Matilde Cazzola mainly deals with the study of English radical thought and British administrative thought in the 18th and 19th centuries, by focusing on different jurisdictions: colonial North America, the Caribbean, India, Australia, and South-East Asia. In her research, Matilde adopts the perspective of the history of political thought and combines it with the interests and approaches of imperial history, legal history, administrative history, and social history. Over the last few years, Matilde has also focused on European philanthropic thought, with a special emphasis on Britain in the Age of Revolution. Her current research topics include the theories and practices of the imperial policy of protection, and the concepts of history, archive, and testimony/evidence within the context of a micro-historical investigation. More recently, Matilde has also contributed to a comparative study on memory and trauma in the Italian and the Indian Constitutions.
