PACI Deborah

Employment and affiliation

 

 

Since 2019 Adjunct professor, Department of Humanities, University of Trento

 

Since 2019 Research Associate, Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island

 

Since 2017 Assistant Professor (non-tenure track), Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

 

Since 2015 Associate Researcher, Center for Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean (CMMC), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis

 

2013-2017 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

 

Education and academic degrees

 

2017 Habilitation (qualification) for Associate Professor (maître de Conférences), Section 22 CNU (Modern and Contemporary History)

 

2013 PhD in History, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis 

 

2013 PhD in History, University of Padova

 

2008 Master in Comparative History of Civilizations, University of Paris VII Denis Diderot

 

2008 Master in European History, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

 

2006 Bachelor in Contemporary History, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

 

Research experience 

 

2016 Visiting fellow, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

 

2015 Visiting fellow, Södertörn University Stockholm

 

2013 Visiting fellow, Södertörn University Stockholm

 

2011 Visiting fellow, École française de Rome

 

2011 Visiting fellow, University of Malta

 

2009 Visiting fellow, École française de Rome

 

Research projects

 

Since 2017: "Odycceus Historical Study Case: French Antisemitism 1789-1989". This research is part of ODYCCEUS - Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Spaces 

 

2014-2017: “Floating Islands: The Representation of Mediterranean and Baltic Islands in the 19th and 21st Century”. This research is part of “Spaces of Expectation. Mental Mapping and Historical Imagination in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Regions” project 

 

Teaching 

 

Since 2019 Course "Contemporary History", University of Trento

 

Since 2017 Course "Digital History", Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

 

2018 lectures on "Digital Public History", Master in Public History, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

 

2016 lectures on “The Italian Fascism's appropriation of the Roman past and the classical heritage during Metaxas’ regime” (Course: Modern Greece in the inter-war period, 1922-40: social history and political institutions), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

 

2016 lectures on “Italy's role in the Dodecanese” (Course: War and Media: The Greek and International Dimension), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

 

2013 lectures on “Digital History”, (Master: Comparative European History), University of Paris VII Denis Diderot and Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

 

2011/2012-2012/2013 lectures on “Clifford Geertz and the relations between History and Anthropology” (Course: Cultural History), University of Padua

 

2011 lectures on “Mediterranean Islands” (Course: Seabound Imagination. Histories, Mental Mapping, and Region Building), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

 

2010 lectures on “Sicilian Literature: Justice and Law in the 19th and 20th Century (Course: History of Political Institutions), Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

 

Editorship 

 

Since 2018 Member of international editorial board of "Island Studies Journal", https://islandstudies.ca/ (digital journal - Island studies)

 

Since 2016 Member of editorial board of "Zapruder World", http://zapruderworld.org/ (digital journal - History of Social Conflict)

 

Since 2014 Director of “Tracce. Percorsi internazionali di storia contemporanea” (book series published by Unicopli, Milan)

 

Since 2009 Co-founder and director of "Diacronie. Studi di storia contemporanea", http://www.diacronie.it/ (digital journal - Contemporary History)

 

Awards and Grants

 

2015 Research Award (category: “Young Researcher”), received from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

 

2011 Scholarship, University of Malta

 

2011 Scholarship, École Française de Rome

 

2009 Scholarship, École Française de Rome

 

Institutional responsibilities

 

Since 2019 Member of the executive board, Centre for Digital & Public Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Since 2019 Member of Scientific committee, OpenEdition, https://www.openedition.org/?lang=fr

Since 2018 Member of Faculty committee, Department of Humanities, Master in Digital Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

 

Memberships of scientific societies

 

Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (SISSCO)

International Small Islands Studies Association - ISISA

Geographical Association for Archipelagic States and Small Islands (AGEI)

Association for the Study of Modern Italy

International Federation for Public History

Italian Association for Public History