Silvia Carraro

Silvia Carraro is a Researcher at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her career centers on medieval history, with specialized expertise in gender history, religious history, and the history of disability and mental illness in Italy. She combines critical analysis of medieval documents with information technologies for data management.

• Education: Ph.D. in Medieval History (University of Milan, 2012), M.A. in History (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2008), and Diploma in Archive Studies (State Archives of Venice, 2013).

Her research explores intersections between institutions and personal microhistories, focusing on female monasticism in Venice (9th–14th centuries) and medieval disability perceptions. Recent work analyzes psychiatric hospital archives from Verona.

Scientific awards include the prestigious Franca Pieroni Bortolotti Award (2014) and an honorable mention for the Premio Brunacci (2017). She has contributed to archival digitization projects and supervised master's students.

Active in academic dissemination, Carraro collaborates with organizations like the Italian Association of Women Historians and Società Veneta per la Storia Religiosa, organizing conferences and educational programs on gender, religious history, and archival studies.