Renzo Derosas
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Renzo Derosas graduated at Ca’ Foscari, Department of Historical Studies, where he is Associate Professor, teaching Economic History. Was researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, invited scholar at UCLA and visiting professor at Keio University. Member of both the European and the American Social Science History Associations, and of the Italian Society of Historical Demography (SIDeS). Areas of competence include History of the Family, Historical Demography, Database development and applications to historical research, Multivariate exploratory data analysis, Event History Analysis, Social Network Analysis. Currently involved in the Eurasia Project on Population and Family History (EAP).
Edited, with Michel Oris, When Dad Died. Individuals and Families Coping with Distress in Past Societies, Bern: Peter Lang, 2002.
Recent works in English also include:
(with M.Breschi and M.Manfredini) "Mortality and Environment in Three Emilian, Tuscan and Venetian Communities, 1800-1883" and (with O.Michel and M.Breschi) "Infant and Child Mortality", in Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, James Lee, et al. (eds.), Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900, Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press 2004;
"Socio-economic Factors in Infant and Child Mortality: Venice in Mid-Nineteenth Century," in M.Breschi and L. Pozzi (eds.), The Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Past European Populations, Udine – Sassari: Forum, 2004;
"A family affair: marriage, mobility, and living arrangements in nineteenth-century Venice", in Frans van Poppel, James Lee, and Michel Oris (eds.), The Road to Independence. Leavers and Stayers in the Household in Europe, Bern: Peter Lang: 2003;
“Zoller vindicated”. Historical Methods. 37: 2004, 199-200; "Watch out for the children! Differential infant mortality of Jews and Catholics in nineteenth-century Venice." Historical Methods. 36.3: 2003, 109-130.
