Associate Professor
HIST-03/A Storia contemporanea
enrico.acciai@uniroma2.it
Positions held
2019: Associate Professor, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen
2016-18: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, School of History, University of Leeds
2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Centro Alti Studi Euaristos
2011-12: Postdoctoral Fellow, Departamento de Historia Moderna y Contemporanea, Universidad de Cantabria
2011: Research Fellow, DISTU, Università degli Studi della Tuscia
2010-11: Research Fellow, Fondazione Luigi Salvatorelli
2010: PhD Research Fellow, EHEHI, Casa de Velazquez
Education
2010: PhD in Modern European History, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Doctor Europeaus Title
2005: Laurea (BA+MA) Modern History, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Teaching Positions
2021: Visiting Fellow, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute
2021: Visiting Fellow, Remarque Institute, New York University (postponed due covid-19 to 2023)
2020: Visiting Researcher, Oxford Centre for European History, University of Oxford (postponed due to COVID-19)
2018-19: Visiting Research Fellow, School of History, University of Leeds
2018-19: Adjunct Professor, Vicepresidenza della Scuola di Scienze Politiche, Università di Bologna
2015: Sorensen Fellowship, Historical Archives of the European Union
2013-14: Visiting Fellow, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute
Awards
2019-22: Carlsberg foundation special research project award [as Co-Pi, 2.6 milion DKK]
2011: Research Award, Associazione “Casa Di Vittorio”
Fields of research
Social History, Transnational History, Global History, War Volunteering, Exile, History from Below, European Modern History, 19th and 20th Century Italy, 19th and 20th Century Spain, European Antifascism, Anarchism
Editorial boards
Since 2021: Novecento.org, member of the Editorial Board
Since 2021: Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri, member of the Management Board [CdA]
Since 2020: Colleción Historia, Editorial Universidad de Cantabria, member of the Editorial Board
Since 2020: Center for European Studies – University of Verona, member of the Executive Board
Since 2019: Spagna Contemporanea, member of the Editorial Board
Peer Reviewer for the following journals
Bloomsbury
Cercles
Contemporary European History
Diacronie
European History Quarterly
Il mestiere di Storico
Manchester University Press
Memoria y Sociedad
Officina della Storia
Studi Storici
War History
Research training and grants
2018: Early Career Research Found, School of History, University of Leeds
2017: Conference grant, “Fascism and Antifascism in our time – critical investigations”, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
2017: Early Career Research Found, School of History, University of Leeds
2016-18: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, European Commission
2011-12: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ministerio de Educación – Gobierno de España (Estancias de jóvenes doctores extranjeros en universidades públicas y centros de investigación españoles)
2008: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellowship, European Commission
Selected international colloquia and papers
Traiettorie di antifascisti italiani in Spagna: da GL agli anarchici. “Profili, generazioni e spazi nella vicenda dell’antifascismo europeo: Giustizia e Libertà e l’esperienza di Mario Levi e Renzo Giua” (Verona, 14 October 2021, Università di Verona)
Transnational Garibaldinism and the Anti-fascist Struggle. “Civil Wars in History c. 1500 – 2000” (Dublin, 10-11 September 2021, University College Dublin)
A Global Approach to Transnational War Volunteering, “History of War Seminar Series” (Oxford, 16 June 2021, University of Oxford)
El antifascismo como motor resistente. Desde España hacia Europa, Resistencia(s), “Experiencias transnacionales de lucha: De la guerra civil española a la Segunda guerra mundial” (Zaragoza, 04 December 2019, Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad)
Veterans of the IB after the Spanish Civil War, “Veteran Politics in Europe Workshop” (Manchester, 17 June 2019, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Transnational war volunteering and political radicalism. A Mediterranean perspective (1870 – 1914), “Global History from the South. Italian and Iberian perspectives on the 19th and 20th centuries”, (Florence, 26-27 October 2018, EUI)
Nuevas Naciones en Armas? El papel de los voluntaries en la construcción de las naciones europeas, “VII Seminario Taller y oficio de la Historia “Estado y Nación en América Latina y Europa del Sur: Instituciones, Sentidos y Disidencias” (Bogotá, 9-10 august 2018, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)
‘Transnational War Volunteering and Political Radicalism in Southern Europe, 1861-1936’, “Foreign Fighters and multinational armies from civil conflicts to coalition war, 1848-1999”, (Paris, 28 June 2018, Sciences Po)
Into action: understanding the dynamics of resistance in times of war and repression, international workshop at the “NIOD – Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies” (Amsterdam, 21-22 June 2018, NIOD)
Freedom to Amilcare Cipriani! An “anarcho-republican” campaign in Liberal Italy (1881 – 1888), “European Social Science History Conference” (Belfast, 4-7 April 2018, International Institute of Social History)
A Transnational Volunteer: The Life of Amilcare Cipriani between Garibaldinism and Radicalism, “The Nineteenth-Century Research Group, Research seminars 2017-2018” (Lincoln, 9 November 2017, University of Lincoln)
A School of Anti-Fascism. Internment, Cultural Life and Education in the French Camps, 1939 – 1941, “Revolutionary Experiences: Transforming the personal and the political in wars against fascism, 1936 – 1949” (Exeter, 7 July 2017, University of Exeter).
Albanian antifascist fighters: from the Spanish Civil War to the European resistance movements, “From the Spanish Civil War to World War II. Trajectories of transnational antifascist volunteers” (Leeds, 29 June 2017, University of Leeds).
Voluntariado en armas y radicalismo politico en la Europa del sur. Una nación alternative (1871-1914), “Cuestión nacional y procesos de nazionalización en Europa” (Comillas, 23-25 June 2016, Universidad de Cantabria – CIESE)
Italian Anti-Fascism as a Transnational Movement: a Biographical Approach. “Fascism as a Transnational Phenomenon: New Perspectives of Research” (Saarbrucken, 13-14 October 2014, Universitat des Saarlandes)
Le destre spagnole e il fascismo: il sostegno italiano alle forze anti-democratiche durante la Seconda Repubblica. “Il regime fascista e l’Europa tra le due guerre. Una storia transnazionale” (Roma, 18-19 October 2012, Biblioteca del Senato “Giovanni Spadolini”, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom and École Française de Rome)