POSITION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Habilitated to the rank of full professor in History of Political Thought (June 2023)

Associate professor in (SSD/14 B2.), University of Cagliari (March 2019).

'Affiliate Researcher' in The Centre of Gender History of the University of Glasgow (2016)

Assistant Professor in History of Political Thought, University of Cagliari (December 2011).

'Research Collaborator' in the Department of Italian-University of Bristol (2006-2007)

PhD in 'Political Thought and Women's issues’ - University of Roma Tre (2006).

Degree in Political Sciences, historical-political-international focus, University of Cagliari. Vote: 110 cum laude (2001)

INTERESTS OF RESEARCH:

Human rights

Debate on democracy during the XIX century in Europe

Utopian Socialism

Republicanism

Scottish Enlightenment

TEACHING:

History of Human Rights, Ideas and Policies (Master’s degree); History of Political Thought (Bachelor’s degree) in the Department of Political and Social Sciences (University of Cagliari)

PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS:

Team member of the project “L'Atlante digitale della storia marittima della Sardegna” (10-19-2021/2024).

Team member of the project “L'impatto delle “fake news” sulla propaganda e sulla diplomazia pubblica degli Stati nei contesti europeo, americano e asiatico” (02-21-2019/ 12-31-2021)

Team member of the project “Soft Power of the Press. Media and Internet over the International and Domestic Policies of the States” (03-14-2018 / 09-13-2020)

PI of the project “Idee e immagini della Sardegna nel mondo americano (XVIII-XX secolo)” (06-10-2014/12-31-2016)

EDITORIAL MEMBERSHIP

Member of the scientific committee of the series "Filologia e Politica" published by Giappichelli. - https://www.giappichelli.it/bookshelf/serie/view/code/FIP/ (2016)

Member of editorial board of the Journal (A) «Storia e Politica-https://www.editorialescientifica.com/shop/catalogo-riviste/riviste-open-access/storia-e-politica.html (2014)

Member of the University Association for Women's Studies (Audem -association universitaria de estudios de las mujeres) - http://audemasociacion.es/ (2022)

Member of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy - https://www.asmi.org.uk/ (2021)

Member of the Interdepartmental Centre for Digital Humanities (dh.uniCa.it) of the University of Cagliari. (https://dh.unica.it/ambiti/) (2020)

MAIN PUBLICATION

MONOGRAPHS:

From the Scottish Enlightenment to Owenism. The Ideal Path of Frances Wright, Naples, Editoriale Scientifica, 2017, pp. 134, ISBN 978-88-9391-094-1

Giuseppe Mazzini: Democracy and Women's Rights (1837-1860), Florence, Centro Editoriale Toscano, 2010, pp. 203; ISBN:978-88-7957-319-1.

The political itinerary of Regina Terruzzi. Dal mazzinianesimo al fascismo, Milan, FrancoAngeli Editore, 2008, pp. 352. ISBN: 9788856803389

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS:

Utopian Socialism in Britain, in L. Moland, A.L. Stone (eds),  The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century, 18 July 2023, The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.001.0001,Online ISBN: 9780197558928 Print ISBN: 9780197558898

L’opinione pubblica e gli esuli nella Gran Bretagna del XIX secolo. Il “letter opening affair” di Mazzini sulle pagine del Times. In Giorgio Barberis, Andrea Catanzaro Annarita Gabellone Carlo Morganti, Stefano Quirico, Andrea Serra (a cura di), Identità in transito, Città di Castello: Ronzani Edizioni Scientifiche 2023, pp. 187-205.

En busca de la igualdad real: la crìtica a la institucion del matrimonio en las obras de los pensadores britanicos del siglo XIX, in José García Fernández, Giuliana Antonella Giacobbe, Rocío Riestra Camacho, MISOGINIA Y FILOGINIA: Fuerzas discursivas simbólicas en la narrativa internacional, Madrid, Editorial DYKINSON, 2022, pp. 89-110. ISBN: 978-84-1122-640-0

Il New Moral World di Robert Owen. Un modello per affrontare la pandemia?, «Storia e Politica», a. XIV, 2022, pp. 30-65.

'Fake News' as an instrument of political delegitimisation: Orsini, Mazzini and the assassination attempt on Napoleon III, in G. Borzoni, B. Onnis, C. Rossi (Eds), Beyond Fake News. Governments, press and disinformation through international history, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2021, pp. 29-46.

La liberazione delle donne dalla schiavitù dell’onore: il progetto repubblicano di Frances Wright, in Giorgio Barberis, Andrea Catanzaro, Federica Falchi, Carlo Morganti, Stefano Quirico, Andrea Serra (a cura di), Libertà, uguaglianza e sicurezza: un dilemma classico nella storia del pensiero politico, Ronzani editore, Vicenza, 2020, pp. 87-103;

Mickiewicz e Fuller: Un’amicizia repubblicana, «Il Pensiero Mazziniano», Maggio-Agosto, 2020, pp. 46-63.

Mazzini, Mickiewicz e Fuller: democrazia e questione sociale (1830-1850), «Storia e politica» Anno XII n. 2 Maggio - Agosto 2020, pp. 266-300.

La riforma penale tra Europa e America. Lo sguardo sincretico di Frances Wright (1818-1821) in Anna Rita Gabellone e Patricia Chiantera-Stutte (a cura di) Stato e cittadinanza: nascita e crisi della modernità, Lecce, Milella, 2020, pp. 191-205.

Da Aristotele a Condorcet, De Gouges e Wollstonecraft: donne e cittadinanza, un mancato incontro, in S. Benussi, Società e politica: l'impegno delle donne tra assenza e presenza nelle istituzioni, Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2019, pp. 14-36; ISBN 978-88-9391-594-6

All’origine della repubblica democratica. Il ruolo delle donne nella redazione della costituzione italiana, in S. Benussi, Società e politica: l'impegno delle donne tra assenza e presenza nelle istituzioni, Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2019, pp. 59-101, ISBN 978-88-9391-594-6

Nashoba: turning an ideal into a concrete reality in A. Catanzaro, F. Falchi and S. Lagi (edited by), Monisms and Pluralisms in the History of Political and Social Models. Roma, Epokè, 2018, pp. 93-112, ISBN 978-88-99647-80-3

Frances Wright: Liberty as a founding principle of Republican America, in A. Catanzaro, S. Lagi (a cura di), Monism and Pluralism in the History of Political Thought, Roma, Epokè, 2016, pp. 69-83, ISBN: 978-88-99647-11-7

Anna Wheeler e William Thompson. Rapporti e influenze fra il cooperativismo inglese e il cooperativismo francese, in C. Giurintano, Pensiero cristiano, questione sociale e liberalismo e liberalismo in Francia nel XIX secolo. Atti del Seminario internazionale (Palermo, 30-31 ottobre 2014), Palermo, Supplemento a «Storia e politica» -Anno V- 2015, pp. 374-407, ISBN: 978-88-940096-1-3.

Beyond national borders; ‘Italian’ Patriots United in the Name of Giuseppe Mazzini: Emilie Ashurst, Margaret Fuller and Jessie White Mario, in «Women’s History Review», vol 23 (4) 2014, DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2014.920672, ISSN 1747583X

Democracy and the rights of women in the thinking of Giuseppe Mazzini, in «Modern Italy», Routlege Taylor & Francis Group, Abington (Uk), gennaio 2012, pp. 15-30. ISSN: 1353-2944

John Stuart Mill and Salvatore Morelli: language as a social tool in nineteenth-century Britain and Italy. Co-author: M. Giordano. In Langer N., S. Davies & W. Vandenbussche (eds.)Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography. Interdisciplinary Approaches. Studies In Historical Linguistics, Volume 9. Peter Lang, ISBN 978-3-0343-0761-1 pb. pp. 465-482, 2012.

Please see document attached for a complete list of publications and talks.