Giovanni Orsina is Director of the LUISS Master in European Studies. He is associate professor of Contemporary History at LUISS-Guido Carli, where he teaches History of Political Parties, Comparative History of European Political Systems and History of Journalism. He is Scientific Director of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Rome, and a leading writer for the newspaper «il Mattino», Naples.
He got his Ph.D. in History at the University of Roma Tre.
He taught Contemporary History in the Universities of Bologna, L’Aquila and Roma La Sapienza. He was Italian visting fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, in the year 1997-98; visiting professor at the Institute d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, in the year 2004; and at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Cachan, in the year 2006.
He has written extensively in the fields of Italian political history of the Twentieth Century and English history and historiography.
Among his publications:
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Senza Chiesa né classe. Il partito radicale nell’età giolittiana, Rome, 1998;
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edited (with G. Quagliariello), La formazione della classe politica in Europa, 1945-1956, Manduria-Bari-Rome, 2000 and La crisi del sistema politico italiano e il Sessantotto. Una ricerca di storia orale, Soveria Mannelli, 2005;
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Etudiants universitaires et politique en Italie, 1945-1968, «Parlement(s). Histoire et Politique», 2007;
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Quando l’Antifascismo sconfisse l’antifascismo. Interpretazioni della resistenza nell’alta cultura antifascista italiana (1955-65), «Ventunesimo secolo», 2005;
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The United States according to the Italian Communist Press (1945-53), «Telos», 2004 (with Elena Aga Rossi);
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Il dito e la luna. Politica, cultura e società nella storiografia inglese degli anni Novanta, in G. Orsina (ed.), Fare storia politica, Soveria Mannelli, 2000;
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L’Ottocento politico inglese nella storiografia di fine Novecento, «Ricerche di storia politica», 1999.
He is presently working on a re-interpretation of the Italian political system in the 1950s and 1960s in L’alternativa liberale. Giovanni Malagodi e la politica italiana.