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Università Ca' Foscari
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Dorsoduro 1981
I - 30100 Venice, Italy
tel. +39 - 41 - 5281 460
Born 3 January 1952 in Venice (Italy)
Education
Laurea in Lettere cum laude (M.A. in Humanities), University of Venice, 1975
Current Position
Ricercatore universitario confermato
Grants and Fellowships
Grant of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Comitato per le scienze storiche, filosofiche e filologiche, settore di Storia medioevale, moderna e contemporanea, 1977-81
Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence), 1990-91
Visiting scholar at UCLA, Department of Sociology, Oct.-Nov. 1999.
Visiting professor at Keio University, Tokyo, Faculty of Economics, Jun.-Jul. 2000.
Areas of Competence for Research and Teaching
Social and economic history of early modern and contemporary Italy
History of the Venetian aristocracy
History of the family
Historical Demography
Database development and applications for historical research
Multivariate exploratory data analysis
Event history analysis
Social Network Analysis
Research Projects
Currently engaged in the EurAsian Project for the History of Population and the Family, a wide multidisciplinary and comparative research network in historical demography and social and economic history, with the cooperation of scholars from different European, American and Japanese Universities.
Genetic components, early-life conditions and socioeconomic factors: an analysis of longevity in Italy, 1700-1900: project funded by the Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, 2001-2002.
European Families in a Changing World: project submitted for financial support from the EC, fifth FP.
Work and Teaching Experience
Ricercatore universitario confermato, Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice: 1981 to present.
Courses held:
History of the Ancient Italian States (1992-93)
Statistics (1993-94; 1994-95)
Modern History (Historical Methods) (1996-97; 1997-98)
Historical Methods (1998-99, 1999-2001)
Languages
Italian, English, French
Publications
In print (most recent first)
Derosas, Renzo, and Michel Oris (eds.). 2002. When Dad Died. Individuals and Families Coping with Ditress in Past Societies, Bern: Peter Lang.
Derosas, Renzo, and Osamu Saito, "Introduction", in Derosas and Oris 2002: 11-23.
Derosas, Renzo, "Fatherless families in Nineteenth-Century Venice", in Derosas and Oris 2002: 433-464.
Derosas, Renzo. 2000. "La fortuna di nascere ebrei. Fattori culturali nei differenziali di mortalità infantile" [The luck of being Jew. Cultural factors in differential infant mortality], in L. Antonielli, C. Capra, M. Infelise (eds.), Per Marino Berengo. Scritti degli allievi, Milano, Franco Angeli: 743-777.
Derosas, Renzo. 2000. "Dati di stato, di flusso, di relazione. Un esempio di integrazione nello studio della proprietà fondiaria" [Static, flow and relational data. An example of integration in the study of landed property] , in Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Italie et Méditeranée. 112 (1): 193-208.
Derosas, Renzo. 2000. "Les villas dans la province de Trevise au XVIe siècle. Un problème de classification", Histoire Economie Société. 19: 49-84.
Breschi, Marco, Renzo Derosas and Matteo Manfredini. 2000. "Infant Mortality in Nineteenth-Century Italy. Interactions between Ecology and Society", in T. Bengtsson, and O. Saito, eds. Population and Economy: From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 457-489.
Breschi, Marco, Renzo Derosas and Matteo Manfredini. 2000. "Fatal Seasons in Children's Survival. Italy, 19th Century", in De l'usage des seuils. Structures par âge et âges de la vie, Sous la direction de Alain Bideau, Patrice Bourdelais, Jacques Légaré, Cahiers des Annales de Démographie Historique, n° 2, Société de Démographie Historique: 73-89.
Breschi, Marco, and Renzo Derosas. 2000. "The contribution of the EurAsian Project to the Demographic History of Italy: Results and Perspectives on Infant and Child Mortality", in M. Neven and C. Capron (eds.), Family Structures, Demography and Population. A Comparison of Societies in Asia and Europe. Liège: Laboratoire de Démographie de l'Université de Liège: 211-235.
Breschi, Marco, Renzo Derosas, Matteo Manfredini, and Rosella Rettaroli. 2000. "Family, economy and reproductive behaviour: three case-studies from pre-transitional Italy". Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati". Università degli Studi di Bologna, 46 pp.
Breschi, Marco, Renzo Derosas, Corrado Lagazio, and Matteo Manfredini. 1999. "L'influenza del contesto familiare sulla sopravvivenza dei bambini. Risultati di indagini microdemografiche sull'Italia dell'Ottocento" [The influence of the household on children's survival. Results of micro-demographic researches in nineteenth-century Italy], Bollettino di Demografia Storica, 30-31: 187-211.
Breschi, Marco, Renzo Derosas, and Matteo Manfredini. 1999. New Perspectives in Historical Demography. Udine: Università degli Studi. Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche.
Derosas, Renzo. 1999. "Residential mobility in Venice. 1850-1869", Annales de Démographie Historique. 1: 35-61.
Derosas, Renzo. 1999. "Appesi a un filo. I bambini veneziani di fronte alla morte (1850-1900)" [Hung by a thread. The Venetian children in front of death (1850-1900)], in Filippini, Nadia, Plebani, Tiziana. (eds.), La scoperta dell'infanzia a Venezia 1850-1915, Venezia: Marsilio, 39-53.
Derosas, Renzo. 1999. "Regime agrario e proprietà fondiaria nella provincia di Rovigo nella prima metà dell'Ottocento" [Agrarian patterns and landed property in the province of Rovigo during the first half of the 19th century], in Agostini, Filiberto (ed.), Rovigo e il Polesine tra rivoluzione giacobina ed età napoleonica 1797-1815, Rovigo, Minelliana: 335-375.
Derosas, Renzo. 1997. "The Villas in the Treviso Countryside in the first half of the 16th Century. A Problem of Classification", RISSH Revue Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences humaines, 33, 31-78.
Derosas, Renzo. 1997. "Riflessi privati della caduta della Repubblica" [The influence of the fall of the Republic on private life], in Gasparri, Stefano, Giovanni Levi and Pierandrea Moro, Venezia. Itinerari per la storia della città, Bologna: Il Mulino, 271-303.
Derosas, Renzo. 1996. "Storia, informatica e università in Italia" [History, computer science and University in Italy] , in Soldani, Simonetta and Luigi Tomassini (eds.), Storia & Computer. Alla ricerca del passato con l'informatica, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 150-181.
Breschi, Marco, Renzo Derosas and Rosella Rettaroli. 1995. Fertility and Economic Status in 19th-Century Urban Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Udine, Note di ricerca, 6.
Derosas, Renzo. 1993, "Une expérience d'enseignement à l'Université de Venise", Mémoire Vive, 9: 62-66.
Derosas, Renzo. 1992. "Some Considerations about the Teaching of Historical Computing in Italy", in Spaeth, Daniel, Peter Denley and Virginia Davis (eds.), Towards an International Curriculum for History and Computing: A Workshop of the International Association for History and Computing. University of Glasgow, 15 - 17 may 1992, St.Katharinen: Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, 17-20.
Derosas, Renzo. 1992. "La crisi del patriziato come crisi del sistema familiare. I Foscarini ai Carmini nel secondo Settecento" [The crisis of the aristocracy as a crisis of the family system. The Foscarini ai Carmini in the second half of the 18th century], in Studi veneti offerti a Gaetano Cozzi, Venezia: Il Cardo, 309-331.
Derosas, Renzo and Robert Rowland, 1991. "Premessa" [Forward to] Informatica e fonti storiche, [Computer science and historical sources] Quaderni storici, n. 78: 687-691.
Derosas, Renzo. 1991. "A trentacinque anni dalla "scheda" di Dal Pane: un'applicazione dell'informatica alle fonti catastali" [35 years after Dal Pane's form: an application of dabases to landed property registers], Quaderni storici, 78: 721-759.
Derosas, Renzo and Oscar Itzcovich, 1990. "Computer Science and Historical Research in Italy Focusing on Historical Information Systems", in Metz, R., E. Van Cauwenberghe and R. van der Voort, (eds.), Historical Information Systems, Session B-12b, Proceedings, Tenth International Economic History Congress, Leuven, August 1990, Leuven: Leuven University Press.
Derosas, Renzo. 1990. "Le comunità ebraiche" [The Jewish communities], Bollettino di demografia storica, n. 10: 30-34.
Derosas, Renzo. 1989-90. "Aspetti economici della crisi del patriziato veneziano tra fine Settecento e primo Ottocento" [Economic aspects of the crisis of the Venetian aristocracy at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century] , Cheiron, 7: 11-61.
Derosas, Renzo. 1989. "Informatica e ricerca storica: un incontro incompiuto" [Computer science and history: an incomplete meeting], Rivista I.B.M., 25, n. 3: 38-45.
Derosas, Renzo. 1989. "Un database per lo studio delle fonti anagrafiche" [A database for the study of population registers], Bollettino di demografia storica, 9: 89-93.
Derosas, Renzo. 1989. "A Database for the Study of the Italian Population Registers", Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 14, n. 52: 59-65 (also published in History Microcomputer Review, Fall 1989: 43-48).
Derosas, Renzo. 1989. "Un esempio di applicazione dell'informatica alla ricerca storica: basi di dati e fonti anagrafiche" [A computer application to historical research: databases and population registers], Quaderni storici, 70: 297-31.
Derosas, Renzo. 1988. "Dal patriziato alla nobiltà. Aspetti della crisi dell'aristocrazia veneziana nell'Ottocento" [From patricians to nobles. Aspects of the crisis of the Venetian aristocracy in the 19th century], in Delille, Gérard (ed.), Les noblesses européennes aux XIX siècle, Rome: 333-363.
Derosas, Renzo. 1987. "I Querini Stampalia. Vicende patrimoniali dal Cinque all'Ottocento" [The Querini Stampalia. The family estate from the 16th to the 19th century], in Busetto, Giorgio and Madile Gambier, I Querini Stampalia, un ritratto di famiglia nel Settecento veneziano, Venezia: 45-87.
Derosas, Renzo. 1987. "Aspetti del mercato fondiario nel Veneto del primo Ottocento" [Aspects of the land market in early 19th century Veneto], Quaderni storici, 65: 549-578.
Derosas, Renzo. 1980. "Moralità e giustizia a Venezia nel '500-'600. Gli Esecutori contro la bestemmia" [Morality and the law in Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Esecutori contro la bestemmia], in Cozzi, Gaetano (ed.), Stato società e giustizia nella Repubblica veneta (sec. XV - XVIII), Roma: 431-528.
Derosas, Renzo. 1978. "Lo sciopero de "La Boje" nel Polesine e le sue origini" [The strike of the "Boje" in Polesine and its origins] , Società e storia, 1: 65-86.
Derosas, Renzo. 1977. "Strutture di classe e lotte sociali nel Polesine preunitario" [Class structure and social struggle in Polesine before the national unification], Studi storici, 17: 61-90.
Forthcoming
Derosas, Renzo, "La demografia dei poveri. Pescatori, facchini e industrianti nella Venezia di metà Ottocento" [The demography of the poor. Fishermen, porters and day-laborers in mid-19th century Venice], in S. J. Woolf (ed.), Storia di Venezia, VIII, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
Derosas, Renzo. "When culture matters. Differential infant mortality of Jews and Catholics in nineteenth-century Venice". Currently under review by History of the Family.
Recent Presentations (1998-2001)
Author, Differential infant mortality of Jews and Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Venice, Quatorzièmes entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier, Colloque "La démographie des minorités - Regard croisés", Lyon, December 3-5, 2001.
Author (with Noriko Tsuya), "Infanticide, abandonment and child neglect in Eurasian communities", SSHA annual meeting, Chicago, November 15-18, 2001.
Author, "Bad brothers, good sisters: Infant neglect and conditional infant care in 19th-century Venice", Health and the Child: Care and Culture in History, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, 5th conference, Geneva, September 13th - 16th, 2001.
Author, "La mortalità infantile fatta a pezzi. Venezia a metà Ottocento" [Infant mortality broken into pieces: mid-nineteenth century Venice]. SIDES, La demografia storica italiana al passaggio del millennio, Bologna, 23-25 novembre 2000].
Author (with M. Breschi), "The Contribution of the EurAsian Project to the Demographic History of Italy: Results and Perspectives on Infant and Child Mortality", Oslo, 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, 6-13 August 2000.
Author, "When Culture Matters. Infant Mortality Differentials between Jews and Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Venice", Oslo, 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, 6-13 August 2000.
Author (with M.Breschi and M.Oris), "Disentangling the causes of infant and child mortality", Los Angeles, PAA meeting, March 2000.
Author (with M.Breschi and M.Oris), "Achievement and Challenges of the Eurasia Project, 1995-2000", Kyoto (Japan), February 29 - March 1, 2000.
Author (with M.Breschi), European Science Foundation Network, "Family structures, Demography and Population: A Comparison of Societies in Asia and Europe", Liège, January 8-9 2000.
Author (with M.Breschi, M.Manfredini, R.Rettaroli), Session on "Fertility and economic stress in Europe and Asia: results from the Eurasia Project", SSHA Meeting, Fort Worth (Texas), November 11-14, 1999.
Author, Nouvelle approches de la documentation notariale et histoire urbaine. Le cas italien (XVIIe-XIXe siècle). Table ronde organisée par l'École française de Rome.
Author, Session on "Family systems and the significance of 'leaving home': from complex systems to nuclear ones", European Science Foundation Network "Household and Community Dynamics: an EurAsian Approach to Mobility in Past Societies", workshop 2, "Leaving Home", The Hague, June 19-20, 1999.
Author, Session on "La campagna trasformata", Fondazione Giorgio Cini, workshop on "L'ambiente: percezione e interventi", Venice, May 17-19, 1999.
Author (with M.Breschi and M.Manfredini), Session on "Temi di demografia storica" (Issues of Historical Demography). Società Italiana di Statistica, Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione. Firenze, January 7-9, 1999.
Author (with M.Breschi and M.Manfredini), Peking University, Meeting on Nuptiality and Family Formation in Comparative EurAsian Perspective, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China, November 25-29, 1998.
Author, Session on "Making one's way in the city". Fourth International Congress on Urban History, Venice 1-5 September, 1998.
President of the Scientific Committee, organizer and author, European Science Foundation Network "Household and Community Dynamics: an EurAsian Approach to Mobility in Past Societies", workshop 1, When dad died. Family stress and household dynamics in historical societies, Venice, May 23-24, 1998.
Author, Session on "A death in the household", Annual Meeting of the European Social Science History Association, Amsterdam, March 1998.
Author, Meeting "Nuove prospettive in demografia storica. Le biografie individuali nell'analisi della mortalità" [New perspectives in historical demography. Individual biographies in mortality analysis], Udine, February 1998.