Raffaele Danna

Raffaele Danna is a Max Weber Fellow at the Department of History, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy. He is part of the Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies, a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship supporting early-career scholars in the social sciences and humanities.

He received his PhD in History from the University of Cambridge in 2021. His doctoral research explored the socio-economic dimensions of the adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in European practical arithmetic from the 13th to the 16th centuries, bridging economic and social histories of mathematics.

Raffaele's research interests lie at the intersection of economic history, the history of science, and the history of technology. He investigates how the embodied circulation of knowledge drives economic, scientific, and technological change. His current work includes finalizing his first monograph based on his PhD research and designing a new project that further integrates economic history with the history of science and technology. He is actively involved in the EUI research clusters on Digital transformations and society and Technological change and society.

Before joining the EUI, Raffaele worked at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies on the Horizon 2020 project ReCreating Europe, applying his expertise as an economist. His research has been supported by the Cambridge Trust, the Faculty of History (University of Cambridge), the Economic History Society, and the Cambridge Political Economy Society.

He has teaching experience in late medieval history, historical methods, and courses on the history of capitalism, economic history, and the history of accounting, having taught at the University of Cambridge, and contributed to programs in Pisa and Bologna.

His academic mentors include Professor Lauren Kassell, and he was previously mentored by Professor Regina Grafe, a former EUI faculty member.

• Email: raffaele.danna@eui.eu
• Phone: +39 055 4685 416
• Office: Badia Fiesolana, BF426