Veronica West-Harling is a Research Associate of the History Faculty at the University Oxford and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Università Ca'Foscari in Venice. She has studied at the Paris IV-Sorbonne, Brasenose College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge. She began her professional career as a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford, where she won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, later becoming a lecturer in Durham and Wales and a Senior Lecturer at Northampton. In 2011, together with Chris Wickham, she received an AHRC grant for 3 years, of which 9 months were spent in Italy as a Visiting Fellow in Venice and at Roma La Sapienza. In 2015 she won a Marie Curie Fellowship, which supports her current role in Venice.