2008 Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography Directed by Marc Smith, Ecole des Chartes, Paris
2006 Mellon Summer Institute in French Paleography Directed by Bernard Barbiche, Ecole des Chartes, Paris
2005 Mellon Summer Institute in Italian Paleography Directed by Armando Petrucci, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and Franca Petrucci Nardelli, University of Pisa
2002 Summer Institute in the Spanish and Hispanic-American Archival Sciences Directed by Consuelo Varela, Senior Researcher, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla
2001 Summer Institute in the Italian Archival Sciences Directed by Armando Petrucci, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and Franca Petrucci Nardelli, University of Pisa