Role
Formerly a full professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Pavia, since 2021 she has been scientific director of the Pavia Institute for the History of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age.
Bio
Graduated with honors in Literature from the University of Pavia in 1976, she was a student and postgraduate student at the Collegio Ghislieri, and a scholarship holder from the Einaudi Foundation, the Accademia dei Lincei, and the CNR. She spent periods of study and research in Switzerland, at the Department of Education of the Canton of Ticino and the University of Basel. From 1981, she developed her career at the University of Pavia, from researcher to associate professor and then full professor; between 2013 and 2020, she also taught at the University of Italian Switzerland.
His research focuses on contemporary history , with a particular focus on fascism and anti-fascism in Italy and abroad, especially in France, Switzerland, and the United States. He has also studied anti-Semitism in Italy and Europe, intellectual migration, the formation of elites in the twentieth century, the history of contemporary Lombardy, and the history of universities.
Recent institutional sources at the University of Pavia confirm her qualification as a full professor and her work in the field of Contemporary European History.