Researcher
Chiara Fantozzi
is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Pisa, in partnership with Fordham University, where she is visiting fellow at the History Department. Her current research project is titled “GIs and Segnorine: An Entangled History of Post-War Sex Work (1943-1954)”.
She obtained her PhD in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. She has been specializing in the history of crime in the second half of the 19th century and during the Allied military occupation of Italy from a social and cultural perspective, with special reference to gender, nation building, nationalism, marginality, and post-Fascist transition to democracy. Among her publications: “Seguire gli alleati: prostituzione e migrazioni femminili nell’Italia occupata”, in Fabio Amato (ed.), Genere, sesso, migrazione, DeriveApprodi, 2021; “Raccontare Tombolo. Prostituzione di guerra e confini della cittadinanza nella transizione alla democrazia”, The Italianist, no. 3 (2018); “L’onore violato: stupri, prostituzione e occupazione alleata (Livorno 1944-47)”, Passato e presente, no. 99 (2016).
Supervisors
Vinzia Fiorino
is Full Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Pisa, where she teaches courses on gender history and historical method topics.
She got her laurea from the University of Pisa, her DEA at the University Paris VII and her PhD in History and Civilization from the EUI (European University Institute – Florence). She has two main research areas: the relationship between gender and civil and political rights in France (she is the author of Il genere della cittadinanza. Diritti civili e politici in Francia 1789-1915, Roma, Viella, 2020). The second field is the history of madness and mental hospital internment in Italy (she has also written Matti, indemoniate e vagabondi. Dinamiche di internamento manicomiali 1850-1915, Venezia, Marsilio, 2002 and Le officine della follia. Il frenocomio di Volterra, 1888-1978, Pisa, ETS, 2011).
Silvana Patriarca
is Full Professor of Contemporary History at Fordham University, New York.
Her main body of work has focused on the cultural construction of the nation in modern Italy, and on the intersection between nation and race in post-fascist and postcolonial Italy. She is the author of Italian Vices. Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-editor with L. Ryall of The Risorgimento Revisited. Nationalism and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Italy (Basingstoke, Palgrave Mcmillan, 2012). She has been the chair of the Seminar in Modern Italian Studies at Columbia University (1997-2001), and she is member of the editorial committee for the journal Modern Italy. Her last book explores the untold story of the racialization of children born to Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War (Il colore della Repubblica. «Figli della Guerra e razzismo nell’Italia postfascista, Torino, Einaudi, 2021; English edition: Race in Post-Fascist Italy: ‘War Children’ and the Color of the Nation, Cambridge-New York, Cambridge University Press, 2022).