A Masters by research candidate at the University of Melbourne, Jennifer’s project explored the social and religious place of pizzochere (uncloistered religious women) in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice. Utilizing material in the Archivio di Stato, Venice, the Archivio Storico del Patriarcato and the Biblioteca Correr, Jennifer’s is the first scholarly analysis of Venetian pizzochere. Her research explores the visibility of these women in the city, where and how they lived their lives and how and why these women were enmeshed with, or paralleled, other religious and state networks and institutions.