About

My research interest is in the slave trade in fifteenth-century Italy – most particularly in Florence. My work is on the ground level, looking at the cultural exchanges of the slave trade and the social ramifications of domestic slavery in Florence. I look at cultural exchange not as imposed on the enslaved population but rather the enslaved populations affect on the cultural changes within Italy. I also focus on the economic considerations of the slave trade and its origins. I am interested in merging my scholarship with digital humanities, especially through mapping the routes of the slave trade across the Mediterranean and TEI encoding to create a comprehensive search engine for Florentine documents.