Maria Teresa Guerrini got her degree in Literature and
Philosophy in 1998. She spent two years working on a
project about the presence of scholars and teachers at the
University of Bologna in the early modern age. She expanded that
same topic during her PhD studies in Modern and Contemporary
History at the University of Cagliari. She gained her degree
in 2004. Her final dissertation lead to the publication of a
catalogue about the doctors in law who graduated from the
University of Bologna during the early modern age. It also set the
path for other researches on the careers of all the doctors in law
born in Bologna who got their degree at the Alma
Mater.
This topic has been dr. Guerrini's main focus during her four
year fellowship in the Department of History at the University of
Bologna. Her project was financed with a post-doctoral grant during
her fifth year.
Since December 2008 dr. Guerrini worked as research at the
Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione at the University of Bologna
where she taught History of cultural exchanges, Early
modern History, and also teaches History of colonial
expansion and migration. At the present she works on DiSCi
(Dipartimento di storia culture civiltà)
During her PhD studies, dr. Guerrini narrowed the focus of her
research on a secondary subject: the mobility of students in
Europe. Her interdisciplinary approach to this topic is
particularly relevant since she wanted to connect the study of
documents left in Bologna by young students during their
peregrination academica, with the study of travel's diaries,
letters and libri amicorum written during these experiences.
Inevitably, history and literature merged into her research.
Actually she directs the MEUS (Museo europeo degli studenti into SMA - Sistema Museale d'Ateneo of the University of Bologna).
An international network composed of several Italian
universities, financed by the FIRB, gave birth to the ASFE database
in which information about teachers' and students' movements
through several Italian and European Universities in the Modern Age
are now collected.
Dr. Guerrini has been working on this project since the very
beginning. She has been collecting material, putting data and
information into the database. The strong collaboration with CISUI
(Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Italian Universities)
brought to the creation of network of contacts with members of many
European groups working on this same topics: in Belgium and Holland
(FASTI), in Germany (RAG) and in France (Chripa and Repertorium
Academicum Pictaviense), and in Italy (Maestri e scolari a Siena e
Perugia tra il 1250 e il 1500). Dr Guerrini attended meeting to
discussed the appropriate method to manage and organize the
databases containing the information about the mobility of students
(Heloise groups). Dr. Guerrini participated with her researches on lawyer carriers in Bologna during the early modern period.
The strong collaboration with important reviews focusing on her
research topic, such as “History of Universities” and “Annali di
storia delle università italiane”, and her active participation to
the online review “Storicamente”, help Dr. Guerrini to keep her to
focus on the historical debates she is interested in.
