CURRICULUM VITAE
Elisabetta Bini
University of Trieste
Research Fellow
[email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
2014-
University of Trieste. Research Fellow.
Fellowship funded by the University of Trieste and by Elettra – Sincrotrone
S.C.p.A.
Research project: Between Oil and Nuclear Power: the United States and Italy’s Energy
Policies, 1945-1990.
2012-2013
University of Rome, Tor Vergata. Research Fellow.
Fellowship funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and
Research (MIUR).
2011-2012
European University Institute. Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship.
EDUCATION
2011
New York University, Department of History, Ph.D., with distinction.
Dissertation: Fueling the Cold War: Oil, Economic Development, and Mass
Consumption in Postwar Italy and the Mediterranean, 1945-1969.
Dissertation committee: Mary Nolan (Chair), Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Frederick
Cooper, Federico Romero, Marilyn Young.
2004
New York University, Department of History, M.Phil.
1999
University of Bologna, Department of History, Laurea (B.A.) in American
history, full marks (110/110) cum laude.
1999
Utrecht University, European Summer School in Women’s Studies from
Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
1998
Scuola Estiva di Storia delle Donne, University of Siena.
1995-1996
University of California at Santa Cruz, Education Abroad Program
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS
2014
Finalist for the First Book Award, promoted by the Società Italiana per lo Studio
della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCo).
Visiting Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
Washington, D.C.
2013
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Research Grant.
2012-2013
Participant in the PRIN research project Italy in the International Context (19681981): Crisis, Transformation, Stabilization, funded by the Italian Ministry of
Education, University and Research (MIUR).
2012
National History Center. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship to
participate in the Seventh Decolonization Seminar.
2011-2013
University of Trieste, Research Grant for a group project on Le tour du monde en
un jour: World Exhibitions and National Cultures.
2009-2012
Participant in the PRIN research project on Consumption, Well-Being and Political
Legitimation in Italy between the 1960s and the 1990s, funded by the Italian Ministry
of Education, University and Research (MIUR).
2008-2009
New York University. Departmental Graduate Assistantship Fellowship.
2009
New York University. Travel Grant.
Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea, Travel Grant.
2008
American Historical Association. Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant.
New York University. Global Fellowship.
2002-2008
New York University. Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship.
2006
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Travel Grant.
2005-2006
Social Science Research Council (SSRC). International Dissertation Research
Fellowship.
2003
New York University. Travel Grant.
Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea, Travel Grant.
2000
University of Bologna. “Leonardo Da Vinci” Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
Books
La potente benzina italiana. Guerra fredda e consumi di massa tra Italia, Stati Uniti e Terzo mondo
(1945-1973) (Rome: Carocci, 2013).
Fueling the Cold War: Oil, Development and Consumption in the Mediterranean, 1945-1973, book
manuscript in progress, chapters submitted to Cambridge University Press.
Comprare per credere. La pubblicità in Italia dalla belle époque a oggi, in preparation (Rome: Carocci,
2015) (with Ferdinando Fasce and Bianca Gaudenzi).
Editor
Oil Shock: The Crisis of 1973 and its Economic Legacy, in preparation (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015)
(with Federico Romero and Giuliano Garavini).
“La fine del petrolio. Risorse energetiche e democrazia nella storia contemporanea,” special
issue of 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, 4 (2011) (with Simone Selva).
“Attraversare i confini. Pratiche culturali e politiche del femminismo italiano (anni ’70 e
’80),” special issue of Genesis 10, no.2 (2011) (with Teresa Bertilotti and Catia Papa).
“Femminismi senza frontiere,” special issue of Genesis 8, no.2 (2009) (with Arnaldo Testi).
Articles and Book Chapters
“From the Mezzogiorno to the Third World: Paul Rosenstein-Rodan and the Globalization of
Development Politics, 1930s-1970s,” in preparation
“A Menacing Six-Legged Dog: Italy’s Challenge to the ‘Seven Sisters’ during the Cold War,” in
preparation.
“From Colony to Oil Producer: U.S. Oil Companies and the Reshaping of Labor Relations in
Libya, 1951-1969,” in preparation.
“Frontier Masculinities and Corporate Domesticity: American Oil Towns in Libya, 1950s-1970s,”
in preparation.
“Between Bipolarism and Détente: Italy’s Energy Policies in the Long 1970s,” in preparation.
“Oil for the Free World: U.S. Public Relations as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Italy,”
submitted to Ricerche di storia politica.
“Fueling Modernization in a Transatlantic World: Oil, Development and Consumption in ENI’s
Policies, 1953-1962,” in Alain Beltran, Eric Boussière and Giuliano Garavini (eds.), Europe and
Energy from the 1960s to the 1980s (Brussels: Peter Lang, forthcoming).
Entries “Oil, military use of,” and “Energy Security,” The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science
Perspectives, edited by Paul Joseph, forthcoming (with Marta Musso)
“Irresistible Empire or Innocents Abroad? The Role of American Advertising Agencies in
Postwar Italy,” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 1 (2015) (with Ferdinando Fasce).
“Drawing a Global Color Line: ‘The American Negro Exhibit’ at the 1900 Paris Exposition,” in
Guido Abbattista, ed., Moving Bodies, Displaying Nations: National Cultures, Race, Ethnicities,
Gender in World Exhibitions, 1873-1939 (Trieste: EUT, 2014): 25-52.
“The USA and Labour Relations in Libya’s Nascent Oil Industry,” The Middle East in London, 4
(2014): 17-18.
“A Transatlantic Shock: Italy’s Energy Policies between the Mediterranean and the EEC, 19671974,” special issue on “The Energy Crises of the 1970s. Anticipations and Reactions in the
Industrialized World” (edited by Frank Bösch and Rüdiger Graf), Historical Social Research, 4
(2014): 145-164.
“Eni, Mattei and Boldrini: A Radical Response to the Challenges of Developing International
Energy Expertise,” in Phyl Andrews and Jim Playfoot, eds., Education and Training for the Oil and
Gas Industry: Vol.1 (London: Elsevier, 2014): 1-16.
“Interessi petroliferi internazionali e classi dirigenti nella Libia contemporanea,” in Leonardo
Paggi, ed., Le radici delle trasformazioni del mondo arabo (Verona: Ombre Corte, 2014): 68-83.
“Gli spazi del margine. Storia della sessualità e studi lgbtiq in una prospettiva interdisciplinare,”
La camera blu. Rivista di studi di genere, 9 (2013): 3-19.
“Imprese pubbliche e consumi di massa. Il caso dell’ENI (1953-1973),” in Stefano Cavazza,
ed., Consumi e politica nell’Italia repubblicana (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013): 49-76.
“Dal Fronte Popolare al femminismo della seconda ondata. Betty Friedan e la mistica della
femminilità,” in Pier Paolo Poggio, ed., Il capitalismo americano e i suoi critici (Milano: Jaca
Books, 2013): 301-316.
“From Colony to Oil Producer: Oil Workers, Trade Unions and the Emergence of Oil
Nationalism in Libya, 1956-1969,” Max Weber Programme Working Paper, European
University Institute, December 2012.
“Selling Gasoline With a Smile: Gas Station Attendants between the United States, Italy and
the Third World, 1955-1970,” special issue on “Global Commodities” edited by Mary
Nolan and Mae Ngai, International Labor and Working-Class History, 81, no.1 (2012): 69-93.
“La storia delle donne e di genere negli Stati Uniti in una prospettiva inter-generazionale,”
Genesis, 10, no.2 (2011): 191-202.
“La questione della leadership nei movimenti inter/transnazionali delle donne,”
Contemporanea 14, no.2 (2011): 293-301.
“The Origins and Early Developments of Public Relations in Italy, 1945-1960.” Journal of
Communication Management, 15, no.3 (2011): 210-222 (with Ferdinando Fasce and Toni
Muzi Falconi).
“La democrazia dei consumi tra Italia e Stati Uniti: genere, cittadinanza, motorizzazione di
massa nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra,” in Stefano Cavazza and Emanuela Scarpellini,
eds. La rivoluzione dei consumi. Società di massa e benessere in Europa, 1945-2000 (Bologna: Il
Mulino, 2010): 183-219.
“Fotografare la guerra d’Algeria: tra censura di stato e fotogiornalismo,” 900. Per una storia del
tempo presente, 2 (2009): 153-169.
“Una ‘nota a margine della storia’. La ricerca su Gerda Taro tra storia sociale e storia delle
donne,” Storicamente 4 (2008), http://www.storicamente.org/06_dibattiti/gerdataro/bini.html.
“Introduction,” to Irme Schaber Gerda Taro: una fotografa rivoluzionaria nella guerra civile spagnola
(Roma: DeriveApprodi, 2008): 5-11.
“Le pétroleuses: corpi di donne in rivolta,” Genesis 5, no.2 (2006): 189-217.
“Fotografia e diplomazia culturale: il caso della United States Information Agency (USIA)
durante la guerra fredda,” Contemporanea 9, no.1 (2006): 99-114.
“Dal fascismo alla democrazia: interpretazioni americane delle relazioni di genere nell’Italia
del secondo dopoguerra,” Genesis 3, no.1 (2005): 23-44.
“Cultura dei consumi e cittadinanza delle donne nel recente dibattito storiografico,” Ricerche
di Storia Politica 7, no.2 (2004): 227-244.
“Children at Work. Il lavoro minorile nelle fotografie di Lewis Hine,” Zapruder, 1 (2004)
(with Mariella Boccadoro).
“Uno spaccato di storiografia di genere negli anni ’50: il caso degli Usa,” Contemporanea 6,
no.1 (2003): 191-202.
“La critica sociale negli Stati Uniti degli anni ’50: Betty Friedan e La mistica della femminilità,”
Italia Contemporanea 227, no.1 (2002): 261-276.
Entry “Feminine Mystique” in Elizabeth Shores, ed., Encyclopedia on the Family in the United States
(Santa Barbara: ABC Clio Press, 2001).
“Genere, consumi, comportamenti negli anni Cinquanta. Italia e Stati Uniti a confronto.”
Italia Contemporanea 224, no.3 (2001): 389-390 (with Elisabetta Vezzosi).
“Donne e consumi nei sobborghi americani degli anni Cinquanta.” Italia Contemporanea 224,
no.3 (2001): 390-396.
Book Reviews
Pippo Ciorra, ed., Energy. Architetture del petrolio e del post-petrolio (Milano: Electa, 2013), Il
mestiere di storico, 1 (2014).
Ferdinando Fasce, Le anime del commercio. Pubblicità e consumi nel secolo americano (Rome: Carocci,
2011), Ricerche di storia politica 4 (2014).
Laura Schettini, Il gioco delle parti. Travestimenti e paure sociali tra Otto e Novecento (Firenze: Le
Monnier, 2011). Passato e presente, 2012.
Paride Rugafiori and Ferdinando Fasce, eds., Dal petrolio all’energia: ERG, 1938-2008. Storia e
cultura d’impresa (Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2008). Energia, May 2009.
Alexander Stephan, ed., The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism
After 1945 (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007). Ricerche di Storia Politica. 12, no.1 (2009).
Charles S. Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2006). 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, 1 (2008).
Arnaldo Testi, La formazione degli Stati Uniti (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2003), and Arnaldo Testi, Il
secolo degli Stati Uniti (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008). Discussioni Sissco (2008):
http://www.sissco.it/index.php?id=1377.
David Seymour, Debating Divorce in Italy: Marriage and the Making of Modern Italians, 1860-1974
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Italia Contemporanea, 248, no.3 (2007)
Giovanni De Luna, Gabriele d’Autilia and Luca Criscenti, eds. L’Italia del Novecento. Le
fotografie e la storia (Torino: Einaudi, 2005). Annale SISSCO 7 (2006)
Luciano Cheles and Claudio Sponza, eds. The Art of Persuasion: Political Communication in Italy
from 1945 to the 1990s (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001). Journal of Modern
Italian Studies 10, no.2 (2005).
Adolfo Mignemi, Lo sguardo e l’immagine. La fotografia come documento storico (Torino: Bollati
Boringhieri, 2003). Annale SISSCO 6 (2005)
Piero Bevilacqua, Il paesaggio italiano nelle fotografie dell’Istituto Luce (Roma: Editori Riuniti,
2003). Annale SISSCO 5 (2004)
Jennifer Scanlon, ed. The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader (New York: New York
University Press, 2000). Ricerche di Storia Politica 6, no.1 (2003)
Sergio Luzzatto, L’immagine del Duce (Roma: Editori Riuniti, 2002). Annale SISSCO 4 (2003)
Lucia Motti, Le donne (Roma: Editori Riuniti, 2001). Annale SISSCO 3 (2002)
CONFERENCES
Conference Presentations
2015
“Building an Oil Empire: Labor and Gender Relations in American Company
Towns in Libya, 1956-1969,” as part of a panel on "Architectures of Oil: Global
Perspectives," Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting,
Chicago.
2014
“Between Oil and Nuclear Power: the United States and Italy’s Energy Politics
during the 1950s and 1960s,” International conference Italy’s Nuclear Experience in an
International and Comparative Perspective, University of Trieste.
Chair, Building Energy Histories, Annual Conference of the European Oil and Gas
Archives Network (EOGAN), Maritime Museum, Rotterdam.
“Between Oil and Nuclear Power: the United States and Italy’s Energy Politics
during the 1950s and 1960s,” Electric Worlds: Creations, Circulations, Tensions, and
Transitions, from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, Fondation EDF, Paris.
“The U.S. and Oil Workers in Libya, 1955-1981,” International conference Labor
Politics in the Oil Industry: New Historical Perspectives, University of Padua.
Introduction and Chair, Panel “Storia del nucleare in Italia tra passato e futuro,” at
the science festival, Trieste Next. Salone Europeo della Ricerca Scientifica.
“Le politiche energetiche italiane tra Nord Africa e Unione Sovietica durante gli anni
Settanta,” L’Italia nel contesto internazionale dagli anni Sessanta alla fine della Guerra fredda,
University of Padua.
“U.S. Oil Companies and the Reshaping of Gender Relations in Post-Colonial Libya,
1950s-1960s”, Gendering the History of Libya: Transnational and Feminist Approaches, 1920th Centuries, Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Toronto.
“Drawing a Global Color Line: ‘The American Negro Exhibit’ at the 1900 Paris
Exposition,” Moving Bodies, Displaying Nations: National Cultures, Race, Ethnicities, Gender
in European and North-American World Exhibitions, 1873-1939, University of Trieste.
2013
“Frontier Masculinities and Corporate Domesticity: U.S. Oil Companies and the
Reshaping of Empire in Libya, 1950s-1970s,” Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges,
Brown University (planned).
“The Role of American Advertising Agencies in Postwar Italy,” Conference on Historical
Analysis & Research in Marketing, University of Copenhagen (with Ferdinando Fasce).
“Oil Shocks and the Reshaping of the Cold War in the Mediterranean during the
1970s,” Italy Between Détente and Bipolar Constraints, 1968-1981, University of Rome Tor
Vergata.
“The Houses that Oil Built: U.S. Oil Companies and the Reshaping of Labor
Relations in Libya, 1951-1969,” International Conference on the Comparative Social Histories
of Labour in the Oil Industry, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
(planned).
Discussant at the conference Pivotal Year: the 1973 Oil Shock and its Global Significance,
Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute.
2012
“Oil Workers, Trade Unions and the Emergence of Oil Nationalism in Libya, 19561969”, Seventh Decolonization Seminar, Washington DC.
“From Colony to Oil Producer: International Oil Politics in Libya, 1951-1969,” Max
Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies June Conference, European University
Institute.
“Italy’s Development Policies in North Africa,” Conference Strategies of Economic Aid
and Development in the Mediterranean from the Cold War to the Present, European University
Institute.
2011
“Put a Tiger in Your Tank: Esso and McCann Erickson in Post-World War II Italy,”
as part of a panel on Advertising between Italy and the U.S. during the “American Century,”
Congress of the Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCo),
Forlì, Italy.
“The Italian Mezzogiorno as a Laboratory and a Blueprint for International Economic
Development (1945-1970),” as part of a Seminar on Development and Underdevelopment
in the Public Sphere, XIX and XX Centuries, University of Padua, Italy.
2010
“The Origins and Early Developments of Public Relations in Italy, 1945-1960”,
The First International History of Public Relations Conference, Bournemouth
University, UK (with Ferdinando Fasce and Toni Muzi Falconi).
2009
Organizer of the panel “Oil in the 20th Century: between Business History, Social
History and Environmental History,” Congress of the Società Italiana per lo Studio
della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCo), Trieste, Italy.
Paper presented: “ENI’s Modernization Policies toward the Third World: the Case
of the Graduate School for the Study of Hydrocarbons.”
2008
Selected participant at the conference “The Two Wests: Democracy, Citizenship
and Social Rights in the United States and Europe (1918-2008)”, organized by the
Centro Inter-Universitario di Storia e Politica Euro-Americana (CISPEA),
Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy.
Participant and presenter at the Global Seminar Dissertation Workshop,
organized by New York University and the University of Amsterdam, New York
University.
“Fueling the Cold War: the Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI) between Italy and
the Third World”, Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Meeting,
New York City.
“Cold War Masculinities: Gas Station Attendants between Italy, the United States,
and the Third World, 1945-1965”, The Eighth Annual Harvard Graduate Student
Conference on International History.
2006
“’A Powerful Italian Gasoline’”: The Production and Consumption of Agip
Gasoline in Postwar Italy, 1955-1965”, Association for the Study of Modern Italy
(ASMI) annual conference, London.
“’A Powerful Italian Gasoline’”: The Production and Consumption of Agip
Gasoline in Postwar Italy, 1955-1965”, Society for the History of Technology
(SHOT) annual meeting, Las Vegas.
2005
Organizer of the panel “Citizenship and Consumption in Postwar Italy,” Congress of
the Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCo), Bologna.
Paper presented: “Mass Consumption and Women’s Citizenship: the Case of the
Italian Communist Party, 1956-1965.”
“Cold War Domesticity: the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and Women’s
Consumption in Postwar Italy, 1956-1965”, UCSB-GWU-LSE International
Graduate Conference on the Cold War, University of California at Santa Barbara.
2003
Organizer of the panel “Photographs as Historical Sources,” Congress of
the Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCo), Lecce, Italy.
Paper presented: “Photography and Women’s History: the Representation of Black
Women in Italian Colonial Photographs.”
Invited Lectures
2015
“A Challenge to Cold War Oil Politics? ENI’s Relations with the Soviet Union, 19581981,” Oil, Gas and Pipelines: New Perspectives on the Role of Soviet Energy during the Cold
War, University of Zurich.
2014
Discussant, Historians Across Borders. Writing Other People’s Histories in a Global Age,
University of Bologna.
“Gender in Historical Research,” Rethinking Gender Studies, University of Trieste.
“Between Rights and Representations: LGBTQ Movements in the United States
from the 1970s to Today,” Italian-American Center, Trieste.
2013
“Interessi petroliferi internazionali e classi dirigenti nelle rivolte arabe,” Le radici delle
trasformazioni del mondo arabo, University of Florence.
“U.S. Oil Policies and Labor Relations in Libya during the Cold War, 1956-1969,”
European Oil and Gas Archives Network Conference, University of Aberdeen.
“Dallo spazio transatlantico allo spazio globale. Sviluppo economico e
modernizzazione durante la guerra fredda”, Storia atlantica e storia transatlantica tra
modernistica e contemporaneistica, University of Roma Tre.
“Fueling Modernization in a Transatlantic World: ENI's Oil Politics during the 1950s
and 1960s”, Europe and Energy. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Universiy of Padua.
2012
Discussant at the conference Nuclear Energy in Post-World War II Italy: Open Historical,
Cultural and Social Issues, University of Trieste.
“Building a Consumer Democracy: the Role of ENI in Postwar Italy,” Conference
Consumption, Well-Being and Political Legitimation in Italy between the 1960s and the 1990s,
University of Bologna.
“Energy Resources and Democracy in Contemporary History,” Department of
Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari.
2011
“Transnational Crossings: Intersections between Gender, Race and Sexuality in
Contemporary Italian Feminist Movements,” Conference From Generation to
Generation. Italian Women from Unification to the Present, University of Florence.
“New Feminisms: a Global Dimension?”, Course on Women, Politics, Institutions,
University of Trieste.
2010
“Writing Women’s Inter/Transnational History,” Department of Political Science,
University of Bologna.
“Do We Still Need Women’s History? Women’s and Gender History from an InterGenerational Perspective,” Fifth Congress of the Italian Women’s Historical
Association (SIS), Naples, Italy.
2008
“A Menacing Six-Legged Dog: the Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI) in the
Mediterranean during the Cold War,” at the conference The Cold War in the
Mediterranean: Connecting the Fronts, European Institute, Columbia University.
“Fueling the Cold War: Gasoline Production and Consumption in Post-World
War II Italy,” Center for the Study of the Cold War, New York University.
2007
“Building Consumer Democracies: the role of ENI in Postwar Italy,” at the
conference The Consumer Revolution: the American Model in Contemporary Italy, University
of Milan, Italy.
2000
“Politics of the Women’s Movement in Twentieth Century United States,” Seminar
on Women’s and Gender History, University of Bologna, Italy.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING
2014
University of Roma Tre.
Adjunct Professor for a 15-hour course on “The History of Women and Gender in
the United States, Post-1945.”
University of Trieste.
Lectures on “Early 20th Century Women’s Movements in the U.S.,” “The Cultural
Cold War,” and “Social Movements during the 1960s,” as part of the course on The
History of the United States.
University of Rome, Tor Vergata. School of Global Governance.
Cycle of lecures on “The Global Cold War.”
University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
Cycle of lectures for graduate students, on “Pratiche di scrittura. Scrivere un paper,
preparare un abstract, rispondere a un CFP.”
2013
University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
Adjunct Professor for a 30-hour course on “Eastern European History: the Cold
War Period.”
University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
Cycle of lectures for graduate students, on “Pratiche di scrittura. Scrivere un paper,
preparare un abstract, rispondere a un CFP.”
University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
Lecture on “La Società Italiana delle Storiche,” as part of the graduate seminar on
Gender impact: nuovi percorsi della storiografia.
University of Roma Tre.
Lecture on “Betty Friedan: dal Fronte Popolare al femminismo della seconda
ondata,” Graduate Seminar on Gender Studies.
2012
Max Weber Programme Teaching Certificate.
London School of Economics. Max Weber Program Teaching Exchange.
Lectures on “The Concept of Empire through History,” with Dr. Adrien Delmas.
University of Venice, Cà Foscari, Department of Comparative Linguistic and
Cultural Studies.
Lecture on “Italy’s Development Policies in the Mediterranean during the Cold War:
a Transnational Approach,” as part of a course on The History of International Relations.
University of Florence, Department of Political Science.
Lecture on “From Decolonization to the Cold War: Oil Politics in the
Mediterranean,” as part of a course on History of International Relations.
2011
European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization
Lecture on “Modernization Theories in the Cold War,” as part of the seminar New
Topics and Methods for International History in a Globalized World.
University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy.
Adjunct Professor for a course on “History of Food, Gender, and Consumer Culture
in Post-World War II Italy.”
2009- University of Naples “L’Orientale”
2011 Adjunct Professor for two 50-hour courses on “The History of the United States.”
Advisor for the following undergraduate theses: “The Representation of Women in
Post-World War II American Movies”; “Ida B. Wells and the Question of Lynching
in the United States after the Civil War;” “African-American Women after the Civil
War.”
2003- New York University.
2008 Teaching Assistant (TA) for the following courses: “Women and Gender in
American History Since 1865” (Fall 2003); “World War II” (Spring 2004); “Women
and Gender in Modern European History Since 1750” (Fall 2004); “Modern Britain”
(Spring 2005); “Consumption and Consumer Culture” (Fall 2007); “African
American History Since 1865” (Spring 2008).
2005
New York University.
Adjunct Professor for a course on “Post-1945 Europe.”
1998- Liceo Scientifico Spallanzani [Italian High Scool].
2000 History teacher. Course taught: “The History of the 20th Century.”
Liceo Scientifico Copernico [Italian High School].
History teacher. Course taught: “The History of Globalization.”
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2014-
Co-organizer of the national research group “The History of Nuclear Energy
in Italy: International and Comparative Perspectives.”
2014
Member of the Scientific Committee in charge of organizing the international
conference Storia d’Italia, Storia globale.
Co-organizer of the international conference Italy’s Nuclear Experience in an
International and Comparative Perspective, University of Trieste.
Co-organizer of the international conference Labor in the Oil Industry: New
Historical Perspectives, University of Padua.
Co-organizer of the Fifth European Oil and Gas Archives Network
conference Building Energy Histories, Maritime Museum, Rotterdam.
Co-organizer of the workshop Gendering the History of Libya: Transnational and
Feminist Approaches, 19-20th Centuries, Berkshire Conference on Women’s
History, Toronto.
Co-organizer of a cycle of events on the history of Italian energy policies,
Trieste Next. Salone europeo della ricerca scientifica.
Peer reviewer for the journals Enterprise & Society and Contemporanea, and for
the Associazione Italiana Studi Nord Americani.
2013-
Member of the Faculty Board of the Doctoral Program, University of Rome
Tor Vergata.
Member of the Teaching Staff of the B.A. in Global Governance, University
of Rome, Tor Vergata.
Member of the research group Global History, promoted by the Fondazione
Istituto Gramsci, Rome.
Member of the Web Editorial Board of the Società Italiana per lo Studio
della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCo).
2012-
Member of the Editorial Board of Italia Contemporanea
Member of the Board of Directors of the European Oil and Gas Archives
Network (EOGAN). Responsible for cultural and research centers.
2012-2013
Member of the Scientific Committee in charge of organizing the Sixth
Congress of the Italian Women’s Historical Association (SIS), University of
Padua and Venice.
2011-2013
Co-organizer of the conference Pivotal Year: the 1973 Oil Shock and its Global
Significance, Department of History and Civilization, European University
Institute.
2011-2012
Co-organizer of the Gender and Migration Working Group, European University
Institute.
2012
Peer reviewer for the Journal of Contemporary History and Aspasia.
2011
Co-organizer of the international conference Economic Aid and Development in
the Mediterranean from the Cold War to the Present, European University Institute,
Florence, May 2012.
Co-organizer of the conference Feminisms in the Mediterranean, Department of
Political Science, University of Bologna.
Co-organizer of the conference Lesbian History and LGBTQ Studies in Italy,
University of Florence.
Researcher at the Gramsci Institute in Rome for a research project on
Relations between the Italian Communist Party and the Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi
during the 1950s and 1960s.
2010
Co-organizer of the conference Crossing Borders. The Culture and Politics of Italian
Feminism, 1970s-1980s, Department of History, University of Roma Tre.
2009-2012
Member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Women’s Historical
Association (SIS).
2009-2011
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Genesis. Rivista della Società
Italiana delle Storiche.
2007-2011
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal 900. Per una storia del tempo
presente.
2008-2009
Graduate Assistant for the History of Women and Gender Seminar, New
York University.
2008
Peer reviewer for the journal Feminist Review.
2007
Member of the Scientific Committee in charge of organizing the Fourth
Congress of the Italian Women’s Historical Association (SIS), Department of
Political Science, University of Roma Tre.
2002-2006
Member of the Web Editorial Board of the Società Italiana per lo Studio
della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCo).
2006
Research Assistant for Professor Stanislao Pugliese, Archivio Centrale dello
Stato, Rome.
Research project: “Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2002
Photo editor for the French magazine Nouvel Observateur, Paris.
2000-2001
Photo editor and archivist for the photo agency Magnum Photos, Paris.
2000
paid intern at the photo agency Magnum Photos, Paris, as part of the
European project “Leonardo da Vinci.”
1999-2001
English language translator for the Italian historical journals Passato e Presente;
Novecento; and for the Gramsci Institute of the Emilia-Romagna region.
1997-1998
English language teacher at the Oxford Institute, Bologna, Italy.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Italian, mother tongue.
English, mother tongue.
French, very good, read, written and spoken.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Organization of American Historians (OAH)
American Historical Association (AHA)
Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCo)
Società Italiana delle Storiche (SIS)
Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani (AISNA)
European Public Relations History Network (EPRHN)