Corey Tazzara,

Associate Professor of History

History

Phone: 79015

[email protected]

Office Location: Humanities 213

Mailbox Number: 4017

Academic History

Ph.D., History, Stanford University (2011)
B.S. Foreign Service, summa cum laude, International, History, Georgetown University (2004)

Academic Focus

I am an historian of early modern Europe and the Mediterranean, focusing on such issues as economic and commercial relations, cross-cultural trade and contact, and the flow of political and commercial information. My current project focuses on the figure of Pietro Della Valle, his relations with the Propaganda Fide, and the problem of the circulation of Eastern knowledge in Early Modern Italy.

Selected Research and Publications

Books (as sole author):

Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Institutions, and Empire in the Renaissance. Routledge, 2023.

The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Books (as editor):

(with Koen Stapelbroek, ed.). “The Global History of Free Ports”, special issue of Global Intellectual History (2023).

(with Jacob Soll and Paula Findlen, eds.) Florence after the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790. London: Routledge, 2020.

Research Articles (selected):

“The Pilgrim at Home: Pietro della Valle in Rome, 1626-1652,” Archivio Storico Italiano 180, no. 4 (2022): 671–704.

"Port of Trade or Commodity Market? Livorno and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Mediterranean." Business History Review 94.1 (2020): 201-228.

“Maintaining Religious Boundaries in Italy during the Age of Free Trade, 1550-1750." In Jews and the Mediterranean World, eds. Jessica Marglin and Matthias Lehman. Indiana University Press, 2020.

“Capitalism and the Special Economic Zone, 1590-2014.” New Perspectives on Political Economy, ed. Sophus Reinert and Robert Fredona (Palgrave, 2018), 75-103.

“Against the Fisc and Justice: State Formation, Market Development, and Customs Fraud in Seventeenth-Century Liguria,” in The Routledge History of the Renaissance, ed. William Caferro (Routledge, 2017), 358-372.

“Managing Free Trade in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Information, and the Free Port of Livorno.” The Journal of Modern History, 85, 3: 493-529 (September, 2014).

“Capricious Demands: Artisanal Goods, Business Strategies, and Consumer Behavior in Seventeenth-Century Florence,” in Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, ed. Paula Findlen (Routledge, 2013), 204-224.

Awards and Honors

American Academy in Rome Fellowship (2019-20)
Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award (Research) (2018)
Renaissance Society of America Summer Research Grant (2015)
Harper Fellowship, Society of Fellows, University of Chicago (2011-13)
Elizabeth Spilman Rosenfield Dissertation Prize, Stanford University (2012)
Giles M. Whiting Fellowship (2010-11)
Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship (2010-11)
Fulbright U.S. Student Fellow, Italy (2008-09)
State Department Critical Language Scholarship, Turkey (2008)
Phi Beta Kappa (2004)
Dean's Medal, Georgetown University (2004)

Resume (CV)

Corey Tazzara CV