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".
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
