Martina Mampieri is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia under the supervision of Prof. Joshua Teplitsky and Prof. Matteo Al Kalak. She earned a double PhD in History and Jewish Studies from the University of Roma Tre and the University of Hamburg. She received fellowships from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Oxford, Harvard University, the University of Göttingen, the American Jewish Archives and the Rothschild Foundation among others. She is the author of Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th cent.), published by Brill in 2020, and several articles on Jewish cultural and religious history in the early modern and modern periods.. She is currently working on her second book, a biography of the historian and bibliophile Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960). At Penn, she is working on her new project titled BookSHUK: The International Market of Jewish Manuscripts and Books (1900-1948), which aims at reconstructing the paths of Italian Jewish manuscripts and early printed books between Europe, Israel, and the United States.