Rossella Pace

Expert in contemporary history, the Resistance, liberalism, and women's history

Role

Adjunct Professor of Contemporary History at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples. Secretary of the National Committee for the Celebrations of the Death of Giacomo Matteotti and of the National Committee for the Centenary of the Death of Giovanni Amendola. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Filippo Turati Foundation in Florence. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Poitiers.

Bio

After graduating with honors in History from Sapienza University of Rome, she earned a PhD in European History, completing research at the Fondation Charles de Gaulle in Paris. She collaborates with the Department of Documentary, Linguistic-Philological, and Geographical Sciences at Sapienza University, including as a MAGISTER fellow, and is currently pursuing her PhD in European History and postdoctoral research at the Sapienza Foundation.

She continues her academic work in contemporary history and international relations. She is a lecturer in Contemporary History at the Department of Humanities at Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, where she was a research fellow from 2022 to 2026. She is secretary-treasurer of the National Committee for the Celebrations of the Death of Giacomo Matteotti and the National Committee for the Celebrations of the Death of Giovanni Amendola. Since 2025, she has been on the Scientific Committee of the Filippo Turati Foundation in Florence.

Her research focuses on anti-fascism, the Resistance , and Italian liberalism, with a particular focus on the role of women's history and family and political networks. She has studied the Liberal Party, Edgardo Sogno's Franchi Organization, and the role of liberal women in the Resistance, publishing with Rubbettino: A Quiet Life, Liberal Partisans, and Liberals Have No Songs. In 2025, she published Via Gregoriana 5. Roman Liberal Elites from the Aventine to the Resistance (Franco Angeli 2025), winner of the Fiuggi Storia Prize in the Men and Stories category.