About

I am Associate Professor in Contemporary History at Alma Mater Studiorum, the University of Bologna.

I hold a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Cambridge, M.St in Global and Imperial History from the University of Oxford, UK, and BA (summa cum laude) in Modern History from the University of Bologna, Italy.

Before joining the University of Bologna I was Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Modern History at City, University of London. Previously, I was Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Teaching Associate at the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge.

I held visiting studentships and fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Chicago, Sciences Po, Paris and LUISS, Rome.

My research examines the twentieth century ideas about world order, globalism and migration.

I’ve published on geopolitics, cosmopolitanism, federalism and democracy theory in Britain, Europe and the United States. I am also interested in the relationship between intellectual history and international theory. Recently, I’ve been writing on Italian international and geopolitical thought in the  the twentieth century.