About Us Teaching staff

Teaching staff

Nura ABDELMOHSEN SHEHATA MEKHAEL

_{PhD candidate in Contemporary history, Sagas Department}

_{nura.abdelmohsen@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Holocaust studies; Museum studies; Public history}

Maria Emanuela ALBERTI

_{Associate professor in Aegean studies, Sagas Department}

_{mariaemanuela.alberti@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Bronze Age Aegean; public archaeology}

Giorgio BACCI

_{Associate professor in History of Contemporary Art, Sagas Department}

_{giorgio.bacci@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Contemporary art; Visual arts; Cultural studies; relationship between art and literature; history of migrations, borders and identities in Contemporary art}

Stefano BOTTONI

_{Associate Professor in Contemporary Eastern Europe, SAGAS Department}

_{stefano.bottoni@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Global history; transition studies; politics of memory in post-authoritarian systems; Cold war; nationality policies; public history}

Panagiotis BOURLESSAS

_{Senior Research fellow in Geography, Sagas Department}

_{panagiotis.bourlessas@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Social and Cultural geographies; Visual methods; Urban ethnography; marginality; retail gentrification; mobilities}

Luca CAPPUCCINI

_{Associate professor in Etruscology and Italic Antiquities, Sagas Department}

_{luca.cappuccini@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Classis Archaelogy and Etruscology; history of Ancient Tuscany}

Corin Sweety DEINHART

_{PhD and contract professor in Public history, Sagas Department}

_{corin.deinhart@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Public history; Visual history; genocides history; photography; Museum studies}

Antonella D’OVIDIO

_{Associate professor in Musicology, SAGAS Department}

_{antonella.dovidio@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Italian instrumental music of the 17th-18th centuries; musical patronage of patrician families; 18th century Italian opera and Italian music criticism in the 19th century; History and identity}

Monica GALFRÉ

_{Associate professor in Contemporary history, Sagas Department.}

_{monica.galfre@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: History of Contemporary Italy; History of school and education; History of the publishing; Violence and terrorism; History of fascism}

Valeria GALIMI

_{Associate professor in Contemporary history, Sagas Department}

_{valeria.galimi@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: history of Contemporary France; antisemitism and fascism in Europe; intellectuals in interwar period; IIWW and the Holocaust; public history}

Cristiano GIOMETTI

_{Associate professor in History of Modern Art, SAGAS Department}

_{cristiano.giometti@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: history of art collecting; history of art exhibitions; history of sculpture; cultural history; Cultural heritage; public history}

Emanuele GIUSTI

_{Research fellow in Modern History, SAGAS Department}

_{emanuele.giusti@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: history of orientalism; travel literature; history of historiography; Enlightenment; history of Iran}

Mirella LODA

_{Full professor in Geography, SAGAS Department}

_{mirella.loda@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Social geography; international cooperation; Urban development and sustainable tourism; Cultural landscape}

Ida Gilda MASTROROSA

_{Associate professor in Roman History, Florence University}

_{idagilda.mastrorosa@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Roman historiography; Family and women’s juridical status in Rome; interpretations of Roman History in Modern Culture; representation of ancient Rome history on the web; public history}

Igor MELANI

_{Associate professor in Modern History, Sagas Department}

_{igor.melani@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Early-modern European History; History of the Renaissance; Cultural history; history of mentalities; public history}

Rolando MINUTI

_{Full professor of Modern history, Sagas Department}

_{rolando.minuti@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Modern European intellectual history; history of Enlightenment and the long 18th century; Orientalism; intercultural transfers in Early Modern age; relationships between web and history}

Michele NUCCIOTTI

_{Associate professor in Medieval Archaeology, Sagas Department}

_{michele.nucciotti@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Public Archaeology; Medieval rural settlement and landscape; historic building practices; Light archaeology; Computer archaeology; public history}

Monica PACINI

_{Associated professor in Contemporary history, Sagas Department}

_{monica.pacini@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Economic and social history; Women's and gender studies; Urban history; labour history; Cultural relations; history of journalism}

Maria PAIANO

_{Associate professor in History of Christianity and Churches, SAGAS Department}

_{maria.paiano@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: history of Catholicism; WW1; human rights; relationship between religion and modern societies}

Marina PUCCI

_{Associated professor in Near Eastern Archaeology at Sagas Department}

_{marina.pucci@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Late Bronze and Iron Ages (Syria and Anatolia); functional analysis of artefacts; Urban space; cultural contact/migration/technological transfer in conflict areas}

Nipesh Palata NARANAYAN

_{Research fellow, Sagas Department (LaGeS)}

_{nipesh.palatnarayanan@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Geography; Global history; Urban history; History of settlements; Planned urbanization}

Giovanna POTESTÀ

_{Contract professor of Geography and Urbanistic, Sagas Department}

_{giovanna.potesta@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Geography; Urban history; History of settlements; Planned urbanization; Urbanistic}

Matteo PUTTILLI

_{Associate professor in Geography, SAGAS Department}

_{matteogirolamo.puttilli@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Intangible cultural heritage and sustainable tourism; energy justice, environmental conflicts and alternative food networks; Urban marginality and socio-spatial justice; theory and practice of local and regional development}

Chiara RENZO

_{Research fellow in Contemporeary history, Venice University}

_{chiara.renzo@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: Holocaust studies, Jewish migration in the XXth century, Humanitarian studies, Fascism, Memory}

Francesco SALVESTRINI

_{Associate professor in Medieval History at SAGAS Department}

_{francesco.salvestrini@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: history of ecclesiastical institutions and of municipal statutes; Environment history; social history of Tuscany in the communal period; the cultural heritage of the Medieval era in the Contemporary age; public history}

Tiziana SERENA

_{Associate professor in Contemporary history art at Sagas Department}

_{tiziana.serena@unifi.it}

_{Research fields: History of Photography; photographic archive; public history; Contemporary landscape}

Francesca TACCHI

_{Associate professor in Contemporary History at SAGAS Department}

_{francesca.tacchi@unifi.it}

_{Reserch fields: Global history; transition studies; gender history; history of journalism and travel literature; public history; history and cinema; history of sport}