Born in Stanford (California – 1968). 1996: University degree in Humanities ( Letteremoderne ) at the University of Naples “Federico II” (1996). 2001: Ph.D. in History of the European Society at the Department of History of the University of Naples “Federico II” (mentor: prof. Paolo Macry, 2001. Title of the dissertation: A Pluriethnic Community from the Multinational State to the National State. Italians and Croats in Pazin-Istria between Austria and Italy ). 2001-2003: Post-Ph.D. fellow at the Department of History of the University of Padova. From 2003: Assistent of Modern History at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Naples “Federico II”.
Scholarships:
University of Utrecht (1993), Istituto Italiano Studi Filosofici, Naples (1996) and Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana (1998).
Teaching Experiences:
Professor of History of Danubian-Balkanian Europe at the University of L’Aquila – Italy (2001/02 and 2002/03). Collaborator of the Law Clinic on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2001/02). Seminars at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Naples “Federico II” (on ethnic and national identity 1997/98, on break-up of Jugoslavia 1998/99 and on ethnic groups and nations in the Balkans 1999/2000 and 2000/01), and at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Naples “Federico II” (on nationalism in the Adriatic area, 2000/01, and on the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires in the 19 th and 20 th centuries, 2001/02 and 2002/03).
Bibliography
• Elites nazionali e divisione etnica a Pisino , “Quaderni Storici” 94, 1, 1997 Roma. (144-182).
• Udruge i političko-nacionalna borba u Pazinu od 1880. do 1914 , “Nova Istra”, III, 8/1, Pula 1998.
• Nacionalna društva i politicka borba u Pazinu krajem Habsburske Vladavine , Zbornik radova sa znanstvenog skupa: Pazin i drugoj polovini 19. i početkom 20. stoljeca , , Pazin 1999 (75-106).
• Problemi skolstva i politicki problemi – poceci talijanske uprave u Pazinu , Zbornik radova sa znanstvenog skupa: Hrvatska Gimnazija u Pazinu 1899- 1999, Pazin 1999 (147-164).
• Riflessioni sul problema dell’identita etnica e nazionale nell’Istria tardoasburgica , “Ricerche Sociali”, Centro di Ricerche Storiche di Rovigno, 8-9, Trieste-Rovigno 1998/1999 (5-12).
• Il crollo dello Stato in una societa multietnica. L’Istria nel passaggio da Austria a Italia , in “Bollettino del diciannovesimo secolo”, V, 6, Napoli 2000 (87-96).
• Nacionalna asimilacija i etnicka optojnost u Pazinu 1918-1926 , Zbornik radova sa znanstvenog skupa: “Egzodus istarskih Hrvata (1918-1943)”, Institut za Povijest, Zagreb 2001.
• Il notabilato in ambiente plurietnico: italiani e croati in Istria , Atti del Convegno Le Italie dei notabili: il punto della situazione , edited by Luigi Ponziani, Istituto Abruzzese per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Italia Contemporanea, L’Aquila 2001 (in “Abbruzzo Contemporaneo” 10-11/2000, 533-551).
• Italiani e croati a Pisino tra fine Ottocento e inizio Novecento: la costruzione delle identita conflittuali , in Nazionalismi di frontiera. Identita contrapposte sull’Adriatico nord-orientale 1850-1950, edited by Marina Cattaruzza, Rubettino, Firenze 2003 (73-121).
• Il Cuore Conteso. Il nazionalismo in una comunita multietnica. L’Istria Asburgica, Filema Edizioni, Napoli 2003.
• with Olga Diklic : Studenti croati a Trieste. Il caso della scuola nautica 1754-1918 , Atti del convegno Croati a Trieste , Trieste 2001 (fothcoming).
• with Borna Furst Bijeliš and Olga Diklic: The Venetian Cadastre in Dalmatia and the Eco-historical Evaluation of the Trilex Confinium in the 18 th Century , conference papers: “The Eco-history of the Triplex Confinium (Austrian Empire/Venetian Republic/Ottman Empire)”, Zadar 2000 (fothcoming).
Filmography
• Pescatori di Mergellina – Ribari sa Mergelline , ethnographic film on the cult of Madonna dell’arco and the fishing association “Pescatori di Mergellina”, in Naples (Italy). Authors: Sanja Puljar D’Alessio, Mario I. Martone and Vanni D’Alessio. Naples 2001.