{"id":7,"date":"2026-04-17T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/index.php\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:53:40","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BGOVERLAY:start --><style id=\"bg-overlay-map\">body{background-color:#c9b89a;background-image:linear-gradient(rgba(245,235,215,0.62),rgba(245,235,215,0.62)),url('https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1862_Stieler_Physical_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_EuropaPhy-perthes-1862-scaled.jpg');background-repeat:repeat,no-repeat;background-size:auto,max(2400px,100vw) auto;background-attachment:fixed,fixed;background-position:0 0,center center;}.site-header,.site-footer,.site-info{background:transparent!important;}.site,.inside-header,.inside-navigation,.inside-site-info,.inside-article{background-color:#fbf8f1!important;}.site,.inside-header,.inside-navigation,.inside-site-info{max-width:1100px!important;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;}.widget-area.is-right-sidebar{display:none;}.site-content .content-area{width:100%!important;}<\/style><!-- BGOVERLAY:end -->\n\n\n\n<!-- PORTRAIT:start --><figure style=\"float:right;width:220px;margin:0 0 1rem 1.5rem;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/patricia.jpg\" alt=\"Patricia Chiantera-Stutte\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;display:block;\" \/><\/figure><!-- PORTRAIT:end -->\n\n\n<p><strong>Professor of History of Political Thought \u00b7 University of Bari Aldo Moro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Collaborates as editor with Erica Benner, Laszlo Kontler and Gaby Mahlberg to the Brill\/De Gruzter series &#8220;History of European and Constitutional Thought&#8221; and with some of the main academic journals in the field of history of Political Thought, as <em>Storia del pensiero politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Research Itineraries<\/h2>\n<p>The plate below traces the institutional and archival stations that have shaped this academic trajectory \u2014 from Bari in the south, through the Tuscan archives and Modena, to Saarbr\u00fccken and Basel in the Alpine\u2013Rhenish corridor, and across the North Atlantic to Boston. Hover the markers for details.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>\n.career-map{position:relative;max-width:931px;margin:1.5rem auto;}\n.career-map>img{display:block;width:100%;height:auto;}\n.career-pin{position:absolute;width:0;height:0;}\n.career-pin .dot{position:absolute;left:-5px;top:-5px;width:10px;height:10px;border-radius:50%;background:#b22;border:2px solid #fff;box-shadow:0 0 2px rgba(0,0,0,.55);display:block;}\n.career-pin:hover .dot{background:#e44;transform:scale(1.2);}\n.career-pin .leader{position:absolute;left:0;top:0;height:1px;background:#6a5a3a;transform-origin:0 0;display:block;pointer-events:none;}\n.career-pin .lbl{position:absolute;font-size:0.78rem;font-style:italic;color:#3a2f1a;background:rgba(252,250,240,0.88);padding:1px 5px;white-space:nowrap;pointer-events:none;}\n.career-pin .popup{position:absolute;left:14px;top:-10px;min-width:180px;max-width:300px;background:rgba(255,253,245,0.97);border:1px solid #6a5a3a;padding:6px 10px;font-size:0.85rem;line-height:1.35;color:#2a2a2a;display:none;z-index:10;box-shadow:0 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,.3);font-style:italic;}\n.career-pin .popup strong{font-style:normal;}\n.career-pin:hover .popup{display:block !important;}\n.career-offmap{position:absolute;left:0.5%;top:55%;max-width:28px;background:rgba(252,250,240,0.92);border:1px solid #6a5a3a;padding:5px 7px;font-size:0.78rem;font-style:italic;color:#3a2f1a;z-index:4;line-height:1.3;}\n.career-offmap strong{font-style:normal;}\n.career-offmap{transition:max-width .2s ease,padding .2s ease;}\n.career-offmap .desc{display:none;}\n.career-offmap:hover{max-width:60%;}\n.career-offmap:hover .desc{display:inline;}\n.career-offmap .arr{font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;margin-right:4px;font-size:1rem;}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"career-map\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1862_Stieler_Physical_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_EuropaPhy-perthes-1862-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"931\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1862_Stieler_Physical_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_EuropaPhy-perthes-1862-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1862_Stieler_Physical_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_EuropaPhy-perthes-1862-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1862_Stieler_Physical_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_EuropaPhy-perthes-1862-1024x835.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1862_Stieler_Physical_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_EuropaPhy-perthes-1862-768x626.jpg 768w, https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1862_Stieler_Physical_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_EuropaPhy-perthes-1862-1536x1253.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/patricia.chianterastutte.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1862_Stieler_Physical_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_EuropaPhy-perthes-1862-2048x1670.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/>\n<!-- CARD: Bari --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:49.39%;top:79.51%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Bari<\/strong> \u2014 institutional home at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Researcher 2002, Associate Professor 2015, Full Professor since 2024.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Bari -->\n<!-- CARD: Saarbr\u00fccken --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:36.99%;top:59.19%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Saarbr\u00fccken<\/strong> \u2014 PhD in Philosophy on \u201cVon der Avantgarde zum Traditionalismus\u201d (2001).<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Saarbr\u00fccken -->\n<!-- CARD: Basel --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:37.33%;top:63.26%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Basel<\/strong> \u2014 archival research on Italian and Swiss intellectual correspondence, including the Werner Kaegi\u2013Delio Cantimori letters.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Basel -->\n<!-- CARD: Pisa --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:40.38%;top:72.81%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Pisa<\/strong> \u2014 Archival research at the Scuola Normale on Delio Cantimori\u2019s and Werner Kaegi\u2019s papers.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Pisa -->\n<!-- CARD: Modena --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:41.22%;top:70.71%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Modena<\/strong> \u2014 PhD in Cultural Sciences on \u201cJulius Evola. Dal Dadaismo alla rivoluzione conservatrice\u201d (2000).<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Modena -->\n<!-- CARD: Fiesole --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:41.62%;top:72.75%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Fiesole<\/strong> \u2014 EUI Jean Monnet Fellowship on \u201cDas Europa der Antieurop\u00e4er: Ein Vergleich von Lega Nord und FP\u00d6\u201d.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Fiesole -->\n<!-- CARD: Cologne --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:37.38%;top:55.21%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Cologne<\/strong> \u2014 DAAD-funded stays at the Historisches Seminar 2 in 2008 (Mitteleuropa between the wars) and 2011 (geopolitics in the Weimar Republic); 2014 grant to co-write the Horizon 2020 &ldquo;Euroports&rdquo; proposal with J&uuml;rgen Elvert.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Cologne -->\n<!-- CARD: Leipzig --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:43.95%;top:55.14%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Leipzig<\/strong> &mdash; month at the Leibniz-Institut f&uuml;r L&auml;nderkunde in August 2008, study of Friedrich Ratzel&rsquo;s archives.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Leipzig -->\n<!-- CARD: Marburg --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:39.52%;top:55.89%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Marburg<\/strong> &mdash; visiting scholar at the Herder-Institut in 2011, &ldquo;Digitaler Atlas politischer Raumbilder zu Ostmitteleuropa&rdquo; project with Peter Haslinger.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Marburg -->\n<!-- CARD: Oxford --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:28.02%;top:50.84%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Oxford<\/strong> &mdash; month-long stay in 2020 for research on Arnold J. Toynbee; one-month visiting scholarship in August 2026.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Oxford -->\n<!-- CARD: Berlin --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:45.43%;top:52.33%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Berlin<\/strong> &mdash; family second home.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Berlin -->\n<!-- CARD: Trento --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:41.67%;top:67.40%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Trento<\/strong> &mdash; six-month grant from the Istituto Trentino di Cultura ISG in 2000, project on Delio Cantimori&rsquo;s political vision.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Trento -->\n<!-- CARD: Loveno --><div class=\"career-pin\" style=\"left:39.17%;top:67.19%;\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span class=\"popup\" style=\"display:none;\"><strong>Villa Vigoni<\/strong> \u2014 tri-lateral tri-annual conferences project &ldquo;Ordine del potere globale&rdquo;.<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Loveno -->\n<!-- CARD: Boston (off-map) --><div class=\"career-offmap\"><span class=\"arr\">&larr;<\/span><span class=\"desc\"> <strong>Boston<\/strong> &mdash; Archival work on Samuel P. Huntington&rsquo;s papers (Harvard University).<\/span><\/div><!-- \/CARD: Boston -->\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1862 Stieler Physical Map of Europe (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:1862_Stieler_Physical_Map_of_Europe_-_Geographicus_-_EuropaPhy-perthes-1862.jpg\">public domain<\/a>)<\/em><\/div>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2>Research in Focus<\/h2>\n<p>Her scholarship moves across three interlocking lines of inquiry:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Political space and geopolitics<\/strong> \u2014 Mitteleuropa, Gro\u00dfraum, imperial order, Friedrich Ratzel, Carl Schmitt, and the spatial imagination of the twentieth century.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fascism, the radical right, and populism<\/strong> \u2014 Julius Evola, Delio Cantimori, the Lega Nord, mass psychology, and the political uses of myth and memory.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Civilization and historiography<\/strong> \u2014 conceptual histories of civilization, biopolitics, and the relation between intellectual history and present-day political languages.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"\/index.php\/research\/\">Read more on the research page \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Selected Books<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Geo-Political Spaces: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt<\/em>, co-edited with Ulrike Jureit, Routledge, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><em>Civilization: Global Histories of a Political Idea<\/em>, co-edited with Giovanni Borgognone, Lexington Books, 2022.<\/li>\n<li><em>Animus comune. Le lettere di Werner Kaegi e Delio Cantimori (1935\u20131966)<\/em>, Edizioni della Normale, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><em>Il pensiero geopolitico. Spazio, potere e imperialismo tra Otto e Novecento<\/em>, Carocci, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><em>Delio Cantimori: un intellettuale del Novecento<\/em>, Carocci, 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/index.php\/publications\/\">Full publications list \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin: 2rem 0; border: none; border-top: 1px solid #d3c9b3;\" \/>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9rem; color: #5f5647;\"><em>This site draws on public university, scholarly society, and publisher sources.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of History of Political Thought \u00b7 University of Bari Aldo Moro Historian of political thought working across intellectual history, geopolitics, fascism studies, populism, and the conceptual history of civilizations. 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