Luca Lecis (Cagliari 1975), Associate Professor of Contemporary History (Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage). In 2004 he received his PhD in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cagliari with a thesis entitled Catholic Church and civil society in Austria during the Allied Occupation. Junior researcher at Department of History of the same University, he received a grant for the research Italian Parties and their relationship with the civil society from Second Postwar to the 1970s (2006-2009). Research Fellow (2009-2011) and Senior Research Fellow (2011-2013) on the project Catholics and Christian Democrats in Italy and their Attitude towards Europe, since April 2014 is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Contemporary History. In 2015 he was Visiting Scholar at the Department of Global History at the University of Teheran and in 2016 at the Department of History at the University of Vienna.
His research activity has been directed in particular to the study of Austria and Austrian Society between war and post-war, to the relationship between the Church, the Catholic world, and both Austrian, and Italian Politics and Society since Mid-1950s, to the history, both political and social, of Sardinia after WWII (from the Fifties to the Eighties).
Among his publications: From Total Control to Independence. Austria in context of Cold War (2016), From Reconstruction to Rebirth Plan. Politics and Society in Sardinia 1949-1959 (2016), The construction of the nation-State in Austria (essay, 2014); Austria in the second postwar period (2013); Collateralism and Disengagement. Catholic Church and Catholics in Austria between Authoritarianism and Democracy (RHE, 2013); The Christian Democratic Party in Sardinia 1943-1949 (2012).