Role
Professor of Asian History and Institutions, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University, Venice.
Bio
He graduated in Literature at the University of Florence with a thesis on contemporary history and continued his studies in London, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 2004 at University College London .
She returned to Italy where she began to collaborate with the University of Venice, first as a contract lecturer, then as a research fellow (from 2007) and then as a permanent researcher (from 2011).
As a scholarship holder, post-doc and/or visiting scholar, she has been a guest of universities and research centres in the USA ( Brown University , American Jewish University ), in the UK ( University of Oxford , Institute of Historical Research , London), in France (INALCO), Israel ( Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Centre de Recherche Francais à Jérusalem), China (University of Nanjing).
Since 2004 he has also taught at New York University in Florence.
He has worked on various topics and lines of research in the social history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and maintains a very active research agenda. His interests include the history of medicine and public health in British Mandate Palestine, Israeli cinema, nonviolence and civil resistance in Israel and Palestine, and military conscientious objection in Israel.