Full Professor
Teaching
Africa in International Political History; Development issues in the Global South
University background
Graduated in Political Science, Department of Politics and
History, University of Bologna, with distinction, 1987;
Diploma in International Co-operation and Development Policies
in Developing Countries, University of Bologna, Faculty of
Political Science, December 1988
Country Experience
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Angola, Uganda, Malawi
Participation to research projects
2002-4: Department Pluriannual Research Programme "Consenso e
legittimazione nella trasformazione dei regimi politici"
2003-4 Project MIUR-PRIN: "La costruzione e la crisi del
discorso politico sull'Occidente nel novecento"
2004-5: Department Pluriannual Research Programme "Immaginare
l'Occidente. La libertà fra proposta e imposizione"
2006-2008 Research Project MIUR-PRIN 2006: "Governance e
institution building "circolo virtuoso" delle politiche di sviluppo
e di riduzione della povertà in Africa australe?"
2010-13 International project "Community based system in HIV
treatment - CoBaSys", finanziato da ACP Science and
Technology Programme, with European and African partners.
"2012-15 Research project Prin-Miur 2010-11 "State, plurality, change in Africa".
Academic functions
Member of the Board Committee of the Department of Political and Social Sciences
Partecipation to the Boards of Editors of academic
journals
Member of the board of editors of the journal of studies about Africa and Middle East
"Afriche e Orienti"
Member of the editorial board of the journal "NAD - Nuovi autoritarismi e democrazie"
Other Activities
He is member of Academy of Sciences, Bologna
He is member of the Centro Dipartimentale di Studi Storici e
Politici su Africa e Medio Oriente and of the Centro Dipartimentale MigLab in the Department of Political
and Social Sciences
