PRESENTATION
This blog
I have created this blog so that I can converse with all those who share an interest in certain stands of historical research. The purpose of the website is not only to present the results of my own studies but also to promote discussion and mutual stimulus with a view to building a network of intellectual exchange which will counter the individualistic and solitary character of historical research.
Who am I?
I graduated in Economics and Business Studies at the Catholic University of Milan with a thesis on the history of the trade-union movement in the contemporary age (supervisor Professor Sergio Zaninelli). Immediately after graduation I collaborated with the University of Valencia on a scholarship financed by the local administration of Benicassim
I was awarded a research doctorate in Economic History at the I.U.N. of Naples (supervisor Professor Luigi De Rosa). I then taught, as a contract lecturer, a course on ‘Economic Policy’ at the University Cà Foscari of Venice (Faculty of Arts). Thereafter I received a contract stipulated with the Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods of the University of Genoa (on appointment by Professor Giuseppe Felloni) and an annual research bursary in Economic History (disciplinary sector SECS-P/12) at the Brescia campus of the Catholic University.
More recently, on contract to the Center for European Studies, I have taught the “History of the European Welfare State” as visiting professor at the Novosibirsk State University (Russian Federation). Moreover, by invitation of the AMIt – “Asociaciòn Mexicana Italianitas”, I have held a course on “Economic, Political and Social History of Italy in the second half of the Twentieth Century” at the Instituto Tecnològico de Estudios Superiores of Monterrey (Mexico).
As part of the On.MO.HI project, I have collaborated with the chair of Modern History at the University of Cordoba (Spain), and I have worked as a seminar tutor at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Calabria.
For more than a decade I have collaborated with the “Mario Romani” Institute of Economic and Social History of the Catholic University, Milan, participating in various co-financed MIUR projects, and I have been teaching assistant to the chairs of Economic History at the sections in Piacenza and Milan of the Catholic University.
Besides my academic activities, I have worked as a trainer and teacher for local agencies (particularly civic schools and training centres for adolescents run by the municipality of Milan) non-profit and private social organizations, trade unions, and as a secondary school teacher.
From some years, I have participated in an online project run by the SIM (Histories in Movement) Association. Moreover, I have participated in initiatives by the SISE (Italian Society of Economic Historians), of which I am a member.
I have given papers to numerous seminars and conferences in Italy and abroad. I have conducted research in collaboration with universities, foundations, research institutes, trade unions, local bodies, and for other commissioners. Testifying to this research activity is a large body of studies on themes concerning economic and social history.
My research interests centre mainly on the following areas of inquiry:
· local financial history in the modern age
· the history of local welfare in the contemporary age
· history of the trade-union and cooperative movement.
