May 2024 – April 2025 : Return CH Postdoc.Mobility (SNSF), Postdoc, Historisches Seminar, Universität Zürich
May 2022 – April 2024 : Postdoc.Mobility (SNSF), Postdoc.
2023 – 2024: Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre d’Histoire, Sciences Po Paris.
2022 – 2023: Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU).
2016 – 2021: PhD in International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
Mitgliedschaft | Membership
Agricultural History Society (2019-)
American Society for Environmental History (2022-)
European Society for Environmental History (2022-)
Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (2018-)
Italian Society for Historical Studies (2022-)
Forschungsschwerpunkte | Research themes
Agrarian modernization
Climate history
Green Revolution
Fascism
Agroecology
Drylands
Awards
Society for Italian Historical Studies Article (SIHS) Prize for Modern Italian History Prize (2022).
Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award for the best article in “Agricultural History” published in 2022, awarded by the Agricultural History Society.
Gilbert C. Fite Dissertation Award for the best PhD Dissertation on Agricultural History, awarded by the Agricultural History Society.
Pierre du Bois Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Pierre Du Bois Foundation and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
Publikationen | Publications
“The Fascist Green Revolution”, Plants, People, Planet, Special Issue: “The history of crop science and the future of food”, ed. Helen Anne Curry and Ryan Nehring. (Early View, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10386
“Batallas del trigo: ciencia y semillas de Italia a América Latina”, La Jornada del Campo 195 (2023): 7. Link
Review of Marci Baranski, The Globalization of Wheat A Critical History of the Green Revolution (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022). “Environmental History”, v. 28, no. 4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1086/726417
Review forum on Natalie Koch, Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia (Verso Books, 2022), “Political Geography” (2023, Early View). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103010
“How to Feed an Empire? Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming, and Wheat Autarky in Italian-occupied Ethiopia (1937-1941), Agricultural History, v. 96, no. 3 (2022): 379-416. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9825310
“Microcosms of Colonial Development: Italian and Ethiopian Farmers at the Crossroads of Fascist Empire Building (1937-1941)”, Contemporanea, v. 24, no. 1 (2021): 79-101. DOI: 10.1409/100257
Review of Felicitas Becker, The Politics of Poverty: Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania, (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 20/10/2020. URL: <www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationreview/id/reb-29564>.
