Full Professor
HIST-03/A Storia contemporanea
lucia.ceci@uniroma2.it
Other professional positions
Director, Roman Centre for the Jewish Studies (CeRSE)
Editorial board, Fascism and Right-Wing Radicalism in Europe and America: Past and Present, БЕРЕГИНЯ. 777 (Moscow)
Member of the Scientific Committee, Fondazione Istituto Gramsci,
Member of the Scientific Committee, Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri
Member of the Scientific Committee, Roman Institute for Italian History from Fascism to the Resistance,
Member, Centre for the Study and Documentation of Religions and Political Institutions in Post-Secular Society
Member of the Scientific Committee, Italia contemporanea,
Member, Sangalli Institute Award for the Religious History
Member, Editorial Board Plus Ultra/Studies in History
Member of the Editorial Board, Religious Studies monograph Series, University Florence Press
Positions held
Assistant Professor of Modern History, University of Rome Tor Vergata (2004-2018)
Coordinator of the Historical curriculum, PhD Programme “Storia e Scienze filosofico-sociali, University of Rome Tor Vergata“ (2006-2020)
Adjunct Professor in History & Civilization, BA in Global Governance, University of Rome Tor Vergata (2014, 2015, 2017)
Visiting professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (2009)
Education
1991-1995: PhD in Political and Social History of Modern and Contemporary History, Department of History – University of Rome La Sapienza (January 1996). Thesis: The role of Gustavo Gutiérrez in the development of Liberation Theology in Latin America
July 1990: Laurea cum laude in Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Awards
Prize Desiderio Pirovano for the book Il papa non deve parlare. Chiesa, fascismo e guerra d’Etiopia, 2010.
Prize Friuli Storia for the book L’interesse superiore Il Vaticano e l’Italia di Mussolini, 2014
Fields of research
Relationships between Church, politics, and religious dimension (19th and 20th centuries) – Colonial Studies (19th and 20th centuries) – Fascism – II World War – Catholic Anti-Semitism (20th century) – Pacifism (20th century) – Religion and Mafia (20th century)
Research training and grants
Member, Prin 2015 The encounter of reform communism and the Catholic Church with the human rights 1975-1991 (2016-2019)
Principal Investigator, Research Program “Uncovering Excellence” on Religious Devotion between Mafia and Anti-Mafia (2015-2016), University of Rome Tor Vergata
Member, EU network on Pius XI directed by A. Melloni (2008-2014)
Member, Prin 2008 International order, democracies and totalitarianism in the Church of Pius XI (2010-2012).
Member, National Commitee for the Guglielmo Massaja bicentenary celebrations (2008)
Member, Prin 2004 Rome: a Mediterranean city (2005-2008)
Post-doc fellowship in Modern History, University of Rome Tor Vergata with a research project on Colonialism, Catholic Missions, and Islam in East Africa (1998-1999)
Post-doc Fellowship, Luigi Einaudi Foundation. Research project: The progressive Catholic thought in the long Sixties: the role of the Catholic publishers between circulations, spreading and censorship (1996-1997)
Selected international colloquia and papers
The irruption of human rights in the Catholic World: the Latin American context, “Human Rights and the Transformation of Political and Christian Cultures in the Late Twentieth Century”, Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 10-11 December 2020
L’appello ai potenti nel XX secolo: grazia, razza, cittadinanza/L’appel au pouvoir au XXe siècle: grâce, race, citoyenneté”, CeRSE, Rome, 10 December 2019
The Vatican and Ethiopia during the Italian Invasion, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Ecumenical Study Conference, Revisiting the Historical Relationship between the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Ethiopian Catholic Church, Addis Ababa, 1-2 May 2019
«Hybrid unions»? The Catholic Church and the racial laws in Italian East Africa (1935-1939), Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 26 September 2018
Fascist Racism in the Colonies: Building a Legal Discrimination, Nathan & Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies, University of Maryland, Washington, DC, 25 September 2018 (the paper was also presented at the Italian Cultural Society, Washington, DC, 23 September 2018)
Italian Catholicism and Human Rights Activism: Transna¬tional Networks against the Violations committed during Military Rules in Chile and Argentina, in Progressive Catholicism in Latin America and Europe. 1950s–1980s. Social Movements and Transnational Encounters, Kadoc, Leuven, 27-30 May 2018
Fascist Racism in the Colonies: Building a Legal Discrimination, The Racist Laws. Before and After the Shoah: Models, Practices and Heritage, International Holocaust Remembrance, Rome 27 May 2018
Benedict XV. A Pope in the World of the ‘Useless Slaughter’ (1914-1918), Keynote speech, Bononia, 4-5 November 2016
Semplice cristiano, martire ragazzino: Rosario Livatino tra santità cattolica e religione civile, L’immaginario devoto tra mafie e antimafia, Rome, 15-16 June 2016.
La réception de Mit Brennender Sorge en Italie, Pie XI, un Pape contre le nazisme? L’encyclique Mit brennender Sorge (14 mars 1937), Brest (France), 4-6 June 2015
Il pontificato di Pio XI e la violenza politica. Legittimazioni, delegittimazioni, circolazioni, Pio XI nella crisi europea | Pius XI. im Kontext der europäischen Krise , Gespräch, 4-6 May 2015
La Chiesa cattolica e la politica armata, in 1914-1945. L’Italia nella guerra europea dei trent’anni, Florence, 21-23 May 2014
Il dibattito sull’insegnamento della religione tra le due guerre, La religione istruita nella scuola e nella cultura dell’Italia contemporanea, Venice, 12-13 January 2012
Feixisme i antifeixisme des de la Guerra Civil i fins a la Transició (1936-1977), Barcelona, 25-26 November 2011
The First Steps of «Parallel Diplomacy»: The Vatican and the US in the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), in Pius XI and America. Brown University, Providence (USA), 28-30 October, 2010
L‘azione della Santa Sede nel conflitto italo-etiopico: la Segreteria di Stato, i nunzi e il gesuita, Le gouvernement pontifical sous Pie XI: pratiques romaines et gestion de l’universel, École française de Rome, Rome, 5-6 March 2010
Lucia Ceci has authored books and articles in Italy, Usa, Germany, France, Spain, Russia. She also wrote on cultural dissemination journals (e.g. Saturno, Reset, Treccani web magazine), and contributed to the cultural project of the website “Culti e Mafie” (http://cultiemafie.uniroma2.it)