Guido Abbattista - Curriculum Vitae#
Education and academic career:
- 2001 - current Full Professor Università di Trieste (SSD M-STO/02 Modern History)
- 1996 - 2000 Associate Professor of Modern History, Università di Trieste (SSD M-STO/02 Storia moderna)
- 1992 - 1996 Associate Professor of Italian Modern History, Università per Stranieri Perugia
- 1990 - 1991 Professor (appointed) of History of Political Thought, Università di Genova
- 1984 (August) - 1992 Scuola Normale Superiore, Researcher (SSD M-STO/02, Modern History)
- 1984, January - August Fellow Fondazione Luigi Einaudi Torino
- 1983, June - December British Academy Fellow, Oxford-London
- 1982 - 1983 Fellowship Italian Ministry Foreign Affairs, Paris-I, Sorbonne
- 1979 - 1982 PhD European University Institute-Fiesole
- 1979 1st Prize “Centro Studi Popoli Extraeuropei Università di Pavia” for a book on Europe global cultural relationships
- 1978: Laurea in Lettere Università di Pisa
Visiting invitations:
- 2019 Guest Professor University of Nanjing, 24 August-1 September
- 2017 Guest Professor Tan Tong Duc University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (October 2017)
- 2017 Visiting Professor École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) (March 2017)
- 2016 Guest Professor University of Concepcion, Chile (August 2016)
- 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2017 Visiting Professor University of Nanjing
- 2002, July - August Visiting Fellow Wolfson College, Cambridge
- 1996 July - August Visiting Research Fellow Edinburgh University
- 1994 January - June Visiting Fellow Johns Hopkins University
Invited Speaker in foreign institutions (selection): Universities of Oxford, Sussex, Leicester, Edinburgh, Paris 8, Grenoble, Montpellier, New York University, Washington Folger Shakespeare Library, Augsburg, Aachen, Münster, Halle, NSWU at Sidney, Zaragoza, Central European University at Budapest, Macau Ricci Institute-Macau, Bordeaux III Michel de Montaigne, Frankfurt Universität, Monash University (Johannesburg Campus, South-African Republic), Jinan (PRC), Concepción (Chile), University of Nanjing, East University of Political Science and Law-Shanghai
Research Projects (last 10 years):
- 2019: Project leader of GLOBALSEAROUTES: an historical geodatabase on global navigations (15th-20th century), in progress
- 2016: National Coordinator PRIN project TRANSWORLDS, “Translating Worlds: Towards a Global History of Italian Culture (1450-1914)”
- 2011-2016: Coordinator Trieste Research Unit, “Commerce, colonies, civilization: global perspectives in an European ‘long-Enlightenment’, PRIN 2011-2016 “The liberty of Moderns. Long Enlightenment and civilization (1750-1850): Commerce, Politics, Culture, Colonies”
Editorships and refereeing:
- Co-Editor Storia della Storiografia international journal of history of historiography , 1991-current
- Founder and Co-editor Cromohs, international online Open Access journal of modern history 1995-2015; presently member Scientific Board
- Member Scientific Board of Studi settecenteschi, Asia Maior, Monograph Series “Identità e alterità nell’Europa moderna.
- Ricerche e documenti di storia della cultura”, Napoli, Bibliopolis, 2006-,
- Monograph Series “Temi di Storia”, Franco Angeli Editore
- Reader and advisor on historical topics for UTET publishing house, Torino, 2007-2013
- Referee research projects “PRIN”, Università di Padova, 2009-2010 and 2010-201;ERC, HERA-ESF, UIF; PRIN, SIR, Levi-Montalcini, MIUR-FARE, project FabPast 2017, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Paris
- Referee for historical journals Contemporanea, Rivista storica italiana, Società e Storia, Ricerche di storia politica, Rivista di storia del cristianesimo, Il Pensiero Politico, Studi Storici
Scientific research evaluation experiences:
- Member and Chair Committee for evaluating scientific research, University of Trieste, 2011-2014
- Membership of scientific societies (as of 2019):
- International Society for Cultural History (ISCH); Hakluyt Society (British Library, London); International Network for Theory of History (INTH); Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction (FEEGI); ; Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo Diciottesimo (SISSD); Italian Society of Historians of the Modern Age (SISEM), up to 2017; Network of Concerned Historians (NCH)