Floating City.  Under contract with Cambridge University Press.    

 

PUBLISHED WORK

Refereed Books:

Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice:  Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789. The Johns Hopkins University Press.  Expected publication:  Fall 2008.

Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.  Studies in the History of Sexuality. 240 pages, 8 illustrations Paperback and Hard cover. Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies (2002)   Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize  (2002)

Vita pubblica e privata a Brescia. Brescia, Italy: Edizioni Morcelliana, 1998. Italian translation of Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650. The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State (Cambridge UP, 1993). 

Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650. The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 275 pages, 8maps and illustrations, 12 tables. Paperback edition, January 2003.

 

Refereeed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

"One Community's Secret:  Incest and Infanticide in the Late Sixteenth-Century Veneto." Acta Histriae 15 (2007): 441-452.

"The Manufacture and Movement of Goods."In The Renaissance World, ed. J. J Martin, 87-100. New York:  Routledge, 2007.

"'Making'"Geographies and Polities: Representing Women in Italian Economic History." In  Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women.  Eds. J. Hartman and A. Seeff, 75-88.  Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2006.

"Families and Clans in the Renaissance World."In The Blackwell Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance. Ed. Guido Ruggiero, 173-187. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

"Coniugi nemici: Orsetta, Annibale ed il compito dello storico (Venezia 1634)."In I Coniugi nemici. La separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo. Eds. Silvana SeidelMenchi and Diego Quaglioni, 141-190. Bologna: Società editrice Il Mulino, 2000.

"Honor and the Marriage Wars of Late Renaissance Venice."In Honour: Identityand Ambiguity of an Informal Code in the Mediterranean, Acta Histriae 8 (2000): 41-48.

"The Power to Decide: Battered Wives in Early Modern Venice." Renaissance Quarterly 48 (1995): 492-512.

 "Oligarchs, Protesters, and the Republic of Venice. The `Revolution of the Discontents' in Brescia, 1644-45."The Journal of Modern History 60 (1988): 627-653.

"Noble involvement in Violence and Banditry in Brescia in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries." In La Guerra del Sale (1680-1699). Conflitti e Frontiere del Piemonte Barocco [The Salt War (1680-1699). The Conflicts and Frontiers of Baroque Piedmont. 303-308. Milan: Franco Angeli, 1986.

"Proprietà terriera e potere nello Stato veneto: la nobiltà bresciana del '400-'500." ["Real Estate and Power in the Venetian State: The Brescian Nobility in the 15th and 16th Centuries"]. Civis 24 (1984): 319-342.

"Feudal-Patrician Investments in the Bresciano and the Politics of the Estimo, 1426-1641." Studi Veneziani N.S. 7 (1983): 31-57.

 

Articles in Reference Works:

"Early Modern Europe."The History of Childhood. Ed. Paula Fass, Vol. 1: 287-291. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004.

"Family Patterns and Childhood Experience." The History of Childhood.  Ed. Paula Fass, Vol 2: 339-342. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004.

 "Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in European Society."The Encyclopedia of Social History. Ed. Peter Stearns, Vol. 4: 145-160. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.

"Charivari." The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Ed. Paul Grendler, Vol. 1: 400-401. NewYork: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

"Honor."The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance.Ed. Paul Grendler, Vol 3: 193-194. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

"Social Status"in: The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance .Ed. Paul Grendler, Vol. 6: 43-47. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

 

Book Reviews:

I tribunali del matrimonio (secoli XV-XVIII). Eds. Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni (Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2006). Renaissance Quarterly 61 (2008): 127-128.

Secrets of Women. Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection by Katharine Park.  (New York:  Zone Books, 2006).  The Journal of InterdisciplinaryHistory 28 (2008): 606-07.

Shopping in the Renaissance.  Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600 by Evelyn Welch.  (New Haven and London:  Yale University Press, 2005).  The American Historical Review (2006): 917-  918.

Trasgressioni.  Seduzione, concubinato, adulterio, bigamia (XIV-XVII  secolo).Eds. Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni (Bologna:  Società editrice il Mulino, 2004) Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 138-39.
 
Matrimoni di antico regime by Daniela Lombardi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001).  Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 450-454.

Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe.  Eds. Anne Jacobson Schutte, Thomas Kuehn, Silvana Seidel Menchi (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 2001). Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 214-216.

The Captain's Concubine. Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany by Donald  Weinstein (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). The Journal of Social History 35(2002): 1008-1010.

Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405 by Benjamin G. Kohl (Baltimore and London: The Johns  Hopkins University Press, 1998). The American Historical Review 104 (1999): 1366-67.

Marriage in Italy, 1300-1600 edited by Trevor Dean and K.J.P. Lowe (Cambridge, UK and  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).  Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999): 865-68.

Ladies Errant. Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy by Deanna Shemek  (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998).  Renaissance Quarterly.521 (1999): 865-68.

Women in the Streets. Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy by Samuel K. Cohn       (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).  Renaissance Quarterly 51(Winter 1998): 1341-1343.

Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 by Dennis  Romano (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).  Renaissance Quarterly 51 (Winter 1998): 1341-1343.

L'intrigo dell'Onore: Poteri e istituzioni nella Repubblica di Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento by Claudio Povolo(Verona: Cierre, 1997).  The Sixteenth Century Journal. The Journal of Early Modern Studies (Fall, 1998).

A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany: Family and Power in the Creation of the State by Giovanna Benadusi (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). The Journal of Modern History 70(1998): 482-83

Provincial Families of the Renaissance. Private and Public Life in the Veneto by James Grubb (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) News on the Rialto18 (1997): 8.

Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy: Benefactors and Their Motives in Turin,1541-1789by Sandra Cavallo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1995).  The Journal of Modern History 4(1997): 866-67.

I conservatori della virtù: donne recluse nella Roma dei Papi by Angela Groppi (Rome: Laterza, 1994). The Journal of Modern History 68 (1996): 712-14.

The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century     Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) in The Journal of the History of Sexuality 4 (1994): 630-31.

Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence by Sharon T. Strocchia. Baltimore and London. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).  The Journal of Social History 27(1994): 848-49.

 

AWARDS

(1987) Timeos Teaching Award, Outstanding Professor at San Diego State University

 

FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS (COMPETITIVE)

(2005-06) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers
(2005-06)  SDSU Sabbatical (competitive)
(2002) Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Summer Research Grant
(1999) SDSU Sabbatical (competitive)
(1995) SDSU Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Semester Leave
(1993) American Council of Learned Societies Grants-in-Aid
(1992) Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Summer Research Grant
(1992) SDSU Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Mini Grant and FDP Grant
(1991) SDSU Sabbatical (competitive)
(1990) SDSU Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Summer Fellowship
(1990) SDSU Faculty Development Grant and Graduate Division Grant-in-Aid
(1989) SDSU College of Arts and Letters Grant and Graduate Division, Grant-in-Aid
(1988) NEH, One-yr.Fellowship for College TeachersBFamily and Public Life (CUP 1993)
(1987) SDSU College of Arts and Letters Summer Research Grant and FDP Grant
(1986)  NEH, Summer StipendBProduced Family and Public Life (CUP, 1993)
(1985)  American Council of Learned Societies Grants-in-Aid
(1984)  American Council of Learned Societies Grants-in-Aid (Awarded but declined)
(1984)  Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Summer Research Grant
(1979)  Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
(1978)  Mabel Wilson-Richards Fellowship

 

SELECT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS SINCE 1993

(2008)  "Hidden Violence, Contested Justice:  Infanticide in Early Modern Venice."  California Consortium for Interdisciplinary Italian Studies.  University of Santa Cruz, February 29.

(2007)  "Miscarrying Justice? Incest and Infanticide in Early Modern Venetian Communities and Courts of Law," Society for Italian Historical Studies Session, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 6

(2006)  "Talking About Infanticide in Early Modern Venice," Conference on Sexuality in the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Periods, The University of Miami, February 25, 2006.

(2005)  "Incest and Infanticide in Venice and the Veneto:  Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries," for The Rhetoric of Deviance, Conference jointly sponsored by the University of Primorska, the Historical Society of Southern Primorska, the Science and Research Center of Koper and the University of Venice in Koper, Slovenia, October 6-8, 2005.

(2005) "Father-Daughter Incest and Infanticide in the Sixteenth-Century Rural Veneto: The Case of Mattia and Sebastian Stanghelin," The Renaissance Society of America, University of Cambridge, UK, April 2005

(2003) "Making Geographies and Polities: Representing Women in European Economic History," plenary speech for a symposium entitled "Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities," University of Maryland Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, November 6, 2003.

(2003) "Childhood in Early Modern Europe," presented to the History of Childhood Conference, University of California, Berkeley, October 12, 2003.

(2002)  "Gendering Braudel's Mediterranean." Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600-1800, UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, December 6-7

(2002) "Impotence in the Marriage Bed: Scripts for the Venetian Patriarchal Court in Late Renaissance Venice," Panel on Sexualities: Literature and Life, Renaissance Society of America, Scotsdale, Arizona, April 11

(2002) "The Family in Early Modern Italian Studies," University of California at Berkeley, April 6

(2002) Chair of panel: "Garrulous Women and Criminal Courts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe," Joint session with the Medieval Academy of America and the
North American Conference on British Studies. American Historical Association.
San Francisco, January 5

(2001) "Breaking Marriage Ties in Seventeenth-Century Venice: Tales from the Patriarchal Court," International Seminar on "The Comparative Experiences of European Matrimonial Tribunals," University of Trent, Italy, October 25

(2001) "Bedtime Stories from the Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice," presented to the Andrews Society, Yale University, April 5

(2001) "Bedtime Stories from the Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice," presented to the History Department, University of California, San Diego, February 14

(2000) "Historiographical Trends in the U.S. and Italy: A Comparative Analysis,"7th Seminar on Marital Litigation, Faculty of Jurisprudence, University of Trent, Italy, December 13

(2000) "Court Narrative as Cultural Repository in Seventeenth-Century Venice," Joint conference of the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, Giorgio Cini Foundation, November 17

(1999) "Woman and Honor in the Mediterranean," Scientific Meeting entitled Honour: Identity and Ambiguity of an Informal Code. The Mediterranean, 12-20th Centuries, Koper, Slovenia, November 11-13

(1999) "The Broader Significance of Renaissance Marital Litigation: A Historical Perspective," Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy, September 9-10

(1999) "Claudio Povolo's Intrigue of Honor," University Community of Venice, Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista, May 27

(1998) "Building Context for Testimonies in Venetian Court Cases," Third Seminar on Marriage Disputes as an Historical Source, National Institute for Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, December 17

(1998) "Women's Narratives of Broken Marriage," Feminist Colloquium on Women and Gender, San Diego State University, December 2

(1998) "Bedtimes Stories: Sexual Difficulties and Failed Marriages in Late Renaissance Venice," Department of History, Pennsylvania State University, October 9

(1998) "Legal and Rhetorical Strategies in Women's Marriage Disputes," Research Seminar on Gender, Pennsylvania State University, October 8

(1998) "Secrets and Lies in the Archives: Breaking Marriage Ties in Late Renaissance Venice," presented to Mesa College, Social Sciences Department, September 11

(1998) Coordinator, Second Seminar on Marriage Disputes as an Historical Source, Istituto Storico Italo Germanico in Trento, Trent, Italy, July 2

(1997) "My Husband Tried to Murder Me. Deconstructing the Targhetta-Basso Case."Presented to the European Colloquium on Marital Litigation. Istituto Italo-Germanico di Trento. University of Trent, Italy, December 12

(1997) "Secrets and Lies in the Archives: Breaking Marriage Ties in Early Modern Venice." Presented to the European Colloquium, UCLA, May 8

(1996) "Court Cases in the Patriarchal Archives of Venice: Designing an Interdisciplinary Method of Inquiry." Presented to the European Colloquium on Marital Litigation. Istitututo Italo-Germanico di Trento. University of Trent. July

(1995) "Marital Litigation in Early Modern Venice." Presented to the UCSD History Seminar, March

(1993) Discussant in "Exploring the Early Modern City: The Turin Census of 1707," UCLA Century for 17th and 18th Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Library, October 1-2

(1993) "Breaking Marriage Ties: Women's Powers of Decision in Early Modern Venice," Seminar on Women in Early Modern Europe, Center for Culture and Literary Criticism, Harvard University, October 20

(1993) "The Power to Decide: Battered Wives in Early Modern Venice," Annual Meeting of the French Historical Studies Association, CSU Chico, March

 

ARCHIVAL EXPERIENCE IN ITALY

Venice, State Archives:  Continuous 1978-present.
Venice, Marciana Library:  Continuous 1978-present.
Venice, Patriarchal Archives:  1989-2001
Venice, Correr Library:  1978-present
Brescia, State Archives:  1978-1993
Brescia, Municipal Archives:  1978-1993

 

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D History 1983
MA History 1975
BA History 1973 Summa Cum Laude

University of Padua, Italy, 1971-72 (University of California junior year abroad)

 

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

Department of History, San Diego State University
Chair, 2003-present
Professor, 1993-present
Associate Professor, 1989-93
Assistant Professor, 1985-89
Lecturer, 1984-85
Department of History, University of Cincinnati
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1983-84
Faculty of Letters and Science, University of Venice, Italy
Lecturer, 1982-83

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association
            Chair. Marraro Prize Committee, 2006-2007
            Member, AHA Marraro Prize Committee 2005-2008
Renaissance Society of America
Society of Early Modern European Historians
Society of Italian Historical Studies
Ateneo Veneto, Venice, Italy

 

SERVICE TO SDSU

Chair, Department of History 2003-present
Member, College of Arts and Letters Policy and Planning Committee, 2007-10
Member, College of Arts and Letters Budget Committee, 2006-07
Member, University Search Committee for CAL Dean, 2002
Coordinator, College of Arts and Letters Professional Leaves and Research Committees, 1999-2003
Member, CAL Professional Leaves and Research Committees, 1991-98
History Department:  Tenure Chair; Recruitment Chair; Graduate Advisor; Scholarship Chair; member of various standing  and liaison committees

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