GiD Lab: Capitalism in Motion. Imagining, Transforming, and Inventing Economic Forms over Time

Kalman Lubowsky Professor of Law and History, and former Dean

Harris’ research field is the history of the business corporation in Britain and comparatively, and in the wider context of legal and economic history. He earned a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. He was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Stanford, Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, USC, Cornell University, École Normale, London School of Economics. He is a co-founder of the Israeli Legal History Association and the President of the Economic History Association of Israel.

Assistant Professor

Stefania Gialdroni is currently Research Fellow at the RomaTre University Law Department, where she teaches “Medieval and Modern Legal History” and “The Legal Protection of Cultural Heritage”. She received her PhD “en-cotutelle” from the Universities of Milano-Bicocca and the EHESS (Paris). She has published articles on the History of Commercial Law and on Law and the Humanities. She is the author of the monograph “East India Company. Una storia giuridica (1600-1708)” (2011) and co-editor of the book “Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law” (2019).

Research Fellow

The idea and concept for this event came from Carlo Taviani. He is a Project Researcher at the German Historical Institute in Rome. He received his PhD from the University of Perugia. He has been a Fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Villa I Tatti, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trent, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago and at the MacMillan Center at Yale and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cape Town. He taught at the Università degli Studi di Teramo, the Università degli Studi di Trento and, the University of Cape Town.

Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant to the Director for Academic Programs

Ingrid Greenfield is the panel moderator. She is Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant to the Director for Academic Programs at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University’s Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago, and she has worked at museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of African Arts. Her work addresses exchange between sub-Saharan West Africa and the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, and the collecting of foreign goods and prestige objects by elites in both regions. Recent projects include organization of the international conference “Crossroads Africa: African Engagement in the Making of Early Modernity” in 2019, a forthcoming edited volume from Harvard University Press, and writing for the exhibition “On Being Present: Recovering Blackness in the Uffizi Galleries,” highlighting the histories and historical context of Black African figures in the Uffizi collection.