Cristiana Facchini

Cristiana Facchini is a Professor of History of Christianity and Religious Studies. She studied in Bologna and further specialized in Oxford, Turin, Jerusalem, and Paris.

Her research focuses extensively on the history and theories of religion, with particular attention to Christianity and Judaism. In 2015, she was one of the keynote speakers at the XXI IAHR (International Association for the History of Religions) World Congress, held in Erfurt.

Cristiana has been a research fellow at several prestigious institutions: Bernard and Audre Rapoport Fellow at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (2005–2006), Dorset Fellow at the Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies (2013–2014) in Oxford, and invited senior fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg of the University of Erfurt (2014–2015, 2019, 2021) and at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) in Jerusalem (2023). In addition, she has served as a visiting professor at the Universities of Bielefeld (2013) and Haifa (2018).