Corinna Peres

Corinna Peres is a PhD candidate and university assistant at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. She received her Master of Arts degree with distinction in History and Romance Philology (Italian) from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. In 2022, she held a research grant from the German Historical Institute in Rome, Italy. Her research interests lie in the history of labour, slavery and the slave trade in the Mediterranean, with a special focus on Tuscan...See more

Corinna Peres is a PhD candidate and university assistant at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. She received her Master of Arts degree with distinction in History and Romance Philology (Italian) from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. In 2022, she held a research grant from the German Historical Institute in Rome, Italy. Her research interests lie in the history of labour, slavery and the slave trade in the Mediterranean, with a special focus on Tuscan merchant networks in the late Middle Ages. See less