CV_Dr. Simone Selva_May 2024



Simone Selva
FRHistS, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London
Italian Fulbright Commission Research Scholar at Harvard University, Department of History (2024)
David Thelen Prize 2023, Scientific committee member, Organization of American Historians


Main Areas of Interest

Global Financial History
History of International Economic Relations
History of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy
History of transatlantic economic relations
International Business History
Energy History
International Political Economy
History of International Economic Institutions
History of International Relations





Qualifications

2005: PhD in History of Institutions and Society in Contemporary Europe, State University of Milan (distinction)

2001: Master of Arts in Contemporary European Studies, Sussex University

1999: Postgraduate Summer School in US History, University of California at Berkeley

1999: MA in History, University of Bologna (Cum Laude)







Professional Positions


2023/24: Italian Fulbright Commission Research Scholar at Harvard University, Department of History (host: Prof. Charles S.Maier, Emeritus Professor of History, Harvard University)

2023-2025: Unit Leader, National Research Project (PRIN) “Italy's energy governance in the global economy and politics: the role of natural gas in the national energy transition strategy” (PI: University of Rome La Sapienza), filed for application to the call PRIN2022, FUNDED

2023-2024: Visiting Professor, University of Paris 8, Department of History

2022-2023: Invited Visiting Scholar, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Faculty of Economics (Host Prof. Maria Inés Barbero)

2022-: FRHistS, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London

2022-: member of the board of professors, PhD Program in Historical and Philosophical heritage for a sustainable innovation (National PhD program: Universities of Bari, Molise, Foggia, Naples L’Orientale)

2022-: member of the board of professors, PhD Program in International Studies, University of Naples L’Orientale, Naples

2021-2024: tenure-track senior Assistant Professor in International Economic History, University of Naples L’Orientale

2020-2021: Visiting Research Scholar, University College London, School of Advanced Studies

2018-2019: Visiting Scholar, New York University, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies;

2018-2021: untenured Assistant Professor of International Economic History, University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy

2018-: Independent External Expert, Fonds Nationale de la Recherche (FNR), Luxembourg

2016-2017: Independent External Expert and Rapporteur, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (ECOST), EU Program Horizon 2020.

2016-2018: Research associate, University of Naples L'Orientale

2015: Official translator from Italian into English of M.Caffiero, Legami Pericolosi, Turin: Einaudi, 2012, [Dangerous Bonds, Baltimore: The University Press of Maryland, publication date to be planned]

2014: Visiting Research Professor, El Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Estudios Históricos.

2012-2016 Research fellow in the History of International Economic Relations, Department of Humanities and Social Science, L'Orientale University of Naples.

2012 Researcher in the History of Consumption at the German Historical Institute, Washington DC.

2010-2011 Harvard University, Center for European Studies, Visiting Scholarship.

2009-2010 Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Visiting Fellowship.

2007-2008 Columbia University, History Department, Visiting Scholarship.

2006-2008 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Bologna.

2006-2007 European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization, Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship.

2006-2007 Oxford University, Rothermere American Institute, Associate Fellowship.

2005-2006 Oxford University, Rothermere American Institute, Visiting Fellowship.
Education

2001-2005 Ph.D. in Modern European History, State University of Milan, Department for the History of Society and Institutions (tutor: Prof. Federico Romero).

2000-2001 MA in Contemporary European Studies, Sussex European History, Sussex University.

1999 Postgraduate Summer School in U.S. History, University of California at Berkeley.

1992-1999 B.A. in History, University of Bologna, Department of History, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (cum laude)



Fellowships, Grants and Honors

2023-2024: Italian Fulbright Commission scholarship, research scholar category, held at Harvard University

2022-2024: research funding project on “Latin America and Mediterranean Europe: connections, exchanges and intersections in the age of the Cold War” (University-funded research project, University of Naples L’Orientale), member, PI: Prof. R.Nocera

2022/2023: travel grant, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, CA

2022-2023: ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility Fellowship

2021-2022-: associate fellow, Academy of Athens, Transmonea Project

2021-2023: research funding project in the field of International History, “Europe as a Global Actor: Politics and Economics of EU External Relations” (Department-level research funding), member. Funding body: University of Naples l’Orientale, PI: Prof. P.Wulzer

2021-2022: research funding project in the field of Economic History. Funding body: University of Naples L'Orientale, coordinator Prof. G. Moricola

2020-: member of the reseau de recherche internationale, “Le Libéralisme dans tous ses E/états”, Projet de recherche déposé dans le cadre de l’Appel à projet 2019 pour le programme Actions de Recherche Transversales (ART 2019) de la Commission Recherche de l’Université de Tours

2020-: member of the research project “I Presidenti e la Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri nella Storia della Repubblica. Storia, Politica, Istituzioni”, Fondazione Scienze Religiose, Bologna, Italy

2019-2020: scientific consultant to the Italian publisher Il Mulino, Bologna, for the translation from English into Italian of F.Block, Capitalism. The Future of an Illusion. Oakland, Ca: University of California Press, 2018, (F.Block, Capitalismo. Il futuro di un'illusione. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2021).

2019-2020: University of Naples L'Orientale research grant, research group of Economic history, coordinator Prof. G. Moricola

2019: grant from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale to organise and chair a research seminar, November 2019

2017: Travel grant, Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York

2015: Translation Grant, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;

2014: Mexican Government Visiting Professorship held at El Colegio de Mexico;

2013-: Early career research fellowship, L'Orientale University of Naples, Italy;

2012-2013: History of consumption research fellowship, Max Weber Stiftung Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland-German Historical Institute, Washington DC;

2012: book publishing fund, Segretariato europeo pubblicazioni scientifiche, Bologna;

2010-2011: Gold Money Foundation (Madrid), Research Grant;

2010-2011: Rotary International Ambassadorial fellowship at Harvard University;

2010: GLOBALEURONET-Economic History Research Networking Program, Travel Grant.

2010: De Gasperi Foundation Prize award winner for the best PhD dissertation in economics;

2010: Società Italiana per lo studio della storia contemporanea (SISSCO), Travel Grant;

2009: DAAD research fellowship for visiting scholar and professors;

2007: University of Eastern Piedmont (Vercelli, Italy), Travel Grant;

2006-2008: postdoctoral fellowship, University of Bologna;

2005-2006: Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, Visiting Fellowship

2005-2006 Claudio Sabattini Foundation (Bologna), research grant;

2001-2005: PhD fellowship, Italian Ministry for Education and Research;

2003: Research grant, Department of History, University of Pisa;

2001: postgraduate fellowship to attend MA classes abroad, University of Bologna;

2001: Royal Historical Society (London), Travel Grant;

2001: Research grant, Department of Italian Studies, University of Bologna




Publications
publications in class A reviews and publishing houses: Storica, The Journal of American History, Economic History Review, Enterprise & Society, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Nuova Rivista Storica, Passato e Presente, CEU Political Studies Journal, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, Rivista Storica Italiana, Palgrave Macmillan, Berghahn Books, Carocci, Il Mulino, Laterza, Springer Nature


List of publications

Monographs

S.Selva, Integrazione internazionale e sviluppo interno. Stati Uniti e Italia nei programmi di riarmo del blocco atlantico, 1945-1955. Rome: Carocci, 2009.

S.Selva, Supra-National Integration and Domestic Economic Growth. The United States and Italy in the Western Bloc Rearmament Programs. Bruxelles-New York-Oxford-Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012.

S.Selva, Before the Neoliberal Turn. The Rise of Energy Finance and the Limits to US Foreign Economic Policy. London: Palgrave, 2017 (Palgrave Studies in Economic History Series).


Edited Special Issues of Journals

special issue of 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, 4 (2011) monographic issue on "La fine del petrolio. Risorse energetiche e democrazia in eta' contemporanea" [The end of Oil. Energy Resources and democracy in
contemporary history] (with Elisabetta Bini).




Referred Articles and Book Chapters


S.Selva, “Domestic Growth and External Equilibrium: The Early Years of Transatlantic Economic Integration”, accepted for publication, Athens Journal of Business and Economics, forthcoming, July 2024.


S.Selva, “Financial Crises and International Economic Integration Amidst Capital Flows and Aggregate Demand: a Tentative Comparison between the 1920s and the 1970s downturns”,accepted for publication, Nuova Rivista Storica, forthcoming, 2024.



S.Selva, “Islamic Finance”, in: M. Ustaoglu, C. Çakmak, (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Islamic Finance and Economics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93703-4_300-1

S.Selva, “IMF”, in ivi, forthcoming 2024.

S.Selva, “OPEC”, in ivi, forthcoming 2024.


S.Selva, “The U.S. Commercial and Investment Banks, the Eurocurrency Markets, and the International Economy: From the Late 1970s Through the Start of the 1980s”, International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences, Vol. 12, n. 2, April 2024, pp. 44-53.



S.Selva, “Financial Deregulation, monetary tightening, oil crises, transnational capital flows: the United States and the origins of neoliberal financial policies”, International Journal of Financial Research, Vol 14, n. 4 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5430/ijfr.v14n4p10 . Available at: https://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/ijfr/article/view/24959



S.Selva, “Mercati immobiliari, globalizzazione finanziaria e crisi bancarie. Il great crash del 2008 e la frattura della finanza euroatlantica negli studi recenti. America, Europa, Italia” [in Italian], Rivista Storica Italiana, 2 (2023), pp. 505-542.




S.Selva, “EU Economic and Monetary Integration in the Age of Global Finance”, in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems, Springer, London, 2023.


S.Selva, “How the energy crises paved the way for a path dependence on unregulated financial markets in both capitalist west and socialist east”, Journal of European Economic History, n. 1 (2023), pp. 213-2018.


S.Selva, Bolstering the U.S. Dollar and Stabilising World Trade and Payments. The Limited Role of Bretton Woods International Economic Institutions from the 1960s to the 1970s, in C.Bregianni-R.Cussó (eds.), Shaping and Re-shaping the Global Monetary Order during the Interwar Period and Beyond. Athens: Alfeios, 2023, pp. 263-310.


S.Selva, “U.S. Military Assistance to Europe, NATO’s Military Build Up, and the Start of Intra-European Economic Cooperation, 1947-1955, International Journal of Finance, Economics and Management Sciences, Vol. 11, n. 1 (2023), pp. 1-13, DOI: 10.11648/j.ijefm.20231101.11, available at: https://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo?journalid=173&doi=10.11648/j.ijefm.20231101.11


S.Selva, “International Economic Interdependence Amidst Capital Flows and Aggregate Demand: a Tentative Comparison between the 1920s and the 1970s economic crises”, accepted for publication, International Journal of Business and Social Science, withdrawn by the author, 2022.


S.Selva, “Cinquant’anni dopo: il sistema monetario di Bretton Woods in prospettiva storica”, in Storia Economica, Vol. XXIV, n. 1-2, 2022, pp. 441-461 [in Italian].


S.Selva, “Mario Monti”, in S.Cassese, A.Melloni, A.Pajno (eds.), I Presidenti e la Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri nella Storia della Repubblica. Storia, Politica, Istituzioni, Vol. 1, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2022, pp. 857-895 [in Italian].


S.Selva, “Cinquant’anni dopo Bretton Woods: dollaro e sistema monetario internazionale tra storia e presente”, in Passato e Presente, n.114 (2021) , pp. 72-82 [in Italian].


S.Selva, "Transnational Capital Markets and Development Policies in the 1970s: Oil Shocks, the Rise of Energy Finance, and the Reshaping of U.S. Foreign Economic Relations", in Journal of Energy History/Revue d’Histoire de l’Energie, 3 (2020), available at : http://energyhistory.eu/node/204 .


S.Selva, "Recycling OPEC Oil Revenues and Resurrecting the Dollar, and the U.S. International Payments Position in American Foreign Policy 1970-1975", in Federal History Journal, 12 (April 2020), available at http://www.shfg.org/page-18353 .


S.Selva, "Bolstering the US Dollar and Stabilizing World Trade and Payments: the Limited Role of the Bretton Woods International Economic Institutions from the 1960s to the 1970s", in C.Bregianni-R.Cussò (a cura di) Politique économique des institutions internationales en perspective diachronique. Laboratoire de Démographie et d’Histoire Sociale-CRH, EHESS. Paris, 2019, pp. 125-166.


S.Selva, US Banks, Transnational Capital Markets, and the Origins of the Debt Crisis: The Case of the Latin American Debtor Nations in the 1970s, in G.Depeyrot (ed.), Currency, Money, and Economic History. Wetteren: Moneta, 2019, pp. 151-167.


S.Selva, "The Making of European Monetary Integration and Transnational Capital Markets: Financial Integration and Investments from the 1960s to the 1970s", in N.Champroux, G.Depeyrot-A.Dogan, and J.Nautz (eds), Construction and Deconstruction of Monetary Unions. Lessons from the Past. Wetteren: Moneta, 2018, pp. 127-146.


S.Selva, "The Central Bank and the Governments in the shaping of Italy's International Financial Policies from the end of Bretton Woods Through the Start of the 1980s", in C.Bouneau et D.Burigana (eds), Experts and Expertise in Science and Technology in Europe since the 1960s. Organized Civil Society, Democracy and Political Decision-Making. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2018, pp. 85-102.


S.Selva, "Gold, Dollar, International Trade and Monetary Integration in US Foreign Policy", Review of Business and Economic Studies, Vol. 5, n. 2 (2017), pp. 23-35.


S.Selva, "Finanza e consumi nel Ventesimo secolo" [Capital Markets and Mass Consumption in the Twentieth Century], in Storia Economica, n. 1 (2017), pp. 199-244.


S.Selva, "Technological Advance, Transatlantic Trade, External Equilibrium. American Financial Assistance to the Italian Nuclear Power Programs from the 1960s through the first Oil Crisis", in K.Andresen and S.Muller (ed.),Contesting Deregulation: Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s. New York: Berghahn, 2017, pp. 169-184.


S.Selva, "Market Regulation and Economic Interdependence. Capital Supply and Aggregate Demand in the Twentieth Century", European Association for Banking History Working Papers Series, 1 (2017): http://bankinghistory.org/publications/eabh-papers/;


S.Selva, "L'interdipendenza economica internazionale. Ascesa e declino di una categoria tra keynesismo e monetarismo" [The process of international economic interdependence: its rise and demise amid keynesianism and monetarism], Storica ( indexed in Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index), n. 61-62 (2015), pp. 9-58.


S.Selva, "Capital-intensive modernization, internal expansionary policies, competitive export: the Political Economy of U.S. Nuclear Assistance programs during Bretton Woods. The case of Italy before the end of fixed exchange rates", in Business and Economic History, 12, 2014 (ISSN:1941-7349).


S.Selva, "Politica monetaria, sistema creditizio e commercio estero dell'Italia nel sistema internazionale del Gold Standard"[ Monetary Policy, the Banking System and Foreign Trade in Italy under the International Gold Standard], in G.Moricola (ed.), Quello che i numeri non dicono [What Historical Statistics does not unveil]. Rome: Aracne, 2014, pp. 47-89.


S.Selva, "International Capital Flows and Technological Transfers: Euro Mediterranean Economic Bonds and the Middle East since the two Oil crises to the Fading of Transatlantic Cooperation in the Mediterranean Basin", in G. Depeyrot (sous la direction de), Documents and Studies on 19th Century Monetary History. When Orient and Occident Meet. Wetteren: CNRS-Moneta, 2014, pp. 313-319.


E.Bini-S.Selva, Introduction to "Petrolio e risorse energetiche nella storia del 900", special issue of 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, 4 (2011) monographic issue on "La fine del petrolio. Risorse energetiche e democrazia in eta' contemporanea" [The end of Oil. Energy Resources and Democracy in Contemporary History] (with Elisabetta Bini), pp. 7-16.


S.Selva, "Recovery and Security. Early U.S. Military Assistance to Italy and the Beginning of European Economic Integration", in A.C.Lauring Knudsen-M.Rasmussen (eds), The Road to a United Europe. Interpretations of the Process of European Integration. Bruxelles : Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 137-153.


S.Selva, "L‟industria militare" [The Military Industry], in M.Isnenghi (ed.), Italiani in guerra[Italians at War], Vol. V, Le armi della Repubblica [the Italian Republic and Its Military], edited by Nicola Labanca. Turin: Utet, 2009, pp. 266-284.


S.Selva, "Recessione economica e ristrutturazione industriale. Il sindacato emiliano nella crisi degli anni Settanta" [Economic Downturn and Industrial Restructuring. The Trade Union Movement in Emilia-Romagna and the Crisis of the 1970s], in A.De Bernardi-V.Romitelli-C.Cretella (eds), Ripensare gli anni Settanta. Tra crisi mondiale e movimenti collettivi [Rethinking the 1970s. Worldwide Crisis and Collective Movements]. Bologna: Gedit, 2009, pp. 285-304.


S.Selva, “Il quadro storico, il sindacato europeo e Claudio Sabattini"[The accomplishments of Claudio Sabattini, his time and the European trade union movement], in AAVV, L'Assalto al cielo. Claudio Sabattini, i lavoratori della Fiat e le loro lotte nella seconda metà degli anni Settanta. Atti del convegno 'Lavorare per un sindacato indipendente e europeo' [Claudio Sabattini, the workers of Fiat and the class conflict during the second half of the 1970s, Conference Proceedings]. Rome: Meta Edizioni, 2009, pp. 118-130.


S.Selva, "Dall’arretratezza all’innovazione: la politica monetaria e l’evoluzione del sistema produttivo reggiano tra anni Sessanta e Settanta" [From Social and Economic Backwardness to Industrial Advance. The Italian Monetary Policy and a Local Industrial System from the 1960s to the1970s], in L.Baldissara (ed.), Tempi di conflitti, tempi di crisi. Contesti e pratiche del conflitto sociale a Reggio Emilia nei ‹‹lunghi anni Settanta›› [Years of Conflicts, Years of Crisis. The Social Conflict in Reggio Emilia during the Long 1970s: Contexts and Dynamics]. Napoli: L'Ancora del Mediterraneo, 2008, pp. 41-86.


S.Selva, "Il capitalismo dei consumi" [A Mass Consumption Model of Capitalism], in 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, special issue on "Imperi coloniali. Italia, Germania e la costruzione del mondo coloniale" [Colonial Empires. Italy, Germany and the shaping of the imperial world], edited by Michele Nani and Stefano Petrungaro, no. 1 (2009), pp. 201-205.


S.Selva, "Riconsiderare la fine della guerra fredda"[Reconsidering the End of the Cold War], in 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, 2007, pp. 361-366.


S.Selva, "L'azione sindacale in un‟economia arretrata. La CGIL nella modernizzazione italiana del Novecento" [Trade Union policies in a backward economy. The Leftward Italian Trade Unions and the Twentieth Century Modernisation], special issue on "Cent'anni di sindacato nel Veneto. Lavoro, lotta, organizzazione" [One Hundred Years of Trade Union History in Veneto. Work, Labor Conflicts, Labor Organisation], in Venetica, vol. 20, no. 13 (2006), pp. 179-205.


S.Selva, "Gli industriali bolognesi e la ristrutturazione postbellica: scelte economiche e iniziative imprenditoriali tra anni Quaranta e Cinquanta" [Entrepreneurs and the Post WWII industrial Reconstruction between Industrial Policies and Entrepreneurial Initiatives: the Case of Bologna], in L.Baldissara (ed.), Democrazia e conflitto. Il sindacato e il consolidamento della democrazia in Italia e in Emilia Romagna [ Democracy and Social Conflict. The Italian Trade Union Movement and the Consolidation of Democracy in Italy and Emilia Romagna]. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2006, pp. 257-298.


S.Selva, "The Economic Implications of Early Military Assistance to Western Europe under the Truman Administration, 1949-1951", in Business and Economic History, 2005 (http://www.hnet.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHonline/2005/selva.pdf).


S.Selva, "State and Economy in Italy before the Economic Miracle: Economic Policy and International Constraints since the Reconstruction through the pre-Boom Years", in Business and Economic History, 2004 (http://www.hnet.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHonline/2004/Selva.pdf).


S.Selva-G.M.Anselmi, "L'autunno della terza pagina tra letteratura e impegno civile"[The cultural section in the Italian newspapers and its demise], in A.Varni (ed.), Storia della comunicazione in Italia: dalle gazzette a internet [For a history of the media industry in Italy: from the appearance of newspapers to internet]. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2002, pp. 169-200.


with S.Bellassai, A.Manicardi, M.Nani, "Leggere i movimenti. Uno strumento bibliografico", in L.Baldissara (a cura di), Gli anni dell'azione collettiva. Per un dibattito sui movimenti politici e sociali nell'Italia degli anni '60 e '70. Bologna: Clueb,1998, pp. 56-88.




Encyclopedia Entries



S.Selva, “Tulip Mania 1637 and other crises in Netherlands”, in S. Hsu (ed.), The Elgar Encyclopedia of Financial Crises. Cheltenham, UK-Northampton,USA: Edward Elgar Publisher, 2023, pp. 458-462.

S.Selva, “Philippines banking crisis-1981”, in ivi, pp. 264-266.

S.Selva, “Malaysian crisis 1985”, in ivi, pp. 248-250.

S.Selva, “2002 Uruguay banking crisis”, in ivi, pp.1-6.

S.Selva, “Amadeo Bordiga”, in Scrittori italiani di economia durante il Regno d'Italia, edited by P.Barucci, M.,Mosca, S.Misiani, F.Manzalini. Roma, Bancaria Editrice, forthcoming 2024.

S.Selva, “Mario Ferrari Aggradi”, in Ivi, 2024.

S.Selva, "The American Petroleum Institute (API)" , in M.Lindstrom (ed.), Encyclopedia of the US Government and the Environment: History, Policy, and Politics. Santa Barbara, Ca: ABC-Clio, 2010, pp. 89-90.

S.Selva, "Gladio", in S.C. Tucker (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Santa Barbara (CA): ABC-CLIO, 2007. History Reference Online. ABC-CLIO. 5 May. 2009 .

S.Selva, "The Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis", in S.C. Tucker (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Santa Barbara(CA): ABC-CLIO, 2007. History Reference Online. ABC-CLIO. 5 May. 2009 .

S.Selva-P.Pierpaoli, "Pleven Plan (1950)", in S.C. Tucker (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the Cold War. Santa Barbara(CA): ABC-CLIO, 2007. History Reference Online. ABC-CLIO. 5 May. 2009 .

S.Selva, "The Federal Reserve Bank", in C.Northrup (ed.), The American Economy. Santa Barbara (CA): ABC-Clio, 2003, pp. 379-385.

S.Selva, "Economic Cooperation Administration", in C.Northrup (ed.), The American Economy. Santa Barbara (CA): ABC-Clio, 2003, p. 90.





book reviews and reviews articles


S.Selva, book review of S.Labbate, Alla canna del gas russo. Torino: Utet, 2023, in Rivista di Storia Internazionale, forthcoming 2024.

S.Selva, book review of B.Selwyn, The Struggle for Development. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017, in Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, vol. 16, n. 2 (2022), pp. 90-93.

S.Selva, book review of A. Varsori-B.Zaccaria (eds.), Italy in the International System from Détente to the end of the Cold War. The Underrated Ally. London:Palgrave, 2018, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 26, n. 5 (2021), pp. 645-647.

S.Selva, book review of A.Rapini, The History of the Vespa. An Italian Miracle. London: Routledge, 2019, in Italia Contemporanea, n. 294 (2021), pp. 301-304.

S.Selva, book review of A.Fleming, City of Debtors. A Century of Fringe Finance. Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, 2018, in Economic History Review, Vol. 73, 3 (2020), pp. 878-880.

S.Selva, book review of S.A. Bourque, Beyond the Beach. The Allied War Against France. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2018, in Journal of American History, Vol. 106, n. 3 (2019), p. 807.

S.Selva, book review of G. Moricola, L'albero della Cuccagna. Rome: Aracne, 2016, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 24, n. 3 (2019), pp. 533-536.

S.Selva, book review of C.E.Altamura, European Banks and the Rise of International Finance. London: Routledge, 2016, in Economic History Review, vol. 71, 2 (2018), pp. 700-701.

S.Selva, book review of M. Schmelzer, The Hegemony of Growth: the OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, in Economic History Review ((indexed in ISI Web of Knowledge), Vol. 70, n. 3 (2017): pp. 1042-1044.

S.Selva, book review of D.Held-C.Roger (eds), Global Governance at Risk, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2013, in Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (indexed in Scopus and EBSCO), Vol. 2, n. 4 (2017), pp. 154-157.

S.Selva, book review of R. J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: the US standard of living since the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2016, in Economic History Review, Vol. 70, n. 1 (2017), pp. 357-358.

S.Selva, book review of F.Romero-E.Mourlon-Druol (eds), International Summitry and Global Governance. London: Routledge, 2014, in Political Studies Review (indexed in ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus), Vol. 14, n. 2 (2016), pp. 262-263.

S.Selva, book review of K.Mistry, Italy, the United States and the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press, New York, 2014, in The Journal of American History (indexed in ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus), Vol. 102, n. 2, (September 2015), pp. 605-606.

S.Selva, book review of N.Rollings, British Business in the Formative Years of European Integration 1945-1973. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, in Ceu Political Science Journal (indexed in Scopus), vol. 7 (2012), pp. 377-380.

S.Selva, book review of W.Hausman-P.Hertner-M.Wilkins, Global Electrification. Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power 1878-2007. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, in Ceu Political Science Journal, vol. 6 (2011), pp. 510-514.

S.Selva, "Riconsiderare la fine della guerra fredda" [Reappraising the History of the Cold War], in 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, 2007, pp. 361-366.

S.Selva, book review of G.Schachter-S.Engelbourg. Cultural Continuity in Advanced Economies: Britain and the U.S. versus Continental Europe. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005, in Enterprise and Society (indexed in Scopus), vol. 8 (2007), pp. 964-966.

S.Selva, book review of F.J. Gavin. Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, in Enterprise & Society, vol. 6 (2005), pp. 149-151.

S.Selva, book review of G.Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century. Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Time. London: Verso 1994, in Jura Gentium, vol. 2 (2005), ISSN: 1826-8269.

S.Selva, book review of W.H.Becker-W.M.McClenahan Jr., The Market, the State, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States 1934-2000. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, in Jura Gentium, vol. 2 (2005).

S.Selva, book review of A.Costa Pinto, The Blue Shirts. Portuguese Fascists and the New State. Boulder (CO): Social Science Monographs, 2000, in Portuguese Studies Review, Vol. 11, n. 2 (2003).

S. Selva, book review of F.Mazzonis (ed.), L'Italia e la storiografia internazionale. Venice: Marsilio, 1995, in Rassegna di storia contemporanea, 1997, pp. 192-194.







Miscellaneous works

S.Selva, "A short note on Germany’s main economic developments and monetary history since the mid 19th century" (with a statistical reconstruction annexed), in J.E. Castañeda (ed.), Statistical Gold Analysis Worldwide. Short notes on the main economic developments and monetary history since mid 19th century: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, UK, and US, vol. 1, Gold Money Foundation, 2012, p. 27-35.

S.Selva, "A short note on Italy’s main economic developments and monetary history since the mid 19th century" (with a statistical reconstruction annexed), in J.E. Castañeda (ed.), Statistical Gold Analysis Worldwide. Short notes on the main economic developments and monetary history since mid 19th century: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, UK, and US, vol. 1, Gold Money Foundation, 2012. vol. 1, p. 36-42.




Contributions to history handbooks

S.Selva, Alle origini della società delle telecomunicazioni: dal telegrafo alla televisione, in L.Baldissara-S.Battilossi, Corso di storia. Milan: Sansoni, 2000. pp. 78-88.

S.Selva, La seconda rivoluzione industriale:nuove tecnologie, nuove tensioni sociali, in L.Baldissara-S.Battilossi, Corso di storia. Milan: Sansoni, 2000, pp. 101-111.

S.Selva, La società del terziario, in L.Baldissara-S.Battilossi, Corso di storia. Milan: Sansoni, 2000, pp. 88-98.

S.Selva, La rete delle informazioni e il villaggio globale, in L.Baldissara-S.Battilossi, Corso di storia. Milan: Sansoni, 2000 , pp. 123-133.




Translation works (from Italian into English)


M. Caffiero, Dangerous Bonds, The University Press of Maryland: Bethesda (MD), forthcoming in the future, original ed. Legami pericolosi. Turin: Einaudi, 2012.



Translation works (from English into Italian)


F.Block, Capitalism. The Future of an Illusion. Oakland, Ca: University of California Press, 2018, (F.Block, Capitalismo. Il futuro di un'illusione. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2021).

M.Watts, "Crimini dimenticati. Vita, morte e inganno nei giacimenti petroliferi della Nigeria" [or.title: Forgotten Crimes: Life, Death and Illusion on the Nigerian Oilfields ], in 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, vol. 4 (2011); p. 133-166.

F.Cooper, "Situazioni da decolonizzare. 1951-2001:La parabola degli studi coloniali" [or.ed.: Decolonising situations: the Rise, Fall and Rise of Colonial Studies 1951-2001, in French Politics, Culture and Society, vol. 20 (2002)], in 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, n.s., Vol. 1 (2009), pp. 107-131.

M.Conway, "Ascesa e declino dell'era democratica. Europa 1945-73" [or. ed.: The Rise and Fall of Europe's democratic Age , in Contemporary European History, Vol. 13, n. (2004)], translated by L.Cavallaro, L.Cerasi, S.Petungaro, S.Selva, in 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, Vol. 12, (2005), pp. 49-65.

R.Higgs, "La transizione americana. Dalla pianificazione centralizzata al mercato 1945-1947". [or. ed.: From Central Planning to the Market: The American Transition 1945-47, in The Journal of Economic History, n. 3, Vol. 59, (1999) ], translated by L.Cavallaro, S.Selva, in 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, vol. 12, pp. 67-82.

G.Arrighi, "Lavoro e capitale alla fine del secolo"[or.title: Labor and Capital at the end of the Twentieth Century] , in L.Baldissara (ed.), Le radici della crisi. L'Italia tra gli anni Sessanta e Settanta. Rome: Carocci, 2001], pp. 151-172.

P.McCarthy, "Crisi italiana e crisi europea. Dal dollaro debole di Nixon all'Europa mitica di Prodi" [or.title.: The Italian Crisis and the European Crisis. From Nixon's Weak Dollar to the Worldwide Famous Europe of Prodi], in L.Baldissara (ed.), Le radici della crisi. L'Italia tra gli anni Sessanta e Settanta. Rome: Carocci, 2001, pp. 209-242.

P.Pierson-J.Myles, "Economia politica comparata della riforma pensionistica" [or.ed.: The Comparative Political Economy of Pension Reform, in P.Pierson (ed.), The New Politics of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000], in Europa/Europe, vol. 1 (2000), pp. 89-111.

E.Froschl, "L'Austria e il caso Haider"[or.ed.: Haider und die Freiheitlichen in Osterreich(zus. mitB.Bailer-Galanda ), Berlin 1997], in Europa/Europe, vol. 9, n. 2 (2000), pp. 16-23.



Convened academic seminars and events


2023: Convener of the research seminar “The Rise of Central Banks. State Power in Financial Capitalism”, participants: Alexis Drach, Leon Wansleben, November 21, University of Naples L’Orientale,

2022: convener of the Seminar Series in Global Economic and Financial History, fall semester, featuring Gregory Brew, Mary Bridges, Marta Musso

2022: scientific organiser of the international seminar “Neoliberalism and the end of the Cold War”, featuring Fritz Bartel’s The Triumph of Broken Promises (Harvard University Press, 2022), October 12, 2022, University of Naples L’Orientale.

2021: scientific organiser of an online lecture given by Prof. Eric Helleiner (University of Waterloo, Canada): “Challenges to the Bretton Woods system over time: resilience or transformation?”, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Naples L’Orientale, December 14.

2021: scientific organiser of an international seminar on the occasion of the publication of W.Plumpe-A.Nützenadel-C.Schenk, The Deutsche Bank. The Global Hausbank, Bloomsbury, London 2020, introduction Prof. G.Cataldi, speaker Prof. A.Nützenadel, discussants: Professors Y.Cassis, S.Capasso, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale, November 2.

2021: convener of the Seminar Series in “Global economic and monetary history”, Fall Semester 2021/22, University of Naples L’Orientale.

2020: co-organiser (with Prof. M.Pretelli) of the seminar "L'America del 2020: Società, economia e relazioni internazionali in un anno di elezioni", promoted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Naples L’Orientale, and the U.S. Consulate in Naples, live-streamed online, December 15.

2020: co-organiser (with Prof. M.Pretelli) and chair of the roundtable "From a Great Crash to a Pandemic:Banking and fiscal crisis, international trade, and the political economy of the U.S.-EU relations" (speakers: Prof. Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University; prof. Christine Zumello, Universitè Paris Sorbonne-Nouvelle), promoted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Naples L’Orientale, and the U.S. Consulate in Naples, live-streamed online, December 16.

2019: co-organizer of the lecture and roundtable in English (with Proff. Marco Lossani, Andrea Maria Locatelli, Giandomenico Piluso, Fabio Lavista) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro, Dipartimento di Storia dell’Economia, della Società e di Scienze del Territorio, May 27.







Selected Invited Lectures


2023: paper giver at the international conference for the 50th anniversary of the first oil crisis, University of Rome La Sapienza, October.

2023: Invited Lecturer, Lecture given on “Los Banco Norteamericanos en América Latina desde los 1960 hasta la crisis de la deuda”, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Economics, Center for Studies on Business and Development, May 29.

2023: Invited Discussant, 16th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Athens, April 3-4.

2022: paper giver at two sessions, XIX World Economic History Congress, Paris, July 25-29, Session title: “Investing and Re-investing Oil Revenues during the 20th century: The roles of Banks, Countries, Institutions and Multinationals”

Session title: “Financial Expertise and Monetary Order as Societal and Individual Experience. Global Actors and Local Players (XIXe c.-XXe c.)”.

2022: paper giver at the WEHC pre-session “Investing and reinvesting oil revenues in the Twentieth century. The role of banks, countries, institutions and multinationals”, Catholic University of Milan, Department of history of economics, society and territorial sciences “Mario Romani”, online seminar, March 21.

2021: paper giver at a Seminar jointly organised by the research group Transmonea-Academy of Athens Research Committee: “The international monetary and financial system in the interwar period and the historical comparison”, Athens, November 2021.

2021: speaker at the Colloque internationale “Le néolibéralisme anglo-américain des années 1980 : construction, évolution et mondialisation d’un paradigme/modèle à la fin du XXe siècle”, Université de Tours, March 15-16, 2021.

2021: Lesson “market deregulation, monetary tightening, transnational capital flows: the American economy and the origins of Financial globalization”, PhD Program in International Studies, University of Naples L’Orientale.

2020: Chair, roundtable “From a Great Crash to a Pandemic: Banking and Fiscal Crisis, International Trade, and the Political Economy of U.S.-EU relations”, speakers Prof. J.Frieden (Harvard University)-Consul P.Horne (U.S. Consulate in Naples)-Prof. C.Zumello (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), University of Naples L’Orientale, webinar, December 16.

2020: speaker at the seminar “L’America del 2020: economia, società e relazioni internazionali in un anno di elezioni”, University of Naples L’Orientale, webinar, December 15.

2020: speaker, online roundtable “Energy Imperialism? Resources, power and environment”, presentation of the monographic issue n. 3 (2020) of “Journal of Energy History/Revue d’histoire de l’Energie”, 11 dicembre, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

2020: paper giver, Colloque international “Acteurs du développement économique et financier entre global et local. Un aperçu par le biais des réseaux personnels, durant l'entre-deux- guerres et au-delà, organizzato da Institut de Recherche pour le Développement France-Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation-UMR 201 Développement et Sociétés-Transmonea, Paris, Université Panthéon Sorbonne, October 9-10, 2020.

2019: Chair of a panel at the Annual Meeting of the British International Studies Association, London, June 13-14.

2019: Catholic University of Milan, Department of History: lecture on "The Rise of Energy Finance and the Limits to US Foreign Economic Policy”, May 19.

2019: discussant at the roundtable on the occasion of the launch of the book S.Paoli, Frontiera Sud. Florence: Le Monnier 2018, University if Naples L'Orientale, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.


2019: paper giver, International Conference "Italy and Nato: a Historical reassessment", University of Padua, April 8-9, 2019.

2017: paper giver, Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought Annual International Conference, Rome, 23-25 November, Italy.

2017: paper giver, International workshop "Voice or Exit? Causes and Consequences of the Destabilization of Monetary Cooperation”, Vienna, Pallotti Haus, October 12-13.

2017: paper giver, International Conference "Ex-post Europe", University of Padua, 2-3 February 2017.

2016: paper giver, International Conference "Oil Imperialism? Energy and Political Power from a Global Perspective", Paris, Université Sorbonne, 4-5 November 2016.

2016: paper giver, Journée d'Etudes "Politiques économiques des institutions internationales en perspective diachronique (dès la fin du Premier Guerre Mondiale au stade actuel de la globalisation)", CRH/EHESS, Paris, 31 May 2016-1 June 2016.

2016: paper presenter, research workshop "The Political Economy of Regulation", European University Institute, Florence, 20 May 2016.

2016: lecture on "The History of Global Finance", The American University of Rome, Rome (Italy), March 8, 2016.

2015: paper giver, seminarios de historia economica, Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Administraciòn y Economia, Santiago, Chile, October 14, 2015 (declined).

2015: paper giver, Conferencia Internacional Deuda, Inflacion y Gestion de Empresa en América Latina durante las décadas de 1970 y 1980, Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Perù , October 5-7, 2015, (declined).

2014: paper giver, Business and Economic History of Latin America Conference, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, December 2014.

2014: research seminar paper giver, El Colegio de Mexico, Center for Historical Studies, October 27, 2014.

2014: research seminar paper giver, El Colegio de Mexico, Center for Economic Studies, October 9, 2014.

2011: Discussant to Kathleen Thelen‟s seminar on "The Future of Egalitarian Capitalism in Light of its Past", Boston Area Research Workshop on History, Institutions, and Politics (HIP) (http://hip.fas.harvard.edu), March 31, 2011 (with Amandine Crespy).

2010: “Dai programmi di riarmo ai piani di sviluppo economico per il Mezzogiorno. L‟Italia e il mutamento delle strategie americane di stabilizzazione sociale tra ricostruzione e sviluppo”[From Military Assistance to Planning Economic Recovery in the South. Italy and the Changing US Stabilisation Policies between Reconstruction and Development], research seminar series, Istituto di Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo (ISSM-CNR), Napoli, November 30, 2010.

2010: “Mercato di massa e interdipendenza economica nei rapporti tra Europa e Stati Uniti nell'età di Bretton Woods” [Mass Market and Economic Interdependence in the US-European Relations under Bretton Woods], Forschungskolloquium zur neueren italienischen und europäischen Geschichte, Sommersemester 2010 Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin (convener Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz), May 18, 2010.

2010: Organiser and participant at the roundtable R.D‟Agata-V.Ilari-L.Nuti-S.Selva on the book S.Selva, Integrazione internazionale e sviluppo interno. Stati Uniti e Italia nei programmi di riarmo del blocco atlantico, 1945-1955, Carocci, Rome 2009, organised by the Biblioteca di Storia moderna e contemporanea in Rome and the Centro di studi americani in Rome, Roma, May 11, 2010.

2009: “Industrial Modernization and Economic Integration: The American Support for the West European Economic Advance in the Case of U.S. Military Assistance to Italy in the early Cold War Years”, Abteilung II (Wirtschtftliche und soziale Umbrüche im 20 Jahrhundert), Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, November 6, 2009.

2006: “The Western bloc rearmament and European economic integration in the 1950s: the case of Italy between challenges and reactions”, Trinity Term Research Seminar, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University.








Selected conference presentation

2024: paper giver, Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, March 14-16


2023: paper presenter, The Age of Reagan Conference, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA, August 3-5.

2023: paper giver, Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, March 16-18

2023: paper giver, International Conference “Ten Years of Hope for a New Europe: Moscow and Brussels from 1985 to 1994”, University of Pisa, Italy, January 26-27.

2022: paper giver at the international conference The 2007-2008 Crisis in the Global Context: Historical Perspectives, Luiss University, Rome, October 6-7.

2022: paper giver, at a session jointly organised by the The Cliometric Society and Economic History Association, Western Economic Association International annual conference, Portland, Oregon, June 29 - July 3, 2022.

2022: paper giver at the 20th Annual Conference on History and Archeology. From Ancient to Modern, May 30-June 2, Athens Institute for Education and research, Athens, Greece

2022: paper giver at the Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference, Mexico City, April 7-9

2021: paper giver, online World Congress of Business History, Nagoya, Japan, September 9-11, 2021

2021: paper giver at the 40th Conference of Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History (APHES), online conference, July 9-10, 2021 (declined)

2021: paper giver, online Annual Meeting, Business and Economic History Annual Conference

2020: Business History Conference Annual Meting, Atlanta, USA, 28-30 May (event cancelled by the organisers)

2019: paper giver, BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group Annual Conference, Dublin, September 4-5,

2018: paper giver at the annual meeting of the Portuguese Association for Economic and Social History, Lisbon, November 16-17

2018: paper giver at the national conference "L'Europa e il suo processo di integrazione", Padova, September 27-28, 2018

2018: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, 30 August-2 September 2018

2018: WEHC, Boston, 29 July 2018-2 August 2018.

2018: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 21-23 June 2018

2016: Atiner 14th Annual International Conference on History and Archeology, Athens, Greece, 27-30 June 2016;

2015: paper presenter, 7th Annual Conference of Academic Association of Historians in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools, Auckland University of Technology Business School, New Zealand, November 2-4, 2015, (declined);

2015: paper presenter at the XV International Numismatic Congress, Taormina, Italy, September 21-25, 2015;

2015: University Association for Contemporary European Studies Annual Research Conference, Belfast (UK), June 28-30, 2015;

2014: paper presenter (panel on "Work and the Neoliberal Ascendancy") at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 2014 (declined);

2014: paper giver at the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy, Conference 2014, Naples, September 16-18, 2014;

2014: paper presenter at the European and Gas Archive Network (Eogan) Conference 2014 'Building Energy Histories', Rotterdam, June 18-21, 2014;

2014: paper presenter at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Economic and Business History Society, Manchestern, UK, May 29-31, 2014;

2014: paper presenter at the Damin (Dépréciation de l’Argent Monétaire et relations Internationales) session at IAFOR (International Academic Forum), Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities, Osaka (Giappone), April 3-6, 2014;

2014: paper presenter at the conference The Global War Centenary, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan, March 21-23, 2013(declined);

2014: panel discussant at the Business History Conference, 2014 Annual Meeting, March 13-15, 2014, Frankfurt;

2013: paper giver at the international conference "At the Origins of the Euro-Med Partnership. Europe, the Mediterranean and Italy from the Second Oil Shock to the Barcelona Conference", 8-9, Università degli studi di Padova, November 8-9, 2013;

2013: European Union Studies Association Biennial Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May 2013;

2013: paper presenter and panel chair at the Economic and Business History Society, 2013 Annual Meeting,Baltimore, Maryland, May 2014;

2012: paper presenter at the national conference Quello che i numeri non dicono. L’Italia nel commercio internazionale tra ‘800 e ‘900: istituzioni, luoghi, tecniche e protagonisti,November 30, 2012, Naples, Italy;

2012: paper presenter at the International Conference Relaciones internacionales en las Americas: economia, mercados y sociedad de la Era de las exportaciones a la Segunda Posguerra, 23-27 October 23-27, 2012, Bariloche, Argentina(declined);

2012: paper giver at the Conference Changes in Social Regulations. State, Economy and Social Actors since the 1970s, June 8-9, 2012, Dusseldorf, Germany;

2011: paper presenter all’Annual research seminar for young Americanists promoted by the Inter-university Center for North American History and Politics (CISPEA), and the Center for American Studies, Rome, October 10-12, 2011;

2011: paper presenter at the Business and Economic History Society, 2011 Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, April 14-16, 2011;

2010: Paper giver at the International conference The Mediterranean and Southern Europe: crisis and transformation from détente to the Second Cold War, organized by University of Padua and the S. Pio V University of Rome, University of Padua, July 3, 2010;

2010: paper presenter at the national research seminar The History of Contemporary Italy after the 1960s’ economic take off, organized by the Society of Historians for the history of Contemporary Italy (SISSCO), the Departments of Historical Sciences and the Departments of Politics, Institutions and History, University of Bologna, March 12-13, 2010;

2010: Paper giver at the Business History Conference, 2010 Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia (USA), March 2010 (declined);

2009: paper presenter at the Symposium Verstaatlichung und Privatisierung, organised by the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte and the Österreichischen Nationalbank, Wien, October 8-9, 2009;

2009: Paper giver at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations (SHARF), 2009 Annual Meeting, Falls Church, Virginia, June 25-27, 2009 (not attended);

2009: Paper presenter at the Business History Conference, Annual Meeting 2009, Milan, June 11-13, 2009 (not attended);

2007: paper presenter at the international conference Ripensare gli anni Settanta [Rethinking the 1970s], organised by the University of Bologna and the Parri Historical Institute, September 27-29, 2007;

2006: paper presenter at the Second Richie (Research Network of Young historians of European Integration) conference, Copenhagen, December 7-10, 2006;

2006: paper presenter at the Transatlantic Studies Association, 2006 Annual Conference, Dundee (UK), June 8-9, 2006;

2005: paper presenter at the Business History Conference, 2005 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, May 19-21, 2005;







Selected Professional Experiences


2024: secondary proposer, ECOST project “Money Be Money. Actors, Instruments and interrelations in the monetary Ecosystems”, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, under evaluation.

2024: blind reviewer, Rivista Storica Italiana


2023-: Editorial Board Member, Discover Global Society (Springer Nature, London)

2023: David Thelen Prize 2023, Scientific committee member, Organization of American Historians-Journal of American History

2022: Unit leader (University of Naples L’Orientale) of the National Project (PRIN) “Italy's energy governance in the global economy and politics: the role of natural gas in the national energy transition strategy” (PI: University of Rome La Sapienza), filed for application to the call PRIN2022, FUNDED

2022: blind reviewer, Storia Economica

2022-: Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences

2021: reviewer for ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Research entities and Universities), VQR 2015-2019

2021-: Editorial board member, Processi Storici e Politiche di Pace (Class A Journal, Italian Ministry for Research scientific sector 14/B2)

2021: Research member (University of Naples L’Orientale) of the National Project (PRIN) “Fattori di internazionalizzazione, imprese e management, reti. I porti italiani nell’economia mondiale (PI: University of Genoa)”, filed for application to the call PRIN2020 (not-funded)

2020-: academic member, Royal Historical Society, London

2020-: research member, réseau de recherche “Le Libéralisme dans tous ses E/états”, Projet déposé dans le cadre de l'Appel à projet 2019 pour le programme Actions de Recherche Transversales (ART 2019) de la Commission Recherche de l'Université de Tours, France

2020: blind reviewer for The Journal of American History

2020-: Editorial Board Member, Federal History. Journal of the Society for History in the Federal Government

2019-: blind reviewer for Nuova Rivista Storica

2019-: academic member, Center for European Studies, University of Naples L’Orientale

2019-: blind reviewer, Cogents Arts and Humanities,

2018-: blind reviewer for Economic History Review (Class A review, disciplinary fields 14/B2-History of international relations, and 13/C1-Economic History)

2018-: external expert for Fond Nationale de la Research du Luxembourg (FNR)

2018-: blind reviewer for Cogent Economics and Finance

2017-: Blind reviewer for Athens Journal of Social Sciences

2016-: External expert and Rapporteur, Cost Association-EU Program Horizon2020

2016-: Consultant to the Organization of American Historians

2016-: book reviewer for Economic History Review

2016-: blind reviewer for Athens Journal of History

2016-: academic member, Athens Institute for Education and Research (Athens, Greece), History Research Unit member and Economics Research Unit member.

2016-: book reviewer for American Studies Journal

2016-: book reviewer for Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS)

2015-: book reviewer for Political Studies Review

2015: member of the collaborative research project "European Monetary Unions in the Construction of European Identity" (www.monetary-union.net)

2015-: book reviewer for The Journal of American History

2014-: blind reviewer for Enterprise and Society. The International Journal of Business History;

2014-: Member, European Network on Oil and Gas Archive (http://www.eogan.org/#!researchers/c1tw5)

2013-: blind reviewer for Workers of the World. International Journal on Strikes and Social conflict

2012 : Co-founder of the Italian Society for Labour History;

2011-: Editorial board member of the International Journal for Business and Management;

2011 : Member of the research group on “Modern Monetary History and the Role of Gold”, Gold Money Foundation, principal Investigator Prof. Juan Castaneda;

2011 : member of the Boston Area Research Workshop on History, Institutions, and Politics (HIP) (http://hip.fas.harvard.edu);

2010-2011: member of the European Monetary Unifications project (http://www.emu-cost.net/), principal investigator G.Depeyrot;

2005-2011: member of the editorial board of the journal 900. Per una storia del tempo presente;

2007-2008: member of the Research project “Eco-Economy and Society”, University of Bologna, Principal Investigator Prof. I.Masulli;

2006-2007: member of the national research project Prin-MIUR ex40% “La democrazia dei posteri. Tra sfide globali e tendenze particolaristiche” [The Democracy of Posterity between Global Challenges and Local Reactions], University of Pisa Research Unit;

2005-2007: member of the research group “Tempi di conflitti, tempi di crisi. Contesti e pratiche del conflitto sociale a Reggio Emilia nei ‹‹lunghi anni Settanta››” [Years of Conflicts, Years of Crisis. The Social Conflict in Reggio Emilia throughout the long 1970s: Contexts and Dynamics], Research Center R60. Center for labor and contemporary history studies, (Reggio Emilia), principal investigator Prof. L.Baldissara;







Memberships

2024: Economic History Association, USA

2020-: Royal Historical Society, London

2002-2003 American Historical Association

2005-2006 American Historical Association

2008: European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

2011-2013 Economic and Business History Society

2012-2015 Italian Society for Labor History

2013-2024 Business History Conference

2013 European Union Studies Association

2017-2019 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

2018 Portuguese Association for Economic and Social History

2019 British International Studies Association





Teaching Experience


2013/2014: member of the examination board, Master classes in History of International Economic Relations and Theory and History of Development, MA in International Studies, University of Naples L'Orientale;

2013/2014: Teaching assistant of History of International Economic Relations and Theory and History of Development, L'Orientale University of Naples;

2013/2014: Teaching assistant of Theory and History of Development, University of Naples L'Orientale;

2013/2014: supervision of an MA theses in History of International Economic Relations and Theory and History of Development, L'Orientale University of Naples;

2014/2015: Teaching Assistant of History of International Economic Relations and Theory and History of Development, L'Orientale University of Naples;

2014/2015: Visiting Research Professor funded by the Mexican Government, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City;

2015/2016: Teaching Assistant of Economic History; L'Orientale University of Naples;

2015/2016: Teaching assistant of International Business History, L'Orientale University of Naples;



2016: habilitation to teach Master classes at Luiss University of Rome in the following discipline: economic history, History and Institutions of the Americas; History of international relations; Economic policy; Political economy

2018/2019: Member of the board of Professors of the Master course in Languages and Communication in the Euro-Mediterranean area, University of Naples L'Orientale

2018/2019: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History of globalization of markets, Master class, University of Naples L'Orientale

2018/2020: Member of the Examination board for a BA thesis in Economic History, University of Naples L'Orientale

2018/2019: Co-rapporteur for a Master Thesis and member of the Examination board for Master theses, University of Naples L'Orientale, thesis defended on 20.12.2019

2018/2019: rapporteur for a Master thesis in History of globalization of markets, thesis defended during the academic year 2019/2020 on 04.05.2020

2018/2019: Member of the board of Professors of the Master course in Languages and Communication in the Euro-Mediterranean area, University of Naples L'Orientale

2019/2020: co-rapporteur for two Master theses in International Business History, thesis discussed during the academic year 2019/2020

2019-2020: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History and Politics of Transatlantic Relations, Master Class, University of Naples L'Orientale

2019-2020: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History of Globalization of Markets, Master class, University of Naples L'Orientale

2019/2020: co-instructor with Prof. G.Moricola of the Master seminar Gli archivi delle agenzie internazionali come fonti della storia della globalizzazione;

2019/2020: member of the examination board for two BA theses in Economic History;

2020/2021: co-instructor with Prof. G.Moricola of the Master seminar Gli archivi delle agenzie internazionali come fonti della storia della globalizzazione;

2020/2021: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History and Politics of Transatlantic Relations, Master Class, University of Naples L’Orientale

2020/2021: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History of Globalization of Markets, Master class, University of Naples L’Orientale

2020/2021: member of the examination board and co-rapporteur for an MA thesis in International Business History;

2020/2021: rapporteur for a Master thesis in History of globalization of markets, thesis to be defended during the academic year 2022/2023

2020/2021: Member of the board of Professors of the Master course in Languages and Communication in the Euro-Mediterranean area, University of Naples L'Orientale

2021/2022: co-rapporteur for a Master thesis in Public Law

2021/2022: co-instructor with Prof. G.Moricola of the Master seminar Gli archivi delle agenzie internazionali come fonti della storia della globalizzazione;

2021/2022: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History and Politics of transatlantic Relations, Master Class, University of Naples L’Orientale

2021/2022: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History of globalization of markets, Master class, University of Naples L'Orientale

2021/2022: Member of the board of Professors of the Master course in Languages and Communication in the Euro-Mediterranean area, University of Naples L'Orientale

2021/2022: co-rapporteur of a Master thesis in History of International Relations

2022/2023: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History of globalization of markets, Master class, University of Naples L’Orientale

2022/2023: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History and Politics of transatlantic Relations, Master Class, University of Naples L’Orientale

2022/2023: instructor of the Master seminar Gli archivi delle agenzie internazionali come fonti della storia della globalizzazione;

2023/2024: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History of globalization of markets, Master class, University of Naples L’Orientale

2023/2024: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History and Politics of transatlantic Relations, Master Class, University of Naples L’Orientale
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2024/2025: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History of globalization of markets, Master class, University of Naples L’Orientale

2024/2025: Assistant Professor of Economic History, thought course: History of Transatlantic Relations in a Global World, Master Class, University of Naples L’Orientale
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academic proxies


2019: Member of the Gruppo del Riesame, Master course in Languages and Communication in the Euro-Mediterranean area, University of Naples L'Orientale

2020-: Member of the Gruppo Assicurazione Qualità (internal evaluation committee), Master course in Languages and Communication in the Euro-Mediterranean area, University of Naples L'Orientale

2021-: member of the “Giunta di Dipartimento” [elected-only Council of the Department], Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Naples L’Orientale

2022: Member of the Gruppo del Riesame, Master course in Languages and Communication in the Euro-Mediterranean area, University of Naples L'Orientale

2022-: Member of the Research Affairs Commission, Department of Humanities and Social Science, University of Naples L’Orientale






Language Skills

Italian: native speaker
English: teaching: excellent; writing: excellent.
French: teaching: upper-intermediate; writing: upper intermediate.
German: teaching: lower-intermediate; writing: lower-intermediate
Spanish: teaching: intermediate; writing: intermediate
Portuguese: teaching: basic; writing: basic
Japanese: teaching: beginner; writing: beginner