Professor of History of Political Thought · University of Bari Aldo Moro
Historian of political thought working across intellectual history, geopolitics, fascism studies, populism, and the conceptual history of civilizations. Writes in Italian, German, and English on the political uses of space, ideology, and historical narrative.
Appointed researcher at the University of Bari in 2002, associate professor in 2015, and full professor in January 2024. Currently Vice President of the European Society for the History of Political Thought and active in the Italian Association for the History of Political Thought.
Collaborates as editor with Erica Benner, Laszlo Kontler and Gaby Mahlberg to the Brill/De Gruzter series “History of European and Constitutional Thought” and with some of the main academic journals in the field of history of Political Thought, as Storia del pensiero politico.
Research Itineraries
The plate below traces the institutional and archival stations that have shaped this academic trajectory — from Bari in the south, through the Tuscan archives and Modena, to Saarbrücken and Basel in the Alpine–Rhenish corridor, and across the North Atlantic to Boston. Hover the markers for details.
Research in Focus
Her scholarship moves across three interlocking lines of inquiry:
- Political space and geopolitics — Mitteleuropa, Großraum, imperial order, Friedrich Ratzel, Carl Schmitt, and the spatial imagination of the twentieth century.
- Fascism, the radical right, and populism — Julius Evola, Delio Cantimori, the Lega Nord, mass psychology, and the political uses of myth and memory.
- Civilization and historiography — conceptual histories of civilization, biopolitics, and the relation between intellectual history and present-day political languages.
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Selected Books
- Geo-Political Spaces: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt, co-edited with Ulrike Jureit, Routledge, 2025.
- Civilization: Global Histories of a Political Idea, co-edited with Giovanni Borgognone, Lexington Books, 2022.
- Animus comune. Le lettere di Werner Kaegi e Delio Cantimori (1935–1966), Edizioni della Normale, 2019.
- Il pensiero geopolitico. Spazio, potere e imperialismo tra Otto e Novecento, Carocci, 2014.
- Delio Cantimori: un intellettuale del Novecento, Carocci, 2011.
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