- Marvels of the Levant: Print Media and the Politics of Wonder in Early Modern Venice Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2020. Marvels of the Levant: Print Media and the Politics of Wonder in Early Modern Venice. History Workshop Journal, 90, pp. 25-51. ISSN 1363-3554
- Review of "A Short History of Western Ideology: A Critical Account" by Rolf Petri (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2020. Review of "A Short History of Western Ideology: A Critical Account" by Rolf Petri (London: Bloomsbury, 2018). Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 22(2), pp. 281-282. ISSN 1944-8953
- The woman of Candia: gender, monstrous birth and printed news in the aftermath of the Cretan War (1645-69) Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2019. The woman of Candia: gender, monstrous birth and printed news in the aftermath of the Cretan War (1645-69). Cretica Chronica, 39, pp. 381-408. ISSN 0454-5206
- Printing empire: visual culture and the imperial archive in seventeenth-century Venice Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2016. Printing empire: visual culture and the imperial archive in seventeenth-century Venice. The Historical Journal, 59(3), pp. 635-668. ISSN 0018-246X
- Talk, script and print: the making of island books in early modern Venice. Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2013. Talk, script and print: the making of island books in early modern Venice. Historical Research, 86(232), pp. 207-229. ISSN 1468-2281
- Review of Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism, and the Ancien Régime by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe (Oxford-New York: Berg, 2008) Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2012. Review of Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism, and the Ancien Régime by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe (Oxford-New York: Berg, 2008). Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 14(4), pp. 468-469. ISSN 1944-8953
- Colonial encounters, local knowledge and the making of the cartographic archive in the Venetian Peloponnese Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2012. Colonial encounters, local knowledge and the making of the cartographic archive in the Venetian Peloponnese. European Review of History / Revue européenne d'histoire, 19(4), pp. 491-514. ISSN 1350-7486
- Review of Trading places: the Netherlandish merchants in early modern Venice by Maartje van Gelder (Leiden: Brill, 2009) Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2011. Review of Trading places: the Netherlandish merchants in early modern Venice by Maartje van Gelder (Leiden: Brill, 2009). The Economic History Review, 64(3), pp. 1049-1050. ISSN 0013-0117
- Review of Stuart Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007) Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2008. Review of Stuart Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007). European Review of History / Revue Européenne d’Histoire, 15(5), pp. 551-552. ISSN 1350-7486
- Costruendo un luogo della memoria: Lepanto Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2003. Costruendo un luogo della memoria: Lepanto. Storia di Venezia - Rivista, 1, pp. 65-88.
- Propaganda figurata: geometrie di dominio e ideologie veneziane nelle carte di Vincenzo Coronelli Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2002. Propaganda figurata: geometrie di dominio e ideologie veneziane nelle carte di Vincenzo Coronelli. Studi veneziani, 44, pp. 129-155.
- Tra le ragioni di una sconfitta. Una relazione inedita sulla guerra di Candia (1662) Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2002. Tra le ragioni di una sconfitta. Una relazione inedita sulla guerra di Candia (1662). Archivio veneto, 159, pp. 117-140.
Dr Anastasia Stouraiti
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Anastasia is a cultural historian, researching the history of Venice and its Mediterranean empire
Anastasia Stouraiti is a cultural historian, specialising in the history of the Republic of Venice and its Mediterranean empire. She is the author of War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge University Press 2023; paperback 2025). Currently she is working on two research projects: Venice - A New Imperial History, funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, and Infrastructures of Empire - Venetian Fortifications and Spatial Violence in Early Modern Greece, funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Hellenic Republic “Greece 2.0”.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in History, University of Athens 2003
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy 2018
Teaching and supervision
- Mediterranean Encounters: Venice and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1797 (Year 2/3 Option)
- Visual and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (Year 2/3 Option)
- Art and Power in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Year 1 Option)
Featured publications
2023:
War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge University Press 2023); paperback 2025
"superbly well-researched ... a model of interdisciplinary work in the humanities" - Edward Muir (Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2024)
Grants and awards
2025: Visiting Researcher Grant - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
2020: British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship Award
2016: Gerda Henkel Foundation Research Grant
2016: Fritz Thyssen Foundation Small Research Grant
2014: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
2011: British Academy Small Research Grant
2007: Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute, Florence
2006: Research Grant, Greek State Scholarships Foundation - Department of History, Ionian University of Corfu
2004: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
Publications and research outputs
Book
- War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2023. War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108838443
Edited Book
- Venezia e la guerra di Morea. Guerra, politica e cultura alla fine del ‘600 Infelise, Mario; and Stouraiti, Anastasia , eds. 2005. Venezia e la guerra di Morea. Guerra, politica e cultura alla fine del ‘600. Milan: Franco Angeli.
- Memorie di un ritorno. La guerra di Morea nei manoscritti della Querini Stampalia (1684-1699) Stouraiti, Anastasia , ed. 2001. Memorie di un ritorno. La guerra di Morea nei manoscritti della Querini Stampalia (1684-1699). Venice: Fondazione Scientifica Querini Stampalia.
Book Section
- Recasting the history of Venetian rule in Greece Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2025. Recasting the history of Venetian rule in Greece. In: Stefanos Katsikas, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek History. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197759523
- 'Diplomatic Relations through Trade, Peace and Conflict: the Doge, the Sultan, the Bailo, the Ambassador, the Dragoman' Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2024. 'Diplomatic Relations through Trade, Peace and Conflict: the Doge, the Sultan, the Bailo, the Ambassador, the Dragoman'. In: Stefano Carboni, ed. Venice and the Ottoman Empire: A Tale of Art, Culture, and Exchange. New York: Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 9780847838790
- "War, religion and the cultural history of Venice: the case of the Ottoman siege of Corfu (1716)" Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2018. "War, religion and the cultural history of Venice: the case of the Ottoman siege of Corfu (1716)". In: Gerassimos Pagratis, ed. War, State and Society in the Ionian Sea (late 14th - early 19th c.) (in Greek). Athens: Herodotos. ISBN 978-960-485-194-2
Article
- Lepanto or Little Algiers? Public history and the cultural politics of commemoration in modern Greece Stouraiti, Anastasia ORCID logo
- Venice - Tales of Displacement and Space Invaders Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2023. Venice - Tales of Displacement and Space Invaders. Quaderni della Rivista Storica Italiana - Twelve Cities – One Sea: Early Modern Mediterranean Port Cities and Their Inhabitants, pp. 209-224. ISSN 0035-7073
- Paths Not Taken: Imperial Legacies and Diasporic Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2022. Paths Not Taken: Imperial Legacies and Diasporic Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean. The Historical Journal, 65(3), pp. 830-833. ISSN 0018-246X
Exhibition Catalogue
- Immagini dal mito. La guerra di Morea 1684-1699 nelle raccolte della Querini Stampalia Marasso, Laura; and Stouraiti, Anastasia . 2001. Immagini dal mito. La guerra di Morea 1684-1699 nelle raccolte della Querini Stampalia.