Full professor of U.S. History at the School of Political Science of the
University of Bologna.
She was previously Assistant Professor from 1998 to 2005 at the
School of Political Science of the University of Bologna and associate professor from 2005 to 2019. She got
the Laurea in Lettere at the University of Florence in 1982 (thesis
on John R.Commons’ political and social thought, 110/110 cum
laude) and the Ph.D in Storia delle Americhe at the University of
Genoa in 1992 with a dissertation on "Crisi dello stato
ottocentesco e amministrazione nella riflessione teorica
e nel dibattito politico negli Stati Uniti fra Otto e
Novecento.
Il caso del Wisconsin, 1905-1915" (The crisis of nineteenth-century
state and the rise of administration in U.S. theoretical reflection
and political debate between nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.
The case of Wisconsin, 1905-1915). She also got a post-graduate
fellowship at the School of Political Sciences of the University of
Bologna from 1993 to 1995.
She has been one of the founders of the Interuniversity Center of
Euro-American History and Politics (CISPEA) and director from 2014 to 2017. Since 2004 she has been one of the organizers of
the Cispea Summer School devoted to the study of the US history and
politics.
She was co-editor of the journal "Ricerche di Storia
Politica", published by Il Mulino (Bologna) from 2013 to 2018. She is currently member of the steering board of the journal . She is also member
of the editorial board of the journal of political thought, "Scienza
& Politica" (editor: Pierangelo Schiera), and, from January
2015, of the journal "Il Mulino". She was also member of the
scientific board of the series in women's history that will be
published by Viella in collaboration with the Italian Society of
Women Historians from 2010 to 2014.
She was vice-president of the Italian Association of North-American
Studies (AISNA) from 2013 to 2016 and former president of the Italian Society of
Women Historians, and member of the steering board of the
Italian Society for International History (SISI) from 2014 to 2018.
She chaired the advanced program in International Relations of the
School of Political Sciences of the University of Bologna and she
is currently member of the faculty of the PhD. Program in
International and Global Studies of the University of
Bologna.
She is member of the editorial board of the publishing house Il Mulino and member of the steering committee of the journal Il Mulino.
She has been appointed member of the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna.
She won two prizes: the first in 1992 - Opera Prima Roberto
Ruffilli - for the book Oltre la politica.
La crisi politico-istituzionale negli Stati Uniti fra Otto e
Novecento
, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1993 (Beyond Politics.
The U.S. political and institutional crisis between 19th
and 20th centuries), and the second in 2003 - Prize ‘Gisa
Giani’ of the Istituto per la cultura e la storia d’impresa of
Terni for the best book on women and gender history in the field of
labor and business history “ for La democrazia vissuta.
Individualismo e pluralismo nel pensiero di Mary Parker Follett
[Democracy as a Way of Life: Individualism and Pluralism in the
Thought of Mary Parker Follett], Turin, La Rosa Editrice,
2001. She was also selected in the short list of the Premio Sissco Senior for the book Eleanor Roosevelt. Una biografia politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2021.
She is Alumnae of the Salzburg Seminar - Center for the Study of
American Culture and Language, Salzburg, Austria. In 2000 she was
selected and attended the Fulbright American Studies Institute
Program on "U.S. Political System: Origin, Structure and
Contemporary Issues", Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,
Ill. In 2011 she was awarded with a research grant from the
Roosevelt Institute (New York).
She is
member of the following professional associations: AISNA (Italian
Association for the American Studies), EAAS (European Association
for American Studies), EAAS Women Network, SIS (Italian Society of Women Historians),
Transatlantic Studies Association, SISSCO (Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History);
SISI (Italian Society for International History); APSA (American
Political Science Association).
She has been Visiting Professor (Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility
Program) at Sciences Po-Lyon in 2010 and at Indiana University in 2017.
She lectured in Groningen, Oxford, Lyon, Tokyo, Middleburg, Ghent, Losanna and contributed to
many Italian and American journals. Her books were reviewed in
Italian and also American journals (namely, Journal of American
History, Reviews in American History). She is part of the referee
community of some Italian journals and of the Journal of American
History (see, Journal of American History, v. 95, n. 4,
2009).
She is a contributor of many Italian TV programs: "Il tempo e la
storia", 'Passato e Presente', 'I mondi di ieri', 'TvStoria', 5000+ (Rai 3 and RaiStoria), "Correva l'anno" (Rai 3), TG 5, Sky Arte.
She has been also a contributor of some Italian newspapers and Italian and Swiss radio programs.
She has published extensively on American political history, on
women's movement and women political culture. She is currently
working on a book on Eleanor Roosevelt's political activism, that
will be published by Il Mulino (Bologna), the leading publishing
house in the fields of history and political and social
sciences.
