Corinna GUERRA
- Position
- Adjunct Professor
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corinna.guerra@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- History of Science and Technology [PHIL-02/B]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/corinna.guerra (personal record)
Office hours
Students can always ask for an appointment online for any day of the week by sending an email to the professor.
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Storia della scienza e delle tecniche [PHIL-02/B]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa
- Known languages
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Italiano
(scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Francese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Spagnolo (scritto: base parlato: base)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
- Archivio Storico per le Province Napoletane
Publication highlights
Merzliakova, Alina; Guerra, Corinna Can Habits be Changed to Foster Sustainability? in TOPOI, vol. 1 (ISSN 0167-7411)
DOI - URL correlato 2026,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5110567
Corinna Guerra Constructing the Landscape through Environmental Humanities. An overview , LATITUDES. Situated Reflections on Architectural Research, Umeå, Umeå University, pp. 722-727, Convegno: EURAU 2026 12th Symposium. LATITUDES. Situated Reflections on Architectural Research, 10–13 June 2026 (ISBN 978-91-6850-075-1)
- URL correlato 2026,
Abstract in Atti di convegno - ARCA card: 10278/5123307
Corinna Guerra;
Marie-Aline Thebaud-Sorger What the "Workshops of Nature" should represent in the Eighteenth century in DICIOTTESIMO SECOLO, vol. 10, pp. 91-98 (ISSN 2531-4165)
DOI - URL correlato 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5098547
corinna guerra Abiti e catastrofi: modelli di storia della scienza tra passato e presente , Abiti individuali e sociali tra azione, cognizione e linguaggio. Prospettive filosofiche interdisciplinari, Mim Edizioni srl, pp. 89-102 (ISBN 9791222320779)
- URL correlato 2025,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5098170
Corinna Guerra Migrazioni (climatiche) , Inclusione e intercultura: un lessico filosofico, Roma, Carocci, pp. 207-216 (ISBN 9788829030828)
- URL correlato 2025,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5098468
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Historian of science specializing in the development of 18th century chemistry in the South of Italy and of natural disasters. Her focus had been Mount Vesuvius as a multidimensional chemical object and the relationship between geochemical peculiarities of a territory and the evolution of scientific disciplines.
Since joining Ca' Foscari in 2021, she has been applying the history of science to environmental studies. She infact created the first international Winter School in Interdisciplinary Biodiversity for the National Biodiversity Future Centre.
She collaborates to the first Italian Max Planck Partner Group The Water City and she has been Scientific Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair ‘Water Heritage and Sustainable Development’.
After her Ph.D. under the supervision of prof. Longo of the Department of Chemistry, she worked at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria, the Centre Alexandre Koyré of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Paris-Saclay University. In France she obtained the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (Full professorship) in 2025.
Among her teaching experiences, she gave a lecture during the Semaine interdisciplinaire Université Paris Science et Lettres: “Chemistry in history, philosophy, art and literature” for the MD students of Mines Paris Tech, Chimie ParisTech, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI).
Since 2017 she’s been a Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Conference of the History of Chemistry, by the Working Party on the History of Chemistry of European Chemical Society.
In March 2023, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei invited Guerra to give the "Conferenza Lincea" following the 6 February 2023 earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
From 2015 to 2018 was an Honorary Research Associate at University College London untill 2024 she also Associate Researcher at the LabEx HASTEC (EPHE-PSL) - Laboratoire d'Excellence Histoire, Anthropologie, Savoirs, Techniques et Croyances.
Her first book, "Lavoisier e Parthenope” (Naples 2017), was awarded the Prize for Young Historians by the International Academy of the History of Science, she in fact has been appointed among the 100 Italian (women) Experts for the History and Philosophy Area 100esperte.it
As part of the Public Engagement and Science Dissemination, promotion of equity, inclusion and gender equality in science, she was a member of the university-funded project WE+ are Science.
As for talks and conference papers, please, go to: Academia.edu
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