Associated Researcher, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC, EHESS, Paris)

• Email: au.gritti@gmail.com
• ORCID: 0009-0008-8428-0164

I am an economic and social historian of the (post-)Ottoman Balkans. I was trained in History and International Studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Pisa (2014–2019) and earned my PhD from the EHESS in 2023. My doctoral research examined the impact of the first globalization on the internal economy of Macedonia and Kosovo, with a particular focus on the commercial houses of Salonica operated by Jewish families of Italian origin. Taking business history as a point of entry, I investigated how international trade—its cycles and the uneven distribution of its benefits—was experienced, interpreted, and debated at the local level, both by agricultural producers who sustained these flows and by consumers affected by them. In doing so, my dissertation addressed transnational financial structures, land regimes, imperial governance, and the dynamics of the Ottoman public sphere. I am currently completing two book projects based on this research, while defining my future agenda. Its broader aim is to shed new light on the integration of Balkan territories and populations into the institutions of both the world economy and nation-states in the modern and contemporary periods.