The University of Cassino. 1979-1999

Graduated in Political Science from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, from 1985 to 2015 she taught History of Political Parties and Movements, and then Contemporary History at the University of Cassino. From 2001 to 2009 she held the position of Director of the Department of Philology and History at the University. She coordinated the activities of the Regional History Laboratory established within the same Department and the PhD program in Society, Politics and Institutions in the Contemporary Age. She was in charge of the Postgraduate Course (since 2005, a Master’s program) in Politics and Security in the Wider Mediterranean, organized by the University of Cassino in collaboration with the Office of Studies of the Army General Staff. On a scientific level, she has conducted research and published books and essays on aspects of Lombard industrial development during the Liberal era, on the history of the countryside and the peasant movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, on the economic and social culture and the agrarian policy choices of the Christian Democracy during the centrist years, on the birth of the Union of Italian Women, and on the comparative history of Southern Europe (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) in the twentieth century. She has promoted and coordinated research and edited publications on the history of Lazio from the end of the 19th century to the post-World War II period.