Editorial Team
Journal Manager
Matteo Battistini Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
Matteo Battistini is associate professor in American History and Politics at University of Bologna. His research interests are mainly directed to intellectual and political history of the United States, history of social sciences and political thought. Currently, His research focuses on the rise and crisis of the American middle class and the role played by social sciences from New Deal to the Cold War. He was editor-in-chief of USAbroad-Journal of American History and Politcs (2018-2020). Currently, he is member of the Editorial Board of USAbroad-Journal of American History and Politics and the Editorial Board of Ricerche di Storia Politica. He is author of numerous publications on important Italian and foreign journals and books.
Editors in Chief
Lorenzo Costaguta University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Lorenzo Costaguta is a Lecturer in US History at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a scholar of race and class with a specialisation in American and European socialism. He has published on racial thought in US socialism during the Gilded Age and is currently working on a project on race, imperialism and colonialism in the Second International (1889-1914).
Angela Santese Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
Angela Santese is adjunct professor of US Foreign Policy since 1945. She earned her PhD in Contemporary History from the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Bologna. In 2012 she was junior visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center of Washington, DC. She won the SISSCO Prize awarded by Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History for the best 2016 research monograph. In 2017 she won the Postgraduate Vibeke Sorensen Grant from the Historical Archives of the European Union. Her research interests deal with U.S. foreign policy, Cold War history and the history of antinuclear and environmental movements.
Editorial Board
Cristina Bon Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy
Cristina Bon is Associate Professor in History of Political Institutions at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Milan, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. Her current research interests are focused on two main topics: on the one hand, the historical development of US presidential powers and prerogatives, as well as the relations between the Office of the President and the other main constitutional bodies; on the other, the Civil War Era, with specific regard to the sectional conflicts as well as the secession conventions.
Alice Ciulla Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Alice Ciulla is post-doctoral researcher in U.S. History at Roma Tre University. She has been fellow of the Istituto Antonio Gramsci Foundation and DAAD research fellow at the Freie Universität of Berlin. Her research focuses on U.S.-Italian relations during the cold war and especially on American views of the Italian “communist question” in the 1970s. She is currently working on a new project on the cultural relations between the United States and Italy at the beginning of the XX century.
Gaetano Di Tommaso Roosevelt Institute for American Studies
Gaetano Di Tommaso is a postdoctoral researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in the Netherlands and chercheur associé at the Centre for History at Sciences Po. He specializes in U.S. energy policy and security and held fellowships from Brown University, Northwestern University, and the Kluge Center at the U.S Library of Congress. He is currently working toward a project that explores the environmental and human health impacts of the oil industry in the Progressive Era and the interwar years.
Marta Gara Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy
Marta Gara holds a Ph.D. in Institutions and Politics from Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Milan, Italy. She was William P. Heidrich Fellow at University of Michigan and Visiting Research Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Her main research interests are theory and practice of participatory democracy, American political development and post-1945 social movements.
Serena Mocci Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
Serena Mocci holds a Ph.D. in U.S. political and intellectual history from the University of Bologna. Her doctoral research focused on the connection that, in the first half of the nineteenth century, existed between American women reformers, the sphere of domesticity and the process of construction and expansion of the U.S. empire. Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, USA) and at the Centre for Gender History of Glasgow University (Scotland, UK). In 2019 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of History of Columbia University (New York City, USA). Her main research interests include U.S. women’s political culture in the nineteenth century, American transcendentalism, women abolitionists and the relationship between women and the American empire.
Matteo Rossi Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Matteo Rossi is a Ph.D. candidate in Global History of Empires at the University of Torino, where he is working on a dissertation on Henry Charles Carey’s political economy within the context of nineteenth-century U.S. capitalist development and State building. In January 2021, he was Short-term Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia. In Fall 2021, he was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Department of History. His broad research interests lie at the croassroads between the history of economic and political thought, the history of capitalism and working-class history.
Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani is adjunct professor of History of the United States at the University of RomaTre. His research interests are mainly focused on the history and culture of the U.S. South and the history of American tourism. Currently, his research focuses on the promotion of Italian tourism in the United States during the 1950s.
Former Editors
Alberto Benvenuti U.S Embassy to Italy
Annalisa Mogorovich Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
Francesca Cadeddu Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia/Fondazione per le scienze religiose, Italy
Bruno Settis Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa/Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris