Editorial Team
Editor in Chief
Lorenzo Costaguta University of Bristol, United Kingdom
lorenzo.costaguta [at] bristol.ac.uk https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/lorenzo-costaguta
Lorenzo Costaguta is a Lecturer in US History at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a scholar of race and class in the global socialist left. He is the author of “Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism” (University of Illinois Press, 2023). He held visiting fellowships at the John H. Kluge Center, Library of Congress (2023) and the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library (2015). He is currently working on a project on race and imperialism in the Second International (1889-1914)
Angela Santese Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5637-5317 angela.santese3 [at] unibo.it https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/angela.santese3/en
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
Federico Chiaricati
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3247-4529 federico.chiaricati [at] unipr.it https://sea.unipr.it/en/ugov/person/259006
Federico Chiaricati is postdoc researcher at the University of Parma. He received the best PhD thesis award by the Associazione Studi Nordamericani (2021 edition) for his thesis on Italian American food consumption between XIXth and XXth Century. He received research grants by Istituto Parri - Bologna Metropolitana and Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri for project regarding the history of fascism and transitional justice. He collaborates with the Comitato Regionale per le Onoranze ai Caduti di Marzabotto. His research interests focus mainly on the history of consumption, the history of Italian Americans and the United States and the history of fascism.
Alice Ciulla Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3726-4603 alice.ciulla [at] uniroma3.it https://scienzepolitiche.uniroma3.it/persone/UEFPUFV2R2RpdlJKY091VjVSSWJuZVppaGZqdkFTd1ZITHhHQVAwNm9VMD0=/
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.
Giulia Crisanti Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” / Università degli Studi di Pisa
giuliacrisanti46 [at] gmail.com https://research.uniroma1.it/researcher/1862b0a2f3b9cb4522ed0206843ed4156bcf8728fcfa036dc97fabfc
Giulia Crisanti holds a PhD in Modern History from Fordham University. She is a post-doc researcher at the University La Sapienza in Rome, where she is taking part in the project “ATLas Atlante delle Televisioni Locali (PRIN 2020). Previously, she worked as a research fellow at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, within the project “Transatlantic Transfers: The Italian Presence in Postwar America” (PRIN 2017). She is an adjunct lecturer in U.S. History at the University of Pisa. Her research interests include the history of Italy-U.S. relations and cultural exchanges, studies of business history, the history of Americanization and globalization, media history, and food history. Her book Europeans Are Lovin’it? Coca Cola, McDonald’s and Responses to American Global Businesses in Italy and France, 1886-2015 (BRILL 2023) received the “Rob Kroes Publication Award.” With Simone Cinotto, she edited the volume Un oceano di stile: Produzione e consumo di Made in Italy negli Stati Uniti del dopoguerra (Mimesis 2023).
Marta Gara Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy
marta.gara [at] unicatt.it
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.
Chiara Migliori Università degli Studi di Bergamo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4595-7650 chiara.migliori [at] unibg.it
Chiara Migliori is a researcher at the University of Bergamo where she teaches contemporary history and studies the relationship between rightwing politicians and religious (Christian) activists in Italy and in Europe. The results of the research project she conducted as a PhD student at the Freie Universitaet Berlin were published in a book titled Religious Rhetoric in US Right-Wing Politics: Donald Trump, Intergroup Threat and Nationalism (Palgrave 2022). Her second book is titled Il paese di Dio: Religione, politica e società negli Stati Uniti (Biblion Edizioni 2023).
Serena Mocci Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
serena.mocci [at] unibo.it
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.
Emanuele Monaco
Emanuele Monaco obtained his PhD in Modern History from the University of Bologna, with a thesis on Jean Monnet’s transatlantic network and its effect on European and U.S. foreign policy. He was a Visiting Scholar at New York University and the London School of Economics and a Visiting Researcher at the Harry Truman Presidential Library. His research and published works focus on U.S. History, Transatlantic Relations and Queer History. He also authored several articles for the general public on American history and politics. He writes and authors the column Status Queer for the Italian magazine Jefferson – Lettere sull’America.
Emanuele Nidi Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3244-0222 emanuele.nidi [at] unior.it
Emanuele Nidi is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Naples L’Orientale. He obtained his Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Naples L’Orientale in 2023 with a dissertation on W.E.B. Du Bois and the Second Pan-African Congress of 1921. His research interests include Black nationalism, Pan-African movements, and the debate on violent self-defense in the struggle against white supremacy in the United States.
Matteo Rossi Fondazione Luigi Einaudi - Torino
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4553-5095 matteo.rossi [at] unito.it
Matteo Rossi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi in Torino. In 2023 he obtained his Ph.D. in Global History of Empires from the University of Torino, defending a dissertation titled The Obstacles to Capital. Henry Carey’s Political Economy in 19th-Century U.S. History. He is adjunct professor of U.S. history at the Department of Languages, Foreign Literatures and Modern Culture of the University of Torino. His broader research interests include the history of U.S. economic and political thought, the history of U.S. capitalism and the history of slavery.
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5459-4404 brunowalter.toscano [at] unive.it
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano is a postdoctoral fellow at Ca’Foscari University of Venice, where he is involved in the ERC project titled “WO-NAM”. His primary research focuses on grassroots criticism of the Neo-Malthusianist movement in the United States during the Cold War, approached through a transnational and intersectional lens. His broader research interests encompass African American history, the transnational history of women of color in the U.S., and the history of Reproductive Rights. Currently, he is working on a forthcoming book on the long history of the Third World Women’s Alliance, one of the pivotal organizations in the Black Feminist movement.
Former Editors
Matteo Battistini Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7238-5470 m.battistini [at] unibo.it https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/m.battistini/cv-en
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.
Alberto Benvenuti U.S Embassy to Italy
Cristina Bon Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy
cristina.bon@unicatt.it cristina.bon [at] unicatt.it https://docenti.unicatt.it/ppd2/en/docenti/21820/cristina-bon/profilo
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.
Francesca Cadeddu Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia/Fondazione per le scienze religiose, Italy
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0214-1734 cadeddu [at] fscire.it http://www.fscire.it/index.php/en/who-we-are/researchers/francesca-cadeddu/
Francesca Cadeddu is a post-doc researcher in Contemporay History at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and affiliated to Fondazione per le scienze religiose (Bologna), where she works on the history of Christianity in Europe and the United States in the 20th century. Her research interests focus on the history of secularisation in Europe and the United States and its relationship with religious illiteracy. More recently, she started enquiring the role of faith in Methodist social action in the early 20th century.
Gaetano Di Tommaso Roosevelt Institute for American Studies
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8168-7080 g.di.tommaso [at] roosevelt.nl https://sciences-po.academia.edu/gaetanoditommaso
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.
Annalisa Mogorovich Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3378-0800 giuliano.santangelivalenzani [at] uniroma3.it https://www.uniroma3.it/persone/Zll4MlUvRk1Rb1NSQmRJOFVLdW1kZmIwVXF1TXZsTkRSVXgvcXVrWm9rWT0=/
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.
Bruno Settis Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa/Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2937-4749 bruno.settis [at] sns.it https://sns.academia.edu/BrunoSettis
Bruno Settis holds a master’s degree from the University of Pisa and a PhD degree from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and from the Center for History at Sciences Po, Paris (March 2019). He is now researcher at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. His research deals with the circulation and imitation of mass production technologies and models of labour relations, from the early twentieth century to the late 1960s, by combining the micro level of the workplace with a transatlantic macro framework.
