Role
Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Political and International Sciences of the University of Siena and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of the History of Sport (SISS)
Bio
After graduating in Political Science from the University of Siena in 2003, she earned a PhD in Theory and History of Modernization and Social Change in Contemporary Times from the same university in 2006. She conducts research through scholarships and grants, subsequently serving as a research fellow at Bocconi University in Milan between 2014 and 2015 on a project on the First World War. In 2018, she served as a visiting fellow at the archives of the European University Institute.
From 2019 to 2022, she was a fixed-term researcher at the Department of Political and International Sciences at the University of Siena. In December 2022, she became an associate professor of Contemporary History in the same department. Since 2023, she has been vice-president of the Italian Society of the History of Sport, actively coordinating the association's activities.
His research focuses on the history of sport , with particular attention to the history of cycling , the relationship between football and society, winter sports and the regional impact of major sporting events, and the history of cycling mobility . He is a member of the scientific committee of "History and Contemporary Problems" and the editorial boards of "Le Carte e la Storia," "Storia dello Sport. Rivista di studi contemporanei," and "European Studies in Sports History." For his research on the historiography of mobility, he received the 2021 Mario Alighiero Manacorda Prize and the 2022 Giuseppe Imbucci Prize for his volume on the history of the bicycle in Italy.