Giovanni Orsina

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Giovanni Orsina (born in 1967 in Rome) is an associate professor of Contemporary History at LUISS-Guido Carli University in Rome. His main fields of research and teaching are the history of political parties, comparative history of European political systems and history of journalism. For the academic year 2008/2009 he is director of the new Master in European Studies programme.

Before that, he taught contemporary history at the Universities of Bologna, L’Aquila and Roma La Sapienza.

As Scientific Director of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi in Rome, he coordinated research projects about Italian post-war liberalism. He is also involved in the Luigi Einaudi exhibition, opening at the Quirinals Palace on May 12 2008.

Orsina has held different academic positions in Great Britain and France. He has been Italian visiting fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford in the year 1997-98, visiting professor at the Institute d’Etudes Politiques in Paris in the year 2004, and at the Ecole Normale Superieure at Cachan in 2006.

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Senza Chiesa né classe. Il partito radicale nell’età giolittiana, Rome, 1998; edited (with G. Quagliariello);
La formazione della classe politica in Europa, 1945-1956, Manduria-Bari-Rome, 2000;
La crisi del sistema politico italiano e il Sessantotto. Una ricerca di storia orale, Soveria Mannelli, 2005;
Etudiants universitaires et politique en Italie, 1945-1968, «Parlement(s). Histoire et Politique», 2007;
Quando l’Antifascismo sconfisse l’antifascismo. Interpretazioni della resistenza nell’alta cultura antifascista italiana (1955-65), «Ventunesimo secolo», 2005;
The United States according to the Italian Communist Press (1945-53), «Telos», 2004 (with Elena Aga Rossi);
L’Ottocento politico inglese nella storiografia di fine Novecento, «Ricerche di storia politica», 1999;
Il dito e la luna. Politica, cultura e società nella storiografia inglese degli anni Novanta, in G. Orsina (ed.), Fare storia politica, Soveria Mannelli, 2000.

He is presently working on a revision of the history of the Italian Republic, trying to interpret it from a liberal point of view.