Role
Full Professor of Medieval History and Advisor for Internationalization at the Rector's Office of the University of Padua.
Bio
In 1980, she graduated in Literature from the University of Turin with honors and publication honors. She earned a PhD in History from the University of Birmingham and a PhD in the History of Medieval Society. After a period as a fellow at the University of Turin, she became a researcher in Medieval History at the University of Padua in 1990; she became an associate professor in 1998 and a full professor in 2005. She has held coordination roles in doctoral training and is an advisor for internationalization at the Rectorate of the University of Padua.
Her research focuses on the Early Middle Ages , migration , family , and women's history, analyzed through written and archaeological sources. She also studies medieval urban planning, ethnicity, memory, and early medieval cities. Her most recent scholarly work continues to develop these themes from a European perspective, with particular attention to mobility, identities, and social dynamics in the Early Middle Ages.