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Angela Santese

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Academic discipline: SPS/05 American History and Institutions

Curriculum vitae

Current position(s)

Adjunct Professor of History of European Integration - School of Political Sciences-University of Bologna

Teaching Assistant of Contemporary History - School of Political Sciences-University of Bologna

Previous position

27/07/2015 – 31/08/2017 Postdoctoral research fellow

Department of Political and Social Sciences

University of Bologna

Education

PhD in Contemporary History (May 2014) – Department of Politics, Institutions and History – University of Bologna. Dissertation: “Between pacifism and environmentalism: the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Movement and the Reagan administration”

MA in International and Diplomatic Studies, full marks with honors (December 2009) – School of Political Sciences –University of Bologna.

BA in International and Diplomatic Studies, full marks with honors (July 2007) – School of Political Sciences –University of Bologna.

Fellowships, grants and visiting

2017 – SISSCO Prize awarded by Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History for the best 2016 research monograph.

2017 – Vibeke Sorensen Grants for visiting scholars by the Historical Archives of the European Union

2017 – Travel grant awarded by the AISNA (the American Studies Association of Italy) for the 24th biennial conference

2015 – Travel grant awarded by Center for the United States and the Cold War (Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives-New York University)

2014 – Travel grant awarded by the AISNA (the American Studies Association of Italy) for the AISNA Graduate Forum

2012 – Scholarship from the Department of Politics, Institutions, History- University of Bologna for archival research at the NARA, College Park, and the Reagan Library, Simi Valley.

2011 – Three-year scholarship from the Italian Government for Doctorate Program.

2009 – Fellowship awarded by the University of Bologna, Forlì campus, for dissertation research in the United States (Mike Mansfield Archive, Mike Mansfield Library, Missoula).

Teaching activities

a.a. 2016/2017 – Adjunct professor of History of European Integration – School of Political Sciences –University of Bologna.

a.a. 2016/2017 – Teaching assistant of Contemporary History – BA in International and Diplomatic Studies - School of Political Sciences – University of Bologna.

a.a. 2015/2016 – Adjunct professor of History of European Integration – School of Political Sciences –University of Bologna.

a.a. 2015/2016 – Teaching assistant of Contemporary History – BA in International and Diplomatic Studies - School of Political Sciences – University of Bologna.

2014/2015 – Teaching assistant of Contemporary History – BA in Sociology - School of Political Sciences – University of Bologna.

a.a. 2014/2015 – Teaching assistant of Contemporary History – BA in International and Diplomatic Studies - School of Political Sciences – University of Bologna.

a.a. 2013/2014 – Teaching assistant of Contemporary History – BA in Sociology - School of Political Sciences – University of Bologna.

a.a. 2013/2014 – Teaching assistant of Contemporary History – BA in International and Diplomatic Studies - School of Political Sciences – University of Bologna.

a.a. 2012/2013 – Teaching assistant of Contemporary History – BA in International and Diplomatic Studies - School of Political Sciences – University of Bologna.

Memberships

Member of Editorial Board of USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics (from January 2017)

Member of the scientific committee of the “Giovani in Storia” award (young historians award) (from January 2016)

Member of the Editorial Office of the journal “Ricerche di Storia Politica” (from 2012) (from October 2017 coordinator of the Editorial Office)

Member of the Editorial Board of “C’era una volta l’America”- Newsletter of CISPEA-Summer School Network (Interuniversity Center of Euro-American History and Politics) (from 2011)

Member of SISSCO-Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History) (from 2014)

Research Expeditions

2015 - Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives-New York University, New York, NY.

2013 - Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives-New York University.

2012 - Junior Visiting Scholar – History and Public Policy Program. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar (Washington, DC) – Inviting professor: Christian Osterman.

2009 - Mike Mansfield Library, Missoula, Montana.

Conferences

2017 - "'Describing the nuclear Armageddon: the atomic menace in the U.S. popular culture of the 1980s"', 24th AISNA Biennial Conference, Milano, 29 settembre 2017.

2016 – “Fighting for Nuclear Disarmament: American and European Anti-nuclear activism in the 1980s”, Transatlantic Studies Association - 15th Annual Conference, 4 July 2016, Plymouth (UK).

2016 – “The battle for atomic disarmament: American and European anti-nuclear Activism in the 1980s”, Quinto Convegno Nazionale SISI (Annual Conference of the Italian Society for the Study of International History), 4 June 2016, Forlì (Italy).

2015 – “The rise of environmentalist movements and the debate on alternative sources of energy during the oil crisis” – Countershock/Counterrevolution. Energy and Politics in the 1980s, 7 November 2016, Venice (Italy).

2014 – “The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign: A Domestic Challenge to Foreign Policy?” – SHAFR Annual Meeting, 20 June 2014, Lexington (Kentucky, USA).

2014 – PhD Dissertation’s presentation – AISNA Graduate Forum (American Studies Association of Italy), Rome, 28 May 2014, Rome (Italy).

2013 – “Between Pacifism and Environmentalism: The Anti-Nuclear Movement During Reagan’s Presidency” - European Summer School on Cold War History, 6 September 2013, Trento (Italy).

2012 – “Between Pacifism and Environmentalism: the transnational movement against nuclear weapons during Regan’s Presidency” – Political Cultures and Society in Transnational Perspective, 19 November 2012, Bologna (Italy).

Publications

A. Santese (2016): Ronald Reagan, the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and the Nuclear scare of the 1980s, in «The International History Review», 2017, 39, pp. 496-520, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2016.1220403 [peer-review article]

A. Santese, La pace atomica. Ronald Reagan e il movimento antinucleare (1979-1987), Firenze, Le Monnier, 2016, (The Atomic Peace. Ronald Reagan and the Antinuclear Movement (1979-1987)). [research monograph]

A. Santese, Ambientalismo, pacifismo e Guerra Fredda: il nuovo antinuclearismo nella storiografia statunitense, in «Ricerche di Storia Politica», 2017, 20, pp. 43-56.(Environmentalism, pacifism and the Cold War: the new antinuclearism in the U.S. historiography) [peer-review article]

A. Santese, La presidenza Obama: primi tentativi di valutazione, in «Contemporanea», 1/2017, pp. 161-173 (The Obama Presidency: a first attempt of evaluation) [peer-review article]

A. Santese, The rise of environmentalist movements and the debate on alternative sources of energy during the oil crisis in the United States, forthcoming I.B. Tauris 2017. [book chapter]