Role
Honorary Inspector of Archives, former director at the Ministry of Culture. Cultural heritage consultant.
Bio
After graduating in Foreign Languages and Literatures, she qualified to teach in secondary schools and specialized in Library Science and the Regional History of Puglia at the University of Salento. Having won several competitions as coordinating director of the Ministry of Culture Library, she was assigned to the State Archives of Brindisi and Lecce. She teaches at the MIC (Ministry of Culture) Specialization School. She initiates research on archival sources related to social and gender studies, and is a speaker at numerous administrative seminars and national and international conferences. She is a commissioner for Ministry of Culture competitions and curates exhibitions and events at civic and educational institutions, and at the State Archives of Brindisi and Lecce. She promotes the valorization of sources and research methodology. She teaches documentary research. She collaborates (research project on the role of women in the social life of the Terra d'Otranto region between the 19th and 20th centuries) with the Department of History, Society and Human Studies at the University of Salento. She is a member of the Center for Studies on Atlantic-Mediterranean Relations (CESRAM). She is a member of the Public History Laboratory and the provincial committee of the Institute of the History of the Risorgimento, a member of the "Coscienza Civica" association and the Committee for the Promotion of Culture for the Republic at the Prefecture of Lecce. She promotes active citizenship, the valorization of women's roles, and awareness of the proper preservation and valorization of civic heritage. She oversees projects, particularly documentary films, that concern the transmission of community heritage in the Salento area, focusing on the scientific dissemination of gender history. For over ten years, she has been involved in the protection and valorization of the archival heritage of civic institutions, schools, and private individuals. Since 2018, she has been an Honorary Archives Inspector (Ministry of Culture - Superintendency of Puglia).
She is the author of the book: "Periodic Press in Terra d'Otranto: A Dangerous Source for Security, Valuable and Rare for Archives." She is the author of over one hundred essays, most of which concern studies on sources in social/urban history and gender history.
Her main research interests include the social role of women in urban spaces, female popular participation, the transmission and dissemination of historical and social heritage, and the valorization and use of sources.