Department of History
Assistant Professor
Office: Powdermaker Hall 352YY
Phone: 718-997-5410
Fax: 718-997-5359
Email: francesca.bregoli@qc.cuny.edu
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2007 (History)
MA, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2001 (Jewish Art and Material Culture)
Laurea, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, 1998 (Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
Research Interests
Eighteenth-century Italian and Sephardi Jewish history with a particular focus on the relationship between Jewish society and Enlightenment culture, sociability, and the history of the Jewish book.
My first book, "Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform," is a study of Jewish integration and lay culture in Livorno, Tuscany at the time of the Enlightenment (forthcoming with Stanford University Press).
Academic Positions
2009-present: Assistant Professor of History and Joseph and Oro Halegua Professor of Greek and Sephardic Jewish Studies
2007-2009: Junior Research Fellow, Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford (UK)
Selected Fellowships and Awards
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2013-2014
PSC-CUNY 43 Research Award (2012-2013)
CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, Spring 2011
PSC-CUNY 41 Research Award (2010-2011)
Summer Research Workshop “Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust”, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, June 2010
Doctoral Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2006-2007
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2005-2006
Bernard Manekin Fellowship in the History of Jewish Art, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2000-2001
Fondazione Primo Levi (Florence) Award for an outstanding Laurea thesis in Jewish studies, 1999