Role
Full Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Cagliari. She teaches Contemporary History and History of the Welfare State.
Bio
After graduating in Political Science from Sapienza University of Rome in 1979 and in Religious Sciences from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1989, she earned a doctorate in History of Political Movements in 1988 and a postdoctoral fellowship from Roma Tre University in 1992. Since 2005, she has been a full professor of contemporary history at the University of Cagliari. From 2010 to 2015, she was president of the Political Science degree program. From 2015 to 2018, she was director of the Department of Political and Social Sciences.
Her research focuses primarily on the social, educational, and economic history of contemporary Italy, with a particular focus on the history of the family and women in the Church and the Catholic movement between the second half of the 19th and the 20th centuries. She has also studied new interpretations of Italian colonialism and its impact on contemporary life, and the history of the economic and entrepreneurial ruling classes, along with their families, across generations.
He has developed public history activities and led a Public History Workshop at the University of Cagliari. In 2026, he participated in the 8th National Conference of the Italian Association of Public History with a presentation on history teaching.