Role
Full Professor of Modern History and Vice Rector of the University of Catania. President of the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania and former Vice President of the Teatro Stabile di Catania.
Bio
She graduated in Political Science from the University of Catania in 1992 and obtained a PhD in Modern History from the same university in 1998. She has been a researcher since 2003, becoming an associate professor in 2006 and a full professor in the Department of Humanities since 2016.
Throughout her career, she has held numerous university governance positions and was coordinator of the Humanities and Social Sciences department at the Graduate School of the University of Catania. Since September 2025, she has been Vice-Rector of the University of Catania. She is an academic correspondent of the Royal Academy of History in Madrid and a member of the scientific committee of the Doctorate in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She also directs the Center for the History of Power (CHISPO) of the Giarrizzo Foundation - University of Catania.
Her research focuses on modern history, the political and cultural history of the European aristocracy, urban history, and socio-religious history, with particular attention to the relationships between civil and ecclesiastical institutions and forms of power in modern Europe. She has also studied the history of historiography, development, the environment, and contemporary migration.