After graduating at the University of Florence (110/110 cum
laude), I earned a master in International Affairs at the Johns
Hopkins University (A-) and PHD in Historia et Humanitate at
the European University Institute (1994). I have worked since then
as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Economics in Forlì
and Rimini, won a two-year research contract at the Business
History Unit of the London School of Economics and a post-doctoral
fellowship at the Faculty of Economics in Bologna. I'm associate professor of Economic History since 2014 and currently vice-president of the Scientific Committee
of the Europe Direct/Punto Europa in Forlì. In August 2020 I won a EU Jean Monnet Project and in 2016 a
EU Jean Monnet Chair to conduct research on the economic history of migration. I also won Almaidea and FARB financed by the University of Bologna. My current research interests include European economic integration issues, a study on Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs, a research on the effects of decolonization on Italian workers in Tunisia and a research on the aeronautical industry (with particular attention to the Caproni group).
