Silvia Berti is a history professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza

University of Rome La Sapienza

The Sapienza University of Rome, officially Sapienza – Università di Roma, formerly known as Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a coeducational, autonomous state university in Rome, Italy...

. Her field of interest is European anti-Christian attitudes, Spinoza and Spinozism

Spinozism

Spinozism is the monist philosophical system of Baruch Spinoza which defines "God" as a singular self-subsistent substance, and both matter and thought as attributes of such...

, the Huguenot

Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...

s, Jansenists and other opposition groups within French history.

Publications

Her most prominent published works include; Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism. She is on the editorial board of Hebraic Political Studies

Hebraic Political Studies

Hebraic Political Studies is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Shalem Press and devoted to recovering the Hebraic political tradition and evaluating its place in the history of political thought.- History :...

 and has published in the Journal of the History of Ideas

Journal of the History of Ideas

The Journal of the History of Ideas is a peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes research in intellectual history. The journal "defines intellectual history expansively and ecumenically," and includes the histories of philosophy, literature and the arts, natural and social sciences,...

, the Jewish Studies Quarterly, and Rivista storica italiana. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (Philadelphia) (1999–2000), the Folger Shakespeare Library (1995–96), and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University (1993–94).