Notes on Contributors
Marcella Aglietti
is a full professor in the History of Political Institutions at the Department of Political Science, University of Pisa (Italy). Her research focuses on comparative history of political institutions and governmental practices, history of consular institutions, procedures for the recognition and naturalisation of citizenship, and history of ruling elites. Among her publications: L’istituto consolare tra Sette e Ottocento (Pisa, 2012); In nome della neutralità. Storia politico-istituzionale di Spagna durante la prima guerra mondiale (Rome, 2017); with Fabrice Jesné and Mathieu Grenet (ed.), Consoli e consolati italiani dagli Stati preunitari al fascismo (1802–1945) (Roma, 2020); and Citizenship under pressure. Naturalisation policies from the late xix century until the aftermath of World War i (Rome, 2021).
Eleonora Angella
is a post-doctoral researcher at the Università per Stranieri in Siena. After completing a Ph.D. in International Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” she held positions as a visiting scholar at the University of Bern (2021–2022) and as a post-doctoral researcher at the Università della Tuscia in Viterbo (2022–2023). Her research examines the lives of the Italians in Egypt during the late nineteenth century, with particular attention to the impact of extraterritoriality on social history, the agency of subalterns within the justice system, and the history of the Italian consulate in Cairo. She is the author of the monograph Italiani al Cairo. Consoli, giurisdizione e società (Palermo: New Digital Frontiers, 2023/2024).
Arnaud Bartolomei
Ancien membre de la Casa de Velázquez, Arnaud Bartolomei est actuellement professeur d’histoire moderne et contemporaine à l’Université Côte d’Azur et membre du Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine. Il a co-dirigé trois publications consacrées à l’institution des consuls des étrangers (« La chancellerie consulaire française (xvie–xxe siècle) : attributions, organisation, agents, usagers », mefrim, 2016, De l’utilité commerciale des consuls. L’institution consulaire et les marchands dans le monde méditerranéen (xviie–xixe siècle), 2018, « Stratégies identitaires et procédures d’identification des étrangers en Espagne, dans l’Amérique hispanique et en Méditerranée (xviie–xixe siècle) », Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2021). Il travaille actuellement à l’édition d’un ouvrage dédié à l’ouverture commerciale du Mexique au moment de son indépendance (À l’aube de la mondialisation contemporaine. Exclusifs coloniaux et liberté du commerce dans l’Atlantique hispanique, 1750–1850, en cours).
Thibault Bechini
Docteur en histoire de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Thibault Bechini a soutenu en 2020 une thèse intitulée Des villes migrantes : Marseille, Buenos Aires. Construire et habiter les périphéries urbaines au temps des migrations italiennes (1860–1914), récompensée par le prix d’histoire sociale de la Fondation Mattei Dogan, le prix d’histoire de la Société française d’histoire urbaine et le prix du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Il est actuellement membre scientifique de l’École française de Rome.
Giorgio Ennas
is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utrecht (uu) and an affiliated scholar at Franklin University Switzerland (fus). His fields of interest are the history of knowledge, diplomacy and health in the Mediterranean during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular reference to the relations between the Ottoman Empire and the European countries in the Balkan area and in North Africa, particularly with Italy and Switzerland. Between 2021 and 2023, he has worked as the Principal Investigator (pi) of a two-year project entitled Pandemics and Borders funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (snis). Between 2023 and 2025, he worked as the pi and Research Associate (ar) of research projects funded by the Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici (gcss) of Rome and the Laboratorio di Storia delle Alpi (LabisAlp) of the University of Italian Switzerland (usi). Since September 2024, he works as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utrecht in the erc project Fighting Pandemics from Below led by Ozan Ozavci (uu). In 2026, he published with Bloomsbury his first monograph entitled Italo-Ottoman Relations in the Age of the Congress of Paris. Mirroring the ‘Other’, 1856–1871.
Ana Belem Fernández Castro
is a postdoc researcher at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples. She got her Ph.D. in History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence. She is interested in commercial legal history, legal institutions, and the support of long-distance trade in early modern times. She is the author of the book Justicia, Comercio e Instituciones en la Carrera de Indias. Siglo xvi (Presses de l’Université de Toulouse Capitole, 2024).
Juliette Françoise
is completing a joint Ph.D. at the University of Geneva and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is interested in the monetary history of the early modern French empire, with a particular focus on the French presence in Asia. Her thesis examines the nature and the effects of liquidity provision by the French State to finance trade and war overseas and govern and rule the settlements it conquered or acquired in Asia. Her research aims to redefine the workings of the French Empire through the lens of money.
Laura Galoppini
Ph.D. in medieval history at the University of Ghent, is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Pisa. Her studies and main research topics concern the Tuscan mercantile presence in the Late Middle Ages, in the Mediterranean area (Sardinia, Catalonia), and north of the Alps with particular attention to the Lucca presence in Flanders. Among her main publications: Mercanti toscani e Bruges nel tardo Medioevo (Pisa: Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, 2009); I Parlamenti dei viceré Angelo di Vilanova (1518–1523 e 1528) e Martino Cabrero (1530), 2 vol. (Cagliari: Consiglio Regionale della Sardegna, 2016).
Sacha Gauthier Olssy
est diplômé d’un master en Sciences historique obtenu à l’université Nice-Côte d’Azur en 2022. Durant ce master il a écrit un mémoire intitulé « La juridiction consulaire dans la concession française de Tianjin entre 1900 et 1943 ».
Thomas Gidney
is an international historian whose research focuses on the impact of colonial politics on international relations. His first book, An International Anomaly: Colonial Accession to the League of Nations, examines the British Empire’s promotion of colonies to international organisations, and this reconceptualises perceptions of international recognition and inter-state sovereignty. He completed his Ph.D. at the Graduate Institute of Geneva and is currently a visiting fellow at the University of Geneva.
Berna Kamay Ulusay
is a lecturer at Sabancı University, Foundations Development Programme (fdp), where she offers courses on the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish Republic, and World History. She received her Ph.D. in History from Boğaziçi University in 2022 with a dissertation entitled “Extradition in the Ottoman International Legal Practice of the Nineteenth Century.” Her research focuses on legal history in the Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, international law, and the politics of legal belonging. She is particularly interested in diplo-legal encounters and the ways in which property rights and nationality were negotiated across imperial and trans-imperial contexts. One of her recent publications, The Ottoman Empire, the United States, and the Legal Battle over Extradition: The ‘Kelly Affair,’ has been published in New Perspectives on Turkey.
Jessica Marglin
is Professor of Religion, Law, and History, and the Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She earned her Ph.D. from Princeton and her ba and ma from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on law.
Cédric Quertier
Chargé de recherche au cnrs (lamop – umr 8589), ancien membre de l’École Française de Rome et de la Villa i Tatti, Cédric Quertier coordonne le projet anr ecomed (Les économies méditerranéennes à la fin du Moyen Âge [1350–1500] : crises, reconstructions, restructurations). Spécialiste de la régulation judiciaire des conflits marchands, des nations marchandes et des migrations, il a notamment publié Guerres et richesses d’une nation. Les Florentins à Pise au xive siècle (Publication de l’École française de Rome, 2022) et, avec Marie Dejoux, Harmony Dewez et Emmanuel Huertas, Les fruits de la terre. Études d’histoire médiévale offertes à Laurent Feller (Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2023).
Lars Regula
studied law and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Hamburg. His Ph.D. thesis deals with the German consular jurisdiction in the Ottoman Empire between 1761 and 1917.
Victor Simon
Agrégé des facultés de droit, Victor Simon est professeur d’Histoire du droit à l’Université de Lille et membre du Centre d’histoire judiciaire (umr 8025). Il a notamment publié un ouvrage sur Les échelles du Levant et de Barbarie : droit du commerce international entre la France et l’Empire ottoman (xvie–xviiie siècle). Ses recherches portent plus largement sur l’histoire du droit des affaires, l’histoire de la justice commerciale ou l’histoire du droit des sociétés.
Jörg Ulbert
est maître de conférences d’allemand à l’Université Bretagne Sud. Ses recherches portent essentiellement sur l’histoire des services consulaires français à l’époque moderne. Ses publications peuvent être consultées à l’adresse suivante : https://univ-ubs.academia.edu/JörgUlbert.
Dominique Valérian
Ancien membre de l’École française de Rome, Dominique Valérian est professeur d’histoire médiévale à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et directeur de l’équipe Islam médiéval de l’umr 8167 Orient et Méditerranée. Il est spécialiste de l’Islam et de la Méditerranée au Moyen Âge, notamment des relations entre chrétiens et musulmans. Il a publié notamment Bougie, port maghrébin. 1067–1510 (Rome : efr, 2006) et Ports et réseaux d’échanges dans le Maghreb médiéval (Madrid : Casa de Velázquez, 2019), et coédité Le détroit de Gibraltar. À la croisée des mers et des continents (Antiquité – Moyen Âge) (Toulouse, Madrid : Presses Universitaires du Midi, Casa de Velázquez, 2022).