Assistant Professor
HIST-03/A Storia contemporanea
jacopo.pili@lettere.uniroma2.it
Other professional positions
University of Pisa: cultore della materia
Tor Vergata University of Rome: cultore della materia
Positions held
Tor Vergata University of Rome, October 2024-February 2024: Research Fellow (borsista di ricercar) within the “CATO-POPULISMOS – Nationalisms and Populisms in the Pius XII’s Age: Cultural Circulations, Religious Perceptions and Devotionals Practices across Europe and Latin America (1939-1958) – CUP: E53D23000070006” PRIN 2022 project
University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, February 2022-October 2024 Research Fellow (assegnista di ricercar) and Project Manager of the “HORIZON 2020 – ITHACA. Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region” Project, funded within the European Commission Horizon 2022 scheme
University of Bologna, December 2021-June 2022, Research Fellow (ricercatore a contratto) within the “Maria Montessori from the past to the present, Reception and implementation of her educational method in Italy on the 150th anniversary of her birth” PRIN 2017 project.
German Historical Institute in Rome (DHI Rom), February-June 2021, Research Fellow (borsista di ricerca)
April-July 2021, Research assista for Prof. Philips O’Brien, University of St. Andrews
Education
The University of Leeds, Leeds (UK) PhD in the School of History January 2020. Thesis: “Between Rome and Carthage: The Image of Great Britain in Fascist Italy”)
Roma Tre University, Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Politiche – Relazioni Internazionali, Summa cum Laude, 7 March 2015. Thesis: “La meccanizzazione e la motorizzazione nei rapporti degli addetti militari (1929-1939)”
Roma Tre University, Laurea Triennale in Scienze Politiche, 7 July 2012
Teaching Positions
Modules taught:
Roma Tre University, Global Intellectual History, modules taught in February-June 2021/September-December 2022/September-December 2023/September-December 2024
Tor Vergata University of Rome, “Fascismi globali,” modules taught in the first semester of 2021 and 2022
Tor Vergata University of Rome, Teaching Assistant for the ‘Global History’ module, 2019-21
Tor Vergata University of Rome, Teaching Assistant for the ‘Storia Contemporanea’ module, 2019-21
University of Leeds, The Modern World 1750-2000 module, taught in the second semester of 2018
University of Leeds, Consensus and Contention: Investigations in International History, Foreign Policy in Fascist Europe module, taught in the second semester of 2017
Lectures delivered:
Roma Tre University, 15/11/2022, George Mosse and the Enduring Appeal of Fascism
Tor Vergata University of Rome, 30/11/2020, “Transnational Fascism”
Fields of research
I have an interest in the history of fascism, on both an Italian and global scale, in military history (in particularly the work of military attaches abroad). I am particularly interested in the perception of “the other” in both democratic and authoritarian regimes. In recent years I have focused my research on Twenty-Century Vatican diplomacy and on the history of humanitarianism, in particular in the field of the aid to prisoners of war
Research training and grants
German Historical Institute in Rome: Early Career Fellowship, 2021
University of Leeds: PGR Research Fund
University of Leeds: PGR Extraordinary Fund
University of Leeds: AHC Faculty Research Dissemination Award
University of Leeds: School of History & IMS Scholarship, University of Leeds, 2016- 2019
Selected international colloquia and papers
Paper: The Humanitarian Diplomacy of the Holy See towards the International Committee of the Red Cross: 1939-1945, EFR, Rome, May 2025
Paper: ‘La percezione degli italiani da parte di Gran Bretagna e Stati Uniti’ L’Italia del 1943. La stagione dell’incertezza, Firenze, November 2023
Paper: ITHACA: Understanding Migration through the Early Modern Mediterranean, March 2023, RSA 2023, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2023
Paper: ITHACA: Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency, Migration and the Archive, ECREA – Film Studies Section, ICS – University of Lisbon, June 2022
Paper: Il Vaticano e i prigionieri di guerra nella seconda fase della Seconda guerra mondiale, IRSIFAR, Nuove fonti per uno studio della Chiesa durante la transizione La Chiesa di Pio XII e Roma tra locale e transnazionale (1943-1953), Rome, 20 May 2022
Paper: ‘Diplomazia e umanitarismo nell'azione vaticana in Medio Oriente: 1940–1945’ DHI Rom monthly conference, Rome, May 2021
Paper: ‘Anti-British Propaganda and its Reception in Wartime Fascist Italy’ Society for Military History Annual Conference, Columbus (OH) May 2019
Paper: ‘New Carthage: British Civilization, Empire and Race in the Fascist Italian Discourse’ Mediterranean Empires of the Interwar Period: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Chronopolitics, German Historical Institute Rome / Ecole Française de Rome, March 2019
Paper: ‘Great Britain as depicted by Italian Society for Military History Annual Conference, Louisville (KY) April 2018
Paper: ‘Great Britain as depicted by Italian War Propaganda’ The Second World War Research Group Annual Conference, May 2017
Paper: ‘Allies and Enemies in the Reports by the Military Attachés’, Italy’s Decade of War, 1935-45, University of Strathclyde, September 2016