Education
2000-2004: PhD in Contemporary History at University of Bologna, Italy. Supervision: Professor Gaetano Quagliariello and Eugenio Capozzi. Thesis title: Raymond Aron and gaullism, 1940-1958.
2004: “Prix Raymond Aron” from the Société des Amis de Raymond Aron for: 2004 Best Research on Raymond Aron.
2001-2003: Visiting Researcher at Ecole de Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
2000-2001: Tutor of Contemporary History at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.
June-December 1999: Research Assistant of professor Richard J. Samuels (M.I.T. Boston, USA) for Italian history related topics (19th and 20th century).
March 1999: Graduated in Political Science at the University of Bologna.
Award for the best curriculum studiorum in Political Science.
Academic Activities:
Since 2010: Assistant Professor at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy.
Since September 2011: Professor of Comparative History of European Political Systems (course shared with Professor Marc Lazar), First year Master Degree, University Luiss-Guido Carli, Rome.
September-October 2011: Visiting researcher to Département d’Histoire, Sciences-Po, Paris.
Mai 2010: Luiss visiting fellow to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan (France).
2010: Assistant teacher in Comparative History of European Political Systems with Professor Marc Lazar (First year Master Degree students), University Luiss-Guido Carli, Rome.
September 2008- June 2011: Assistant teacher in Comparative History of European Political Systems with Professor Giovanni Orsina and Professor Marc Lazar (First year Master Degree students), University Luiss-Guido Carli, Rome.
January 2006- December 2009: Research Fellow at the Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Socio-Politiche, Università Luiss-Guido Carli, Rome.
2008-2010: Coordinating the creation of an oral archive of former French deputies and senators (1958-1973) as part of a broader enquiry financed by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche and directed by Professor Bernard Lachaise (Bordeaux 3).
2005-2010: Tutor of Comparative History of European Political Systems at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University Luiss-Guido Carli, Rome.
From 2004: Lectures in PhD seminars at Luiss University, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Lucca, the University of Paris X.
From 2003: Member of the editorial staff of the journal “XXI Secolo”. Collaborator with other History reviews (“Ricerche di Storia politica”, “Vingtième siècle”, “Ricerche storiche”)
2002-2003: Teacher of Seminars on French History at the faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.
2000-2001: Tutor of Contemporary History at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.
June-December 1999: Research Assistant of Professor Richard J. Samuels (M.I.T. Boston, USA) for Italian history related topics (19th and 20th century).