Dr David Rosenthal

David Rosenthal is a research fellow in the school of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies. He specialises in the social history of early modern Italy and more recently in digital public history with mobile devices. He co-directs the innovative HistoryCity apps series, and the HistoryScapes app in partnership with the National Trust.

David did his undergraduate degree in English at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, and BA (Hons) and PhD in history at Monash University in Melbourne. He has held teaching and research fellowships at the University of Edinburgh and Harvard University's Villa I Tatti in Florence. Prior to becoming a professional historian he was a journalist and worked at agencies and newspapers in Australia and the UK.

David is the author of Kings of the Street: Power, Community and Ritual in Renaissance Florence (Brepols, 2015), and has has written a dozen articles and chapters on early modern topics in Italian social history and historical storytelling with mobile media. He has edited Hidden Cities: Urban Space, Geolocated Apps, and Public History (Routledge, 2022) and Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions (Routledge, 2023).