Role
Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Cagliari.
Bio
After graduating in Modern Literature in 2005, she earned a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Cagliari. During the same period, until 2010, she worked as an archivist and researcher at the Libyan Studies Center in Tripoli, where she participated in the project to establish the National Archives. Between 2012 and 2018, she was a research fellow in Cagliari and then at the University of Bologna; meanwhile, she taught History of Mediterranean Countries at the University of Macerata. Since 2018, she has continued her academic career in Cagliari, where she is now an associate professor of Contemporary History.
His research analyzes the role of colonialism in the formation of Italian national identity, with a particular focus on fascism and the cultural dimension of the expansionist project. He has also explored the continuities between the Fascist period and the Italian Republic, studying the construction of the concepts of identity and otherness and racism in public discourse.
From the same perspective, he has studied the historical origins of Italian multicultural society, focusing on postcolonial migration and citizenship policies, including from a comparative European perspective. His monographs include Africa at Home (2015), The Motherland is a Foreign Land (2017), and History of Italian Colonialism. Politics, Culture, and Memory from the Liberal Age to the Present Day (2024, with A. Pes).