Curriculum Vitae
Researcher fellow and then associate professor at the
University of Bologna.
Author of numerous studies on the history of political and
cultural opposition to fascism; Women and gender history; History
of fascism and Italian Social Repubblic, 1943-1945; History of war;
History of war experience; History of violence in war. Here we
remind Brigate nere. Mussolini e la militarizzazione del Partito
fascista repubblicano, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999; (ed.)
Il difficile rientro Il ritorno dei docenti ebrei
nell'università del dopoguerra (Bologna, Clueb, 2004);
Guerra Resistenza Politica: Storie di donne (Reggio Emilia,
Aliberti Editore, Istituto “Alcide Cervi” and Società italiana
delle storiche, 2006) and, with L. Casali, La politica del
terrore. Stragi e violenze naziste e fasciste in Emilia Romagna
(Napoli, L'ancora del mediterraneo, 2008).
Member of the seminar on Women history at the University of
Bologna and editor, with M. Salvati, of the volumes La sfera
pubblica femminile (1992) and Donne e spazio nel processo di
modernizzazione(1995).
Member of the scientific board in the research on "Donne,
guerra e Resistenza" and one of the founders of the “Archivio della
memoria delle donne” (Department of History, University of
Bologna);
Member of the scientific board of “Società italiana delle
storiche” (1997-2001);
Member of the scientific board of “Istituto A. Cervi ";
Member of the editorial board of "Genesis", journal by
“Società italiana delle storiche”;
Member of the scientific board of the contemporary history
journal "Storia e problemi contemporanei";
Director of the Master in Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities
Policies (2003-2004);
Scientific co-ordinator of the national conference “Guerra
Resistenza Politica. Storie di donne” (Reggio Emilia, Italy, 7-9
October 2004), organized with Istituto "A. Cervi" and
“Società italiana delle storiche”. Editor of Guerra Resistenza
Politica. Storie di donne (2006).
Scientific co-ordinator (with L. Casali) of the research on the
nazi massacres in Emilia Romagna. Editor with L. Casali of La
politica del terrore. Stragi e violenze naziste e fasciste in
Emilia Romagna (2008).
Has been invited to many national and international seminars and
congresses.
Has contributed to numerous volumes on the issues of her
research.
Several of her numerous students have seen published all or
parts of their degree or ph degree thesis.
In 2011 she received the National Award of the Resistance to her
teaching and research.