- Marvels of the Levant: Print Media and the Politics of Wonder in Early Modern Venice Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2020. Marvels of the Levant: Print Media and the Politics of Wonder in Early Modern Venice. History Workshop Journal, 90, pp. 25-51. ISSN 1363-3554
- Review of "A Short History of Western Ideology: A Critical Account" by Rolf Petri (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) 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
- The woman of Candia: gender, monstrous birth and printed news in the aftermath of the Cretan War (1645-69) Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2019. The woman of Candia: gender, monstrous birth and printed news in the aftermath of the Cretan War (1645-69). Cretica Chronica, 39, pp. 381-408. ISSN 0454-5206
- Printing empire: visual culture and the imperial archive in seventeenth-century Venice Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2016. Printing empire: visual culture and the imperial archive in seventeenth-century Venice. The Historical Journal, 59(3), pp. 635-668. ISSN 0018-246X
- Talk, script and print: the making of island books in early modern Venice. Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2013. Talk, script and print: the making of island books in early modern Venice. Historical Research, 86(232), pp. 207-229. ISSN 1468-2281
- Colonial encounters, local knowledge and the making of the cartographic archive in the Venetian Peloponnese Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2012. Colonial encounters, local knowledge and the making of the cartographic archive in the Venetian Peloponnese. European Review of History / Revue européenne d'histoire, 19(4), pp. 491-514. ISSN 1350-7486
- Review of Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism, and the Ancien Régime by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe (Oxford-New York: Berg, 2008) Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2012. Review of Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism, and the Ancien Régime by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe (Oxford-New York: Berg, 2008). Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 14(4), pp. 468-469. ISSN 1944-8953
- Review of Trading places: the Netherlandish merchants in early modern Venice by Maartje van Gelder (Leiden: Brill, 2009) Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2011. Review of Trading places: the Netherlandish merchants in early modern Venice by Maartje van Gelder (Leiden: Brill, 2009). The Economic History Review, 64(3), pp. 1049-1050. ISSN 0013-0117
- Review of Stuart Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007) Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2008. Review of Stuart Clark, Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007). European Review of History / Revue Européenne d’Histoire, 15(5), pp. 551-552. ISSN 1350-7486
- Costruendo un luogo della memoria: Lepanto Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2003. Costruendo un luogo della memoria: Lepanto. Storia di Venezia - Rivista, 1, pp. 65-88.
- Tra le ragioni di una sconfitta. Una relazione inedita sulla guerra di Candia (1662) Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2002. Tra le ragioni di una sconfitta. Una relazione inedita sulla guerra di Candia (1662). Archivio veneto, 159, pp. 117-140.
- Propaganda figurata: geometrie di dominio e ideologie veneziane nelle carte di Vincenzo Coronelli Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2002. Propaganda figurata: geometrie di dominio e ideologie veneziane nelle carte di Vincenzo Coronelli. Studi veneziani, 44, pp. 129-155.
Dr Anastasia Stouraiti
Anastasia is a cultural historian, researching the history of Venice and its Mediterranean empire
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Anastasia Stouraiti is a cultural historian, 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
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy 2018
Teaching and supervision
Featured publications
2023:
War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice (Cambridge University Press 2023); paperback 2025
"superbly well-researched ... a model of interdisciplinary work in the humanities" - Edward Muir (Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2024)
2014: Collecting the Past: Greek Antiquaries and Archaeological Knowledge in the Venetian Empire.
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
- War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2023. War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108838443
Edited Book
- Venezia e la guerra di Morea. Guerra, politica e cultura alla fine del ‘600 Infelise, Mario and Stouraiti, Anastasia, eds. 2005. Venezia e la guerra di Morea. Guerra, politica e cultura alla fine del ‘600. Milan: Franco Angeli.
- Memorie di un ritorno. La guerra di Morea nei manoscritti della Querini Stampalia (1684-1699) 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
- 'Diplomatic Relations through Trade, Peace and Conflict: the Doge, the Sultan, the Bailo, the Ambassador, the Dragoman' Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2024. 'Diplomatic Relations through Trade, Peace and Conflict: the Doge, the Sultan, the Bailo, the Ambassador, the Dragoman'. In: Stefano Carboni, ed. Venice and the Ottoman Empire: A Tale of Art, Culture, and Exchange. New York: Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 9780847838790
- "War, religion and the cultural history of Venice: the case of the Ottoman siege of Corfu (1716)" 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
- "Megali İdea’nın Hayali Topografyaları: Ütopya Olarak Ulusal Topraklar" 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
Article
- Lepanto or Little Algiers? Public history and the cultural politics of commemoration in modern Greece Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2024. Lepanto or Little Algiers? Public history and the cultural politics of commemoration in modern Greece. Rethinking History, ISSN 1364-2529
- Venice - Tales of Displacement and Space Invaders 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
- Paths Not Taken: Imperial Legacies and Diasporic Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean 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
Exhibition Catalogue
- Immagini dal mito. La guerra di Morea 1684-1699 nelle raccolte della Querini Stampalia Marasso, Laura and Stouraiti, Anastasia. 2001. Immagini dal mito. La guerra di Morea 1684-1699 nelle raccolte della Querini Stampalia.