Stefano Cavazza

Education

-1984: Degree in History, University of Bologna

-1992: Ph.D. in Contemporary History (Crises and Transformations of Societies ) University of Turin.

Research Activities

-1986-1988 Research student at the Ludwig Uhland Institut, University of Tübingen with a scholarship awarded by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

-1989-1991: Ph.D research student at the University of Turin.

- 1993-1995 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bologna.

 - January- June 1996 Research Fellow at the Istituto Storico Germanico (German Historical Institute), Rome

- May 2003 Research fellowship at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte Munich (Germany)

 - July 2005 Research fellowship at the Ludwig Uhland Institut, University of Tuebingen awarded as part of the Short Mobility Programme of the CNR

Teaching Experience

-a.y. 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97 Tutor of Contemporary history (19th and 20th centuries) at the University of Bologna-Facoltà di Scienze politiche- Forlì Campus

-a.y 1996/97 , 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01 Professor of European Modern History (19th and 20th centuries) at the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori, University of Bologna, Forlì Campus

-a.y 2002/02 2002/03 2003/04 Contemporary history (19th and 20th centuries) at the University of Bologna-Facoltà  di Scienze politiche- Bologna and at the University of Bologna-Facoltà  di Scienze politiche-Forlì Campus

-a.y 2004/05 2005/06 Professor of Contemporary History (19th and 20th centuries) at the University of Bologna-Facoltà  di Scienze politiche- Bologna

- a.y. 2006/07 until 2017 Professor of Contemporary History (19th and 20th centuries) at the University of Bologna-Facoltà  di Scienze politiche- Bologna

-from January 2018 Professor of Contemporary History (19th and 20th centuries) at the University of Bologna-department of arts

Visiting professorship and Teaching staff

-February 2000 Maitre de conference invitè (visiting professor) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale, Paris.
- June 2004  Seminar in the Blockveranstaltung of G. Clemens: "Neuere Forschungen zum Faschismus. Der italienische Faschismus", University of Trier Fachbereich III (1 week: Socrates program, Teaching Mobility Staff)
- June 2005 Lectures at the University of Potsdam (1 week Socrates program, Teaching Mobility Staff)
- June 2006 Lectures at the Humboldt university of Berlin ( 1 week Socrates program, Teaching Mobility Staff)
- June 2007 Blockseminar "Lokale Identitäten in Italien: Von der Einingung bis zum Leganord" at the University of Trier Fachbereich III (1 week: Socrates program, Teaching Mobility Staff)
- July 2008 Lectures at the University of Potsdam (1 week LLP program, Teaching Mobility Staff)
- July 2009 Lectures at the University Humboldt of Berlin  (1 week LLP program, Teaching Mobility Staff)
- June 2010 Lectures at the University of Potsdam   (1 week LLP program, Teaching Mobility Staff)
- July  2011 Lectures at the University of Trier and at the University Humboldt of Berlin
- July 2012 Lectures at the University of Potsdam   (1 week LLP program, Teaching Mobility Staff)
- July 2013 Lectures at the University Humboldt of Berlin   (1 week LLP program, Teaching Mobility Staff)
- June 2018 (1 week) Lectures at Universität Trier (Erasmus + program)
-22-29 June 2014 Lectures at the Technische Universität Dresden  (1 week LLP program)
-2015 Lectures at Universität Trier  (1 week erasmus program)
-4-9 July 2016 Lectures at Humboldt Universität Berlin  (1 week erasmus program)
-26 June- 1 July 2017 Lectures at the Technische Universität Dresden (1 week erasmus program)
- 8 July- 14 July 2019 Lectures at the Technische Universität Dresden (Erasmus + program)
- July 2021 Lectures at the Humboldt university of Berlin (Erasmus + program)
-July 2022 (1 week) Lectures at Universität Trier (Erasmus + program)
- July2023 (1 week) Technische Universität Dresden (Erasmus + program)
- Mai 2024 (1 week) Universität Kiel (Erasmus + program)
- July 2025 (1 week) LMU Munechen (Erasmus + program)

Academic Administrative Positions

From 2018 until now Delegate for internationalisation of the department of arts

from november 2015 until october 2021 Vice-Rector's delegate for International Teaching and Education

2012 until now member of the Giunta di dipartimento

2010 - 2016 Director of the Ph.D. Progamme "Poitics, Institutions, History"

November 2009 - mai 2014 - Director of the Ph.D. Programme "Political history of the contemporary age in the 19th and 20th centuries Federico Chabod"

November 2006 - november 2012  Director of the BA Degree in International Studies

November 2006  - 2009 in charge of organising teaching activities for the Ph.D. Progamme Political history of the contemporary age in the 19th and 20th centuries Federico Chabod"

March 2005 - July 2007 Faculty Socrates Coordinator

May 2004 to 2007 Member of Board assigning small grants for preparing the end of MA dissertation abroad

2006/07 until 2012 now Representative of the Associate Professors on the Department Committee

2004/05 Faculty Coordinator of Teaching Assessment

2003/04-2005/06 Representative of the Assistant Professors on the Department Committee

1999/00-2002/03 Representative of the Assistant Professors on the Department Committee

Professional Activities

January 2019 Until 14th Febraury 2025 co-editor of the Peer Revue Journal "Ricerche Di Storia Politica"

1995- 14th Febraury 2025 Member of the Editorial Board of Ricerche di Storia Politica
2011 - now member of the editorial board of the serie Political History (Rubettino publisher)

from 1 January 2013 Member of the Editor's Board of the  academic Journal Ricerche di storia politica
July 2012 - june 2015 Member of the scientific Board of the "'Istituto nazionale per la Storia del Movimento di Liberazione"  Milan
1994-97 Member of Consultants' Board of Memoria e ricerca
1998-2003 In charge of the section covering Germany in Mappamondo, a regular section of Il Mulino.

Direction of national and international peer-reviewed researh projects

-PRIN 2022 Inequality and generations in Italy (1914-2008) (Principal Investigator) (concluded)

-PRIN 2008 Consumption, well-being and political legitimacy in Italy in the 1960s-1990s (Head of Local Unit) (concluded)
- 2010-12 Villa Vigoni Trilateral Programme: Cycle of Workshops on Populism (with Paula Diehl Humboldt Universität and Didier Mineur Sciences Po) (concluded)

Member  of research project (funded )
-Progetto di ricerca pluriennale del Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia Consenso e legittimazione nella trasformazione dei sistemi politici, Principal Investigator:Raffaella Gherardi (concluded)
-Crisi e legittimazione nella trasformazione dei regimi politici, progetto COFIN ex 40% (e.f.1998) Principal Investigator: Paolo Pombeni (concluded)
-La costruzione e la crisi del discorso politico sull'"occidente" nel Novecento, progetto COFIN ex 40% (e.f. 2003)  Principal Investigator: Paolo Pombeni (concluded)
-Pratiche, Linguaggi e Teorie della Delegittimazione (PRIN 2010-2011) Principal Investigator:Fulvio Cammarano (concluded)

Reserach or teaching Evaluation
-Referee vqr 2004-2010
-Esperto Hceres Vague A (2015)
-Referee vqr 2011-2014
-Referee vqr 2015-2018
-Referee vqr 2019-2024
-Evaluation Panel Villa Vigoni 2016-2024
-2023-now Membro Commissione ASN sc 11/A3

Prize

2005 Minturnae Prize for Historical Research (for the book Piccole Patrie)

2025 Amici di Memoria e Ricerca Prize (for the book: Nazione, Nazionalismo e folklore in Italia e Germania Bologna, Il Mulino 2024)

Supervisor PhD Dissertation

Giada Sarmenti, La Questione di Berlino vista dalla diplomazia italo-tedesca, Dottorato in arti, storia e società 39 ciclo (in progress)

Zhudaiyi Zhang, Taro Across the Ocean: Spread, Localizing and Constructing a Global Knowledge of Potato, 40 Ciclo (in progress)

Pizzirani, Silvia (2022) Consumismo virtuoso? Il rapporto tra politica e consumi in Italia negli anni Settanta, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Storie, culture e politiche del globale, 34 Ciclo.

Ercolani, Sara (2018) La Tratta delle Bianche in Italia e in Gran Bretagna. Dall'associazionismo alla Societa delle Nazioni (1885-1946), [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Studi globali e internazionali - global and international studies, 30 Ciclo.

Casini, Valentina (2015) Sinistra extraparlamentare e Partito comunista in italia 1968-1976, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Politica, istituzioni, storia, 27 Ciclo:

Triola, Filippo (2013) La costruzione delle relazioni politiche ed economiche tra l'Italia e la Germania occidentale dopo la seconda guerra mondiale (1945-1951), [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Storia dell'Età contemporanea nei secoli XIX e XX "Federico Chabod", 25 Ciclo

Köppen, Paul (2013) Die praktische Komponente deutscher Verständigungspolitik: Leopold von Hoesch in Paris, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Storia dell'Età contemporanea nei secoli XIX e XX "Federico Chabod", 25 Ciclo. Tutor: Stefano Cavazza (cotutela con l'Università di Potsdam supervisore Host university Manfred Görtemaker)

Piemontese, Matteo Gaspare (2012) Un Welfare State per le classi medie: Democristiani e Socialisti in Francia e Italia, 1945-1958. [Dissertation thesis], LUISS Guido Carli, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche (sede amministrativa), Dottorato di ricerca in Storia dell'età contemporanea nei secoli XIX e XX "Federico Chabod", 23 Ciclo

Goni Leonardo (2006), Ministero della Produzione Bellica e Regia Aeronautica 1940-43: attività, organizzazione delle risorse ed interventi politici tra tentativi di programmazione ed emergenza, [Dissertation thesis],Dottorato di ricerca in Storia dell'età contemporanea nei secoli XIX e XX "Federico Chabod", XVII Ciclo