I am a historian of modern Europe and the world, specialized on France and the Mediterranean, with a particular interest in decolonization, and the relationships between France, Algeria, and Italy, past and present. I teach Social History as assistant professor within the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities. I am also associate member at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford and Maison française d’Oxford.

I held funded research and teaching fellowships at Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP, Paris), École des hautes études en sciences sociale (EHESS, Paris), Maison méditerranéenne de sciences de l’homme (MMSH, Aix-Marseille University), Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle (CHS, Sorbonne), Faculty of History and Trinity College (University of Oxford), European Studies Centre (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Maison Française d’Oxford.

My research interests include: decolonization (especially focusing on Twentieth-century France, Algeria, and the Global 1960s), history of representations and social uses of the past (memory studies, oral history, and epistemology), critical theory and postcolonial studies (with a particular focus on the Mediterranean, and the relationships between France, Algeria, and Italy, past and present).

My current new research project focuses on the impact of anti-colonial struggles in the genealogy of the global 1960s. Its main hypothesis is that the French-Algerian War/Algerian Revolution, and Third-Worldism more generally, had a defining impact on the new political cultures that flourished during the ‘long 1960s’ (mid-1950s to mid-1970s), associating a renewed anti-fascism with anti-colonial struggles. Moving beyond standard histories of political parties or international relations, the project addresses the ‘cultural history of politics’ in a global perspective, encompassing local, national and transnational events, actors and networks.