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Giorgio Riello

Visiting Scholar (Sep 2017-Aug 2018)

PhD, Professor of Global History and Culture, University of Warwick

Giorgio Riello is Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick, formerly Director of the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study between 2014 and 2017 and currently Chair of the Pasold Research Fund. Giorgio is the author of four books including Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (CUP 2013 and recipient of the World History Association Book Prize 2014), Luxury: A Rich History (OUP, 2016, co-authored with Peter McNeil), and eight edited books.

In 2011 Giorgio was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize. He has also been a visiting fellow at Stanford University, and The National University of Australia, and a visiting professor at The European University Institute and Columbia University. In 2016 he was the recipient of the Iris Foundation Award for his contribution to the Decorative Arts and Material Culture. He is member of the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal of World History and Past & Present.

Giorgio has published extensively on the history of textiles, trade, and technological exchange between Europe and Asia in the early modern period. His current project is a theoretical and historical reflection on the nature of technological innovation in early modern Europe and China.

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Cultures of Innovation in Global History

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Wefts of Innovation in Premodern China (13th–17th Century)

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Past Events

Colloquium

The Rhetoric of Innovation: Silk Treatises in Pre-modern China and Europe

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News & Press

History Today praises book Threads of Global Desire by Dagmar Schäfer, Giorgio Riello, and Luca Molà

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