Dr Anastasia Stouraiti

Staff details

Position

Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History

Department

History

Email

a.stouraiti (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Centre for the Study of the Balkans

Anastasia is a cultural historian of early modernity, researching the history of Venice and its Mediterranean empire

Anastasia Stouraiti is a cultural historian of the early modern period, specialising in the history of the Republic of Venice and its maritime empire. Her work examines Venetian-Ottoman relations and the impact of Venetian colonialism on metropolitan culture. Her research and teaching interests include the history of political communication, early modern print and visual culture, and the history of the Mediterranean. She has just published a book titled War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge University Press 2023), in which she integrates the history of Venetian empire-building into media history and cultural history.

Her current research project, 'Venice: A New Imperial History', is funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.

Academic qualifications

PhD in History, University of Athens 2003
MA in History, University of Athens 1998
BA in History, University of Athens 1995
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)
Media, Culture and Empire in Early Modern Venice (Year 3 Special Subject)
Art and Power in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Year 1 Option)
The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe - lecture block on 'Global Connections' (Year 1 Core Module)

Featured publications

2023: War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge University Press 2023)

2020: Marvels of the Levant: Print Media and the Politics of Wonder in Early Modern Venice. History Workshop Journal, 90, 25-51

2016: Printing empire: visual culture and the imperial archive in seventeenth-century Venice. The Historical Journal, 59(3), 635-68

2014: Collecting the Past: Greek Antiquaries and Archaeological Knowledge in the Venetian Empire.

2013: Talk, script and print: the making of island books in early modern Venice. Historical Research, 86 (232), 207-29

Grants and awards

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

Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2023. War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108838443

Edited Book

Infelise, Mario and Stouraiti, Anastasia, eds. 2005. Venezia e la guerra di Morea. Guerra, politica e cultura alla fine del ‘600. Milan: Franco Angeli.

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

Stouraiti, Anastasia and Kazamias, Alexander. 2018. "Megali İdea’nın Hayali Topografyaları: Ütopya Olarak Ulusal Topraklar". In: P. Nikiforos Diamandouros; Thaleia Dragonas and Çağlar Keyder, eds. Mekân ve Millet : Yunanistan ve Türkiye'nin Coğrafyalarının Oluşumu, trans. Ebru Kilic. Istanbul: Koç University Press. ISBN 978-605-9389-84-6

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

Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2014. Collecting the Past: Greek Antiquaries and Archaeological Knowledge in the Venetian Empire. In: Dimitris Tziovas, ed. Re-imagining the Past: Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 29-46. ISBN 9780199672752

Article

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

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

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

Exhibition Catalogue

Marasso, Laura and Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2001. Immagini dal mito. La guerra di Morea 1684-1699 nelle raccolte della Querini Stampalia.