Matteo Battistini

Matteo Battistini

Personal Information

Born in Senigallia (AN), Italy, on 7 October 1979.

Resident in Bologna.

Work address:

• Department of Political and Social Sciences. School of Political Sciences. University of Bologna. Strada Maggiore 45, 40125 Bologna.
• Department of Political and Social Sciences. School of Political Sciences. University of Bologna. Via G. della Torre 5, Forli.

  E-mail: m.battistini@unibo.it

  Phone: 0543 374 108

  Website: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/m.battistini

  Current Position

• Associate Professor in History and Institutions of the United States (SPS/05), Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna.
• National Scientific Qualification for Full Professorship in the Competition Sector 14/B2 - STORIA DELLE RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI, DELLE SOCIETA' E DELLE ISTITUZIONI EXTRAEUROPEE, valid from 01/02/2023 until 01/02/2034.

  Institutional Activities and Academic Appointments

• Delegate for Public Engagement, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, 2021-2023.
• Deputy Coordinator of the Master's Degree Programme in Scienze Internazionali e Diplomatiche, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Forli Campus, 2024-present.

  Education

• 2004 - Four-year degree under the old system in “Scienze Politiche” at the University of Bologna, historical-political track with certified specialization in “Diritti umani e Intervento umanitario”. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude. Thesis in “Storia del Pensiero Politico Contemporaneo”, entitled “Gli individui al lavoro nel pensiero politico di Karl Marx. Rappresentanza e lavoro nel rompicapo della liberazione”. Supervisor: Prof. Sandro Mezzadra; co-supervisor: Prof.ssa Raffaella Gherardi. Degree awarded on 27/04/2004.
• 2008 - PhD in “Europa e Americhe: costituzioni, dottrine e istituzioni politiche”, Department of Politics, Institutions, History, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna. Coordinator: Prof.ssa Raffaella Gherardi. Research project on “Thomas Paine nella trasmissione atlantica della rivoluzione”. Supervisor: Prof. Tiziano Bonazzi. Evaluation: Excellent. Dissertation defended on 09/06/2008.

  Research Fellowships, Scholarships and Visiting Scholar Positions

• 2006 - Marco Polo Programme of the University of Bologna for the promotion of training and research abroad. Four-month scholarship for research at Columbia University, New York. Inviting Professor: Eric Foner.
• 2009 - Visiting Scholar (4 months), Department of History, Columbia University, New York, for research on the founding of the United States and the construction of the American state in the revolutionary era. Inviting Professor: Eric Foner.
• 2009-2012 - Junior Research Fellow 2009-2010, renewed as Senior Research Fellow 2011-2012, Department of Politics, Institutions, History, University of Bologna; project: La trasformazione “commerciale” della società negli Stati Uniti di primo Ottocento e la figura di Thomas Paine. Tutor: Prof. Tiziano Bonazzi.
• 2013-2014 - Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (March 2013-February 2014), project on Le scienze politiche e sociali e la costruzione della middle class negli Stati Uniti della prima metà del Novecento. Tutor: Prof.ssa Raffaella Baritono.
• 2012 - Visiting Scholar (1 month), Department of History, Columbia University, New York, for research on nationalism and internationalism in U.S. social sciences in the first half of the twentieth century. Inviting Professor: Eric Foner.
• 2013 - Research period (1 month) at Yale University Sterling Memorial Library - Manuscripts and Archives, on Harold D. Lasswell's intellectual and scientific production, propaganda activities and public communication.
• 2014-2015 - Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (April 2014-February 2015), project on Linguaggi e pratiche della delegittimazione politica negli Stati Uniti fra New Deal e Guerra fredda. Tutor: Prof. Fulvio Cammarano.
• Tamiment Cold War Center Travel Grants 2016-2017 - The grant was used in August 2017 for research on the crisis of the American middle class between the 1930s and 1940s, in relation to the internal debate within the CPUSA and its role in the unionization of white-collar labor.

  Participation in National Research Projects

• PRIN 2008 - Costruire l’internazionalismo: la riflessione e l’azione politica negli Stati Uniti fra New Deal e Guerra Fredda; National Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Ferdinando Fasce, University of Genoa; Head of the Bologna Research Unit: Prof.ssa Raffaella Baritono. Research on H.D. Lasswell and U.S. social sciences.
• PRIN 2010-2011 - Pratiche e Linguaggi della delegittimazione politica nell’Europa contemporanea; National Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Fulvio Cammarano, University of Bologna; Head of the Bologna Research Unit: Prof. Fulvio Cammarano. Research on electoral campaigns for the office of governor in the states of California and New York, 1896-1982.

  Teaching, Scientific and Editorial Activities

• 30-hour teaching module (2011-2012) in the course Storia e Istituzioni dell’America del Nord, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Relazioni Internazionali, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna. Course holder: Prof.ssa Raffaella Baritono.
• 30-hour teaching module (2012-2013) in the course Storia e Istituzioni dell’America del Nord, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Relazioni Internazionali, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna. Course holder: Prof.ssa Raffaella Baritono.
• 20-hour teaching module (2014-2015) in the course Storia degli Stati Uniti, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Scienze Internazionali e Diplomatiche, School of Political Sciences, Forli Campus. Course holder: Prof.ssa Raffaella Baritono.
• Course teaching (2014-) in Relazioni Internazionali degli Stati Uniti, Master's Degree Programme in Scienze Internazionali e Diplomatiche, School of Political Sciences, Forli Campus.
• Course teaching (2015-) in Storia degli Stati Uniti, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Scienze Internazionali e Diplomatiche, School of Political Sciences, Forli Campus.
• Lectures at the CISPEA Summer School (Centro interuniversitario di Storia e Politica Euro-Americana), Director Prof. Tiziano Bonazzi:
• La costruzione della middle class nel pensiero sociale e politico americano, IX Summer School, June 2013: “Dagli USA al mondo: Centralità e declino della middle class nella storia e nella riflessione sociopolitica”.
• La crisi della classe media americana, XII Summer School, July 2016: “Dopo il secolo americano?”.
• Tutor at the CISPEA Summer School (Centro interuniversitario di Storia e Politica Euro-Americana), Director Prof. Tiziano Bonazzi:
• III Summer School, June 2007: “Americanismo e antiamericanismo: analisi storica ed uso pubblico”.
• VI Summer School, June 2010: “La cittadinanza negli Stati Uniti d'America”.
• VII Summer School, June 2011: “Stati Uniti, Italia, Germania e le sfide dell'unità nazionale, 1861-1901”.
• VIII Summer School, June 2012: “Età dorate: Economica, Politica e Società negli Stati Uniti del 1880-1901 e 1980-2001”.
• X Summer School, June 2014: “We the people: potere e libertà negli Stati Uniti contemporanei”.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of EEASA (2009-2010) - European Early American Studies Association (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/eeasa/committee/previous/).
• Coordinator of the Editorial Office (2012-2014) of the journal “Ricerche di Storia Politica”, il Mulino: www.ricerchedistoriapolitica.it
• Member of the Scientific Committee that in 2014 and 2015 organized the young Americanists seminar AISNA Graduates on the occasion of the Seminario di Studi Americani promoted by AISNA and the Centro Studi Americani (CSA) in Rome.
• Member of the Editorial Board (2015-) of the journal “Ricerche di Storia Politica”, il Mulino: www.ricerchedistoriapolitica.it
• Member of the Editorial Board and Journal Manager (2018-2024) of the online journal USAbroad. Journal of American History and Politics https://usabroad.unibo.it
• Member of the Scientific Committee of CISPEA (Centro Interunviersitario di Storia e Politica Euro-Americana): https://www.cispea.it
• Member of AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani).
• Member of SISSCO (Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea).
• Member of SISI (Società Italiana di Storia Internazionale).
• Co-director of the “Transnazionale” series, Meltemi Editore:
  https://www.meltemieditore.it/collana/transnazionale/

  National Conferences, Congresses and Seminars

• 10 October 2006. Presentation: “Why should we imitate them? Thomas Paine e la storiografia della Rivoluzione americana”. Seminario della Ricerca, Department of Politics, Institutions, History, University of Bologna.
• 6-7-8 October 2008. Presentation: “Rivoluzione politica e trasformazione sociale nella formazione degli Stati Uniti di primo Ottocento”. Conferenza giovani americanisti CISPEA (Centro Interuniversitario di Storia e Politica Euro-Americana), Universita del Piemonte orientale, Vercelli-Turin.
• 3-4 May 2010. Presentation: “L’America in Europa? Thomas Paine e il mondo atlantico nell'epoca delle rivoluzioni democratiche”, at the conference Storia atlantica e Storia transatlantica in modernistica e contemporaneistica, Turin, Istituto Einaudi, organized by the Department of History of the University of Turin and the Department of Humanities of the Universita del Piemonte Orientale.
• 28 April 2012. Presentation: “Una repubblica commerciale senza Stato? Gli Stati Uniti all’alba della repubblica”, in the seminar series L’importanza di essere Stato organized by Raffaella Baritono and Maurizio Ricciardi at the Department of Politics, Institutions, History, University of Bologna.
• 5-6 June 2015. Presentation: “Fetishization of the Middle Class: declino della classe media e crisi del capitalismo globale nell'odierno dibattito pubblico statunitense”, in the panel presented by Daniele Pompejano and chaired by Elisabetta Vezzosi, entitled: Usa-America Latina tra Financial Consensus e nuove partnership. Quarto Convegno nazionale SISI (Società Italiana di Storia Internazionale) Continuità e discontinuità nell'evoluzione del sistema internazionale dagli anni ‘70 ad oggi, Department of Political, Legal and International Studies, University of Padua.
• 14-16 September 2015. Presentation: “Rivoluzione e democrazia tra Francia e Inghilterra: l’eredità intellettuale di Thomas Paine”, in the panel Strategia di sopravvivenza nell’età della restaurazione (1815-1848), coordinated by Paola Magnarelli, discussant: Antonino De Francesco. VIII Cantieri di Storia SISSCO, Universita degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo.
• 7-8 October 2016. Presentation: “La costruzione dello Stato dentro e oltre la Rivoluzione americana. Periodi e categorie di analisi”, at the conference Tematiche, caratteristiche e metodologie delle storie di area in Italia: un confronto, University of Pavia.
• 31 May 2017. Presentation: “L’ordine della middle class: le origini europee della classe media americana fra storia e scienze sociali”, in the seminar series Strategie dell’ordine: processi, fratture, soggetti organized by Raffaella Baritono and Maurizio Ricciardi at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna.
• 11 May 2018. Paper: “Costruzione ideologica della middle class e legittimazione politica dello Stato fra New Deal e anni Cinquanta”. Conference: “Esportare la Modernità. Processi di interazione tra Americhe ed Europa”, University of Bergamo.
• Paper: “Democrazia e costituzionalismo: origini e tensioni nelle rivoluzioni atlantiche”. SISSCO social conference: Democrazia/democrazie: costruzioni e crisi in una prospettiva di storia globale (secoli XVIII-XXI), 4/7/14/15 June 2021.
• Paper: “La guerra civile del capitale: new (middle) class e neo-conservatorismo”. Convegno Progetto Alma Idea 2022: Democrazia e liberalismo nella crisi americana, 15 December 2023, University of Bologna, Forli Campus.

  International Conferences, Congresses and Seminars

• 20 October 2008. Paper: “Paine after Paine. The changing meaning of the Democratic Language of the Revolution”. International symposium Thomas Paine and American Civil Liberties, organized by Marco Sioli, Faculty of Political Science, Universita statale di Milano.
• 20-21 March 2009. Paper: “Thomas Paine and the Atlantic Revolution. The civilization of commerce and the building of a national society”. Conference: The French American Atlantic in the Age of Revolutions, 1763-1815, Paris - École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Université Paris 8.
• 16-19 July 2009. Paper: “Thomas Paine, the Legacy of the Revolution and the Transition to Capitalism in the Early Republic”. Annual Conference, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Springfield, Ill.
• 24-26 September 2009. Paper: “Let Trade be as Free as Air: The Liberal American Revolution and the Early State-Building”. XX AISNA International Conference Translating America. The Circulation of Narratives, Commodities, and Ideas between Italy, Europe and the United States, University of Turin.
• 16-17 June 2010. Participation in the seminar Connections, Convergences and Disjuncture: Venice Workshop, University of Warwick, co-partner: Institute of Historical Research, London.
• 10-11 May 2012. Paper: “Harold Lasswell and the problem of world order: Politics, economics and symbols on a national and global scale”. International Conference, Beyond the Nation. Pushing the Boundaries of U.S. History from a Transatlantic Perspective, Genoa, concluding conference of PRIN 2008 - Costruire l’internazionalismo: la riflessione e l’azione politica negli Stati Uniti fra New Deal e Guerra Fredda. National Scientific Coordinator: Ferdinando Fasce, University of Genoa. Head of the Bologna Research Unit: Raffaella Baritono.
• 19-21 September 2013. Coordinator (with Cristina Bon, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) of the panel “The Universalism of American Freedom and its Boundaries: How America recasts Freedom between World War II and the Cold War”, XXII International AISNA Conference, Discourses of Emancipation and the Boundaries of Freedom, University of Trieste, organized by Elisabetta Vezzosi and Leonardo Buonomo. Participants in the workshop included Ferdinando Fasce (University of Genoa), Salvatore Proietti (University of Calabria), Jelena Sesnic (University of Zagreb), Michele Cento (University of Bologna) and Matteo Battistini himself with a paper entitled: “We may be caught in the trap of a garrison state: Harold Lasswell, the American Freedom and the building of the National Security State”.
• 2-3 October 2013. Paper: “Insurrection, Bank and Contracts: how Society shaped the Principles of the Constitution at the eve of the national Convention (1785-1786)”. International Seminar Rebellion, Resistance and Revolution between the Old and the New World: Discourses and Political Languages, organized by Angela De Benedictis, Department of History, Cultures and Civilizations, University of Bologna. Participants included, among others: Pierre Serna (Paris, Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution française); Antonino De Francesco (Universita degli Studi di Milano); Karl Härter (Max-Planck Institut für europäischen Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main); John Donoghue (Loyola University Chicago).
• 29-30 November 2013. Paper: “Atlantic Fragments of Thomas Paine: Democratic Language and its Class Meaning in Paine's Early Nineteenth Century Legacy on both the English and American Shores of the Ocean”. International Conference Citizen of the World: The Uses and Abuses of Thomas Paine, Manchester Metropolitan University.
• 24-26 September 2015. Paper: “The Transatlantic Making of the American Middle Class: The Euro-American Circulation of Scientific and Political Literature at the Origins of an Essential Category of the American Century”. In the panel: The “Atlantic Harbor”: Intellectual Crossings between America and Europe in the Age of Industrial Capitalism (1870s-1920s), coordinated by Michele Cento and Lorenzo Costaguta.
• 17 February 2018. Paper: “Middle Class as Historical Category of Legitimation of the American State: Its Rise and Fall”. International Symposium: The State of the State: What is American Political History Now? Organized by HOTCUS (Historians of the Twentieth Century United States) at the University of Nottingham, UK.
• Participation in the meeting of the working group for the publication of a new edition of the complete works of Thomas Paine on the occasion of the conference Revolutionary Texts in a Digital Age: Thomas Paine’s Publishing Networks, Past and Present, organized by IONA College and Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, New Rochelle, New York, 11-13 October 2018.
• 28 September 2019. Paper: “The Lost Middle Class of Progressivism: Capital, Labor and Public Turmoil in Early Twentieth-Century America”, in the panel Walls and Breaches: Gender, Race and Class within American Society and Politics in the 19th and 20th century, coordinated by Angela Santese. 25th AISNA Biennial Conference Gate(d)Ways. Enclosures, Breaches and Mobilities Across U.S. Boundaries and Beyond, Ragusa, University of Catania.
• Paper: “Karl Marx and the American Civil War: Class and Race in the Struggle for Emancipation”, in the panel Recognizing Fractures before and after the Civil War: Gender, Race and Class in the Making of the Global America, coordinators: Matteo Battistini and Serena Mocci, 26th AISNA Biennial Conference, 23-25 September 2021, Recognition across Time, Space and Textuality in the US and Beyond, Department of Human Sciences, University of L’Aquila, on 24-09-2021.
• Paper: “Between Myth and Reality: The Middle Class in the American Century and Beyond”. Seminar on US History, Literary and Culture, Centro Studi Americani, Rome, May 2-4, 2023.
• Book Presentation: Middle Class. An Intellectual History through Social Sciences. An American Fetish from its Origins to Globalization in the Seminar “Democratie et capitalisme aux Etats-Unis”, at EHESS, Paris, organized by Nicolas Barreyre, May 17, 2023.
• Paper: “In questo momento sono alle prese con il mio ponte politico”, Thomas Paine tra Rivoluzione americana e Rivoluzione francese. At the Italo-French conference La Rivoluzione americana degli europei/La Revolution Americaine des Europeens, May 25-26, 2023, University of Turin.
• Paper: “The Vulnerabilities of Consensus: CLR James, the Antagonism against Work and the Stalemate of American Capitalism”, at the 27th Biennal Conference Vulnerabilities: Weaknesses, Threats, Resilience in the USA and in Global Perspective, University of Perugia, FISSUF Department - CRISU, September 21-23, 2023, Narni.

  Monographs and Edited Volumes

• with Marco Sioli (eds.), L’età di Thomas Paine. Dal senso comune alle libertà civili americane, Milan, Franco Angeli, 2011.
• Una Rivoluzione per lo Stato: Thomas Paine e la Rivoluzione americana nel mondo atlantico, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012.
• with Maurizio Ricciardi and Eleonora Cappuccilli (eds.), Global Marx. Storia e critica del movimento sociale nel mercato mondiale, Milan, Meltemi, 2020; published in English by Brill in 2022 with the title: Global Marx. History and Social Movement in the World Market.
• Storia di un feticcio. La classe media americana dalle origini alla globalizzazione, Milan, Mimesis, 2020; published in English by Brill in 2022 with the title: Middle Class. An Intellectual History through Social Sciences. An American Fetish from its Origins to Globalization.
• (ed.) C.L.R. James, La civiltà americana. Un manifesto politico per gli Stati Uniti e il mondo, translation by Marco Meliti, Milan, Meltemi, 2026.

  Essays in Journals and Volumes

• “…lo si costringerà ad essere libero”. Appunti marxiani sulla Rivoluzione francese, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 30/2004, pp. 3-28, http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/2835
• Radical Revisions: Thomas Skidmore reads Thomas Paine in 1829 New York, in http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-04/forum/battistini.shtml
• L’epoca di Paine. Società e Politica nella rivoluzione atlantica, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 39/2008, pp. 110-123, http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/2751
• The Transatlantic Republican. Thomas Paine e la democrazia nel mondo atlantico, in “Contemporanea”, 4/2009, pp. 625-650.
• Let the Trade be as Free as Air. The Liberal American Revolution and the early State-Building, in Translating America, edited by Marina Camboni, Andrea Carosso, Sonia Di Loreto and Marco Mariano, Bern, Lang, 2011, pp. 285-300.
• Paine dopo Paine: Thomas Skidmore e l’eredità della Rivoluzione americana nella New York del 1829, in Matteo Battistini and Marco Sioli (eds.), L’età di Thomas Paine. Dal senso comune alle libertà civili americane, Milan, Franco Angeli, 2011, pp. 217-230.
• Un mondo in disordine: le diverse storie dell'Atlantico, in “Ricerche di Storia Politica”, 2/2012, pp. 173-188.
• 11 settembre: un tornante della storia?, in Stefano Cavazza and Paolo Pombeni (eds.), Introduzione alla Storia Contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012, pp. 438-449.
• with Maurizio Griffo, Un racconto di due Paine, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 24/2012, pp. 49-68, http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/3201
• Living in Transition in the Atlantic World: Democratic Revolution and Commercial Society in the Political Writings of Thomas Paine, in “Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos”, Coloquios, online 27 June 2012, http://nuevomundo.revues.org/63485
• Harold Lasswell, the “problem of World Order”, and the Historic Mission of the American middle class, in Ferdinando Fasce, Maurizio Vaudagna and Raffaella Baritono, Beyond the Nation: Pushing the Boundaries of U.S. History from a Transatlantic Perspective, Turin, Otto, 2013, pp. 225-254.
• Introduzione al numero monografico. Formazione e trasformazione dello Stato-nazione nel quadro atlantico e globale, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 48/2013, pp. 5-11, http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/3892
• A National Blessing: debito e credito pubblico nella fondazione atlantica degli Stati Uniti d'America, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 48/2013, pp. 13-31, http://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/3888
• Insurrections, Bank and Private Contracts: How Society shaped the Constitutional Order during the American Revolution, in “Storicamente”, 33/2014, pp. 1-15, http://storicamente.org/battistini_rebellion
• Il declino della classe media americana, “il Mulino”, 3/2015, pp. 564-573.
• Middle Class, Classe Moyenne, Mittelstand: History and Social Sciences in the Atlantic World, in Maurizio Vaudagna (ed.), Modern European-American Relations in the Transatlantic Space, Turin, Otto, 2015, pp. 123-148.
• “We may be caught in the trap of a garrison state”: Harold D. Lasswell, the American Middle Class and the Political Legitimacy of the National Security State, in Elisabetta Vezzosi, Leonardo Buonomo (eds.), Discourses of Emancipation and the Boundaries of Freedom: Selected Papers from the 22nd AISNA Biennial International Conference, Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2015, pp. 219-230.
• M. Battistini, The Transatlantic Making of the American Middle Class: The Origins of an Essential Category of the American Century, in Vincenzo Bavaro, Gianna Fusco, Serena Fusco, Donatella Izzo, Harbor, Flows and Migrations of Peoples, Cultures and Ideas: The USA in/and the World, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 199-216.
• “Revolutions are the Order of the Day”: Atlantic Fragments of Thomas Paine, c. 1819-1832, in Sam Edwards, Marcus Morris (eds.), The Legacy of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World, London, Routledge, 2017, pp. 87-106.
• Il feticcio middle-class e le scienze sociali fra ordine liberale neoliberale negli Stati Uniti, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 57/2017, pp. 161-193, https://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/7554
• L’instabile ordine della politica middle-class: le campagne elettorali di New York e California, in Fulvio Cammarano, Stefano Cavazza (eds.), La delegittimazione politica nell’età contemporanea 3. Conflitto politico e propaganda elettorale in Europa e negli Stati Uniti (1861-1989), Rome, Viella, 2018, pp. 203-223.
• La New Class del neoconservatorismo e la de/legittimazione del capitalismo americano, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 61/2019, pp. 57-77, https://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/10188
• L’introvabile middle class: la ricerca dell’ordine del progressismo americano, in Raffaella Baritono and Maurizio Ricciardi, Strategie dell’ordine: categorie, fratture e soggetti, Quaderno di Scienza & Politica, n. 8, 2020, pp. 187-206: http://amsacta.unibo.it/6332/1/Quad%208%20ORDINE%20DEF-1.pdf
• Tra schiavitù e free labor: Marx, la guerra civile americana e l’emancipazione come questione globale, in Matteo Battistini, Maurizio Ricciardi, Eleonora Cappuccilli (eds.), Global Marx. Storia e critica dei movimenti sociali nel mercato mondiale, Milan, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 293-314.
• (with Benedetta Calandra) Introduzione al numero monografico: I nodi della modernità Stati Uniti e America Latina tra New Deal e Guerra Fredda, in “Ricerche di Storia Politica”, 1/2021, pp. 1-6.
• Middle-Class Revolution. La classe media americana come categoria ideologica della teoria della modernizzazione, in “Ricerche di Storia Politica”, 1/2021, pp. 7-16.
• La statistica della legittimazione e il demiurgo della classe media nelle scienze sociali fra Germania e Stati Uniti. In: Monica Cioli, Maurizio Ricciardi (eds.), Tra melancolia e disciplina. Per una storia costituzionale delle dottrine politiche Festschrift für Pierangelo Schiera, 2021, Quaderno N. 13, pp. 263-278, Bologna: Scienza & Politica.
• Karl Marx and the Global History of the Civil War: The Slave Movement, Working-Class Struggle, and the American State within the World Market, in “International Labor and Working-Class History”, vol. 100, 2021, pp. 158-185.
• Un progetto in movimento: il capitale in azione nella nuova storia (politica) del capitalismo americano, in “Ricerche di Storia Politica”, 3 (2022), pp. 279-294.
• (ed.) with Paola Rudan, For bell hooks: “White-Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy” and “Feminism is for Everybody” in U.S. History and Politics, in “USAbroad - Journal of American History and Politics”, 6 (2023), pp. 1-4, https://usabroad.unibo.it/article/view/16500
• The New Class of Neoconservatism and the De/legitimization of American Capitalism, in “Crisis and Critique”, 1 (2023), pp. 9-29, https://www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/media/2023-05-18/cc-101-complete-issue.pdf
• Una «nuova società arriverà»: C.L.R. James nella civilizzazione americana, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 36/2024, pp. 91-114, https://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/21151
• Between Myth and Reality: The Middle Class in the American Century and Beyond, in G. Nocera, S. Vellucci, D. Fiorentino, Self-Evidenth Truths, Post-Truths, and the American Myth, Rome, Agorà & Co., 2024, pp. 1-20.
• Un conflitto irreprimibile. Stato, capitalismo e lavoro negli Stati Uniti, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 37/2025, pp. 5-9, https://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/24177
• Il New Deal come State Capitalism: lo Stato del Labor e la libertà del e dal capitale, in “Scienza & Politica. Per una storia delle dottrine”, 37/2025, pp. 43-60, https://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/24057
• A Revolution in the State of Civilization: democrazia e società commerciale nel mondo atlantico di Thomas Paine, in “GIORNALE DI STORIA COSTITUZIONALE”, 2025, 49, pp. 15-29, http://www.storiacostituzionale.it/doc_49/Battistini_GSC_49_0525.pdf
• Only connect: the political manifesto of C.L.R. James for the US and the world, in “RACE & CLASS”, 2026, 67, pp. 65-84.