L'orario di ricevimento è martedì ore 15-17 presso il dipartimento Sagas, via San Gallo 10. Si prega in ogni caso di inviare una mail a bianca.gaudenzi@unifi.it per concordare un appuntamento.

INCARICHI ATTUALI

• Ricercatrice a tempo determinato (RtdB) in Storia contemporanea (11/HIST-03/A) presso il Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo (SAGAS), Università degli Studi di Firenze (Da 09/2025)

• Bye-Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (Da 11/2024)          

• Visiting Scholar presso l’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma  (Da 03/2022)

FORMAZIONE

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Storia, conseguito il 30/04/2011 presso il Trinity Hall e la Facoltà di Storia, University of Cambridge, relatore Prof. Sir Richard J. Evans (2006 – 2011)

• M.Phil. in Modern European History, conseguito il 22/07/2006 presso il Trinity Hall e la Facoltà di Storia, University of Cambridge, relatore Prof. Sir Richard J. Evans (2005 – 2006)

• Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere (vecchio ordinamento, indirizzo storico-culturale), Università degli Studi di Firenze e Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, conseguita il 17/06/2005, 110 magna cum laude con una tesi in Storia dell’Europa contemporanea, relatore Prof. Paul A. Ginsborg (2000 – 2005)

FELLOWSHIPS e INCARICHI di RICERCA e INSEGNAMENTO PREGRESSI

• Ricercatrice a tempo determinato (junior, RtdA) in Storia contemporanea (M-STO/04) presso la Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Libera Università di Bolzano (02/2024– 08/2025)

• Visiting Professor in storia dell’Europa contemporanea, Scuola d’Alti Studi IMT Lucca (10 – 12/2023)

• DFG Research Fellow in storia contemporanea presso l’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma (2018 – 2022)

• Research Fellow [Habilitationsstelle, per conseguire abilitazione a professore di I fascia] presso il Dipartimento di Storia e Sociologia e Zukunftskolleg (istituto per l’eccellenza nella ricerca), Università di Konstanz (2018 – 2024)

• Postdoctoral Fellow presso il Dipartimento di Storia e Sociologia e Zukunftskolleg, Università di Konstanz [Fellowship ad interim in attesa dei risultati della richiesta di finanziamento alla DFG] (03 – 08/2017)

• Marie Skłodowska Curie ZIF Postdoctoral Fellow presso il Dipartimento di Storia e Sociologia e Zukunftskolleg, Università di Konstanz (2015 – 2017)

• Visiting Professor in storia contemporanea, Dipartimento di Storia e Sociologia, Università di Konstanz (01 – 02/2015)

• College Research Associate presso il Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (2014 – 2024)

• D. Cohen Junior Research Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences presso il Newnham College e la Facoltà di Storia, University of Cambridge, selezionata tra circa 450 candidati (2011 – 2014, interruzione per malattia 02 – 09/2013; 10/2013 – 03/2014)

• Consulente storica per progetto di analisi e digitalizzazione “International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property” della Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE) e dell’Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford (2010 – 2011)

• Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellow presso l’Institute of Historical Research, London (2009 – 2010)

• JWT Fellow presso il John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Marketing and Advertising History della Duke University (North Carolina, USA) (08 – 09/2009)

ATTIVITÀ DIDATTICHE

• Da A.A. 2025/26: Titolare, corso generale “Storia contemporanea” (con M. Galfré, 36 ore) per laurea triennale in Storia; titolare, corso magistrale “Storia globale del mondo contemporaneo” (con S. Bottoni, 18 ore) per laurea magistrale in Scienze storiche; titolare, corso generale “Storia contemporanea” (36 ore) per laurea triennale in Storia e tutela dei beni archeologici, artistici, archivistici e librari), Università degli Studi di Firenze

• A.A. 2024/2025: Titolare, corso magistrale “Didaktik der Geschichte – inhaltiche Vertiefung” (30 ore); titolare, laboratori 3° anno “Didaktik der Geschichte mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Altersstufe 5-12” (60 ore); relatrice e co-relatrice di tesi di laurea triennali e magistrali (8 candidati), Libera Università di Bolzano

• A.A. 2022/2023: Spring school “Mediterranean History”, corso per studenti di laurea triennale, Dipartimento di Storia e Sociologia, Università di Konstanz (28 – 30/3/2023)

• A.A. 2021/2022: Summer school „Venedigs Kulturgüter in und nach den Kriegen des 20. Jahrhunderts – Schutz, Abtransport, Rückführung” (45 ore), titolare con PD Dr. Lutz Klinkhammer (DHI Rom), finanziato dalla Fondazione Thyssen, Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venedig/Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (25/9 – 2/10/2022)

• A.A. 2021/2022: Titolare, corso di laurea triennale ‘The restitution of colonial-era heritage in France and the UK’ (32 ore), parte di The Historical Project (HP2), History & Politics, Facoltà di Storia, University of Cambridge

• Da A.A. 2019/2020 a A.A. 2023/2024: Cultrice della materia (con la Prof. Valeria Galimi) per i corsi in “Storia della comunicazione nell’età contemporanea” (2020, 2022 e 2023), “Public History” (2021), “Storia del giornalismo” (2022-2023), Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo (SAGAS), Università degli Studi di Firenze

• Da A.A. 2016/2017 a 2017/2018: Didattica integrativa per il seminario del corso magistrale “Comparative Fascism(s)” (H. Roche - H. Malone) per M.Phil. in Modern European History (8 ore), Facoltà di Storia, University of Cambridge          
• A.A. 2014/2015: Titolare, corso di laurea triennale “Modern Italy, 1830-1945” (36 ore). Titolare, corso magistrale “The Rise of Consumer Culture in Europe, 1918-1989” (36 ore), Dipartimento di Storia e Sociologia, Università di Konstanz

• Da A.A. 2011/12 a A.A. 2015/2016: Relatrice di tesi di laurea triennale (B.A., 4 candidati) e magistrale (M.Phil., 4 candidati); esaminatrice di tesi di laurea magistrale (6 candidati) per M.Phil. in Modern European History, Facoltà di Storia, Università di Cambridge

• Da A.A. 2011/2012 a A.A. 2013/2014: Didattica integrativa per i corsi istituzionali annuali “European History since 1890” e “History  Argument and Practice” (26 ore in totale); Facoltà di Storia, Cambridge

• A.A. 2012/2013: Titolare, corso generale “Modern Italy, 1860-1945” (60 ore), Scuola di Storia, University of East Anglia, Norwich

• A.A. 2012/2013: Titolare, corso magistrale “The Rise of Consumer Culture in Europe, 1918-73” (16 ore), Facoltà di Storia, Cambridge

• A.A. 2011/2012: Titolare, corso magistrale “Gender and History” (16 ore), Facoltà di Storia, Cambridge

ATTIVITÀ ISTITUZIONALI e AMMINISTRATIVE

• Membro del Collegio Docenti del Programma di Dottorato in “Cultural Systems”, Scuola d’Alti Studi IMT Lucca (Da 11/2023 a oggi)

• Esperta del Gruppo di Lavoro per lo studio e la ricerca sui beni culturali sottratti in Italia agli ebrei tra il 1938 e il 1945 a seguito della promulgazione delle leggi razziali, stabilito con D.M. N° 323 del 17/07/2020 dal Comitato per il recupero e restituzione dei beni culturali, Ministero della Cultura: https://cultura.gov.it/comunicato/dm-323-17072020-comitato-per-il-recupero-e-restituzione-dei-beni-culturali-del-gruppo-di-lavoro-per-lo-studio-e-la-ricerca-sui-beni-culturali-sottratti-in-italia-agli-ebrei-tra-il-1938-e-il-1945-a-seguito-della-promulgazione-delle-leggi-razziali (Da 06/2021 a oggi)

• Membro della commissione di selezione per l’ammissione al corso di laurea magistrale in Scienze della Formazione per la scuola dell’infanzia e primaria, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Libera Università di Bolzano (A.A. 2023/2024 e 2024/25)

• Membro della commissione di selezione del Christie’s Grant for Nazi-Era Provenance Research, per borse di studio finanziate in occasione del 25° anniversario della firma dei Principi di Washington sull’arte confiscata dai nazisti (02 – 12/2023)

• Membro della commissione di selezione per il nuovo posto di ricercatore a tempo determinato di Storia contemporanea presso l’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma (04 – 06/2022)

• Membro della commissione di selezione per il nuovo posto di ricercatore a tempo determinato di Storia contemporanea presso l’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma (03 – 05/2019)

• Membro della commissione di selezione per la cattedra di Professor Ordinario (W3) in “Storia Globale” (successore di J. Osterhammel), Dipartimento di Storia e Sociologia, Università di Konstanz (2016 – 2017)

• Membro della commissione di selezione per il nuovo posto di ricercatore a tempo determinato presso la Cattedra in Storia Contemporanea, Università di Konstanz (05 – 07/2015)

• Membro della commissione di selezione per l’ammissione al corso di laurea triennale in Storia e in Lingue Moderne e Medievali, Newnham College, University of Cambridge (2011 – 2014)

• Membro del Modern European History Subject Group (Consiglio di Facoltà dei contemporaneisti), Facoltà di Storia, University of Cambridge (2011 – 2014)

• Membro del Governing Body e della Scrutiny Committee, Newnham College, University of Cambridge (2011 – 2014)

DIREZIONE e PARTECIPAZIONE a GRUPPI di RICERCA INTERNAZIONALI

• Co-fondatrice e co-organizzatrice del gruppo di ricerca “Arbeitsgruppe Italien”, sottocommissione dell’Arbeitkreis Provenienzforschung (Gruppo di Lavoro sulle ricerche di provenienza), associazione di professori, ricercatori e dottorandi dediti alle ricerche di provenienza e di storia della cultura materiale: https://www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/arbeitsgruppen/ag-italien/ (Da 02/2023 a oggi)

• Co-PI del gruppo di ricerca “Cultural Brokers and their Networks, 1700 to the Present”, cooperazione tra la Facoltà di Storia dell’University of Cambridge, l’Università di Konstanz e Vanderbilt University (2016 – 2018)

• Membro del gruppo di ricerca “Global Fascism”, collaborazione tra la cattedra in Storia Contemporanea dell’Università di Konstanz (Prof. Sven Reichardt) e la Columbia University (Prof. Victoria de Grazia) (2015 – 2018)

• Membro del gruppo di ricerca “Germany and the World: Cultural Exchanges and Mutual Perceptions”collaborazionetra la Facoltà di Storia dell’University of Cambridge, il Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism e ilDipartimento di storia e archeologia del Birkbeck, University of London, la Wiener Library (London) e le Università di Freiburg, Konstanz, il Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung della Technische Universität di Berlino e laFreie Universität di Berlino (2013 – 2014)

• Membro del gruppo di ricerca “Germany and the World in the Age of Globalisation”, collaborazione tra la Facoltà di Storia dell’University of Cambridge, le università di Freiburg, Konstanz e la Freie Universität di Berlino (2011 – 2012)

ATTIVITÀ EDITORIALI in RIVISTE SCIENTIFICHE di classe A

• Da 12/2023: Membro del comitato editoriale di «Passato e Presente. Rivista di storia contemporanea» (in precedenza corrispondente, dal 11/2020)

• Da 12/2019: Membro del comitato di corrispondenza di «Italia Contemporanea», periodico quadrimestrale dell’Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri

FINANZIAMENTI COMPETITIVI con REFERAGGIO ESTERNO

• Eigene Stelle della Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Consiglio Tedesco per la Ricerca), finanziamento triennale [e successiva proroga di 3 mesi causa Covid-19] per il proprio progetto di ricerca “Restitution zwischen Erstattungsalltag und Identitätspolitik: Die Rückgabe geraubter Kulturgüter in der Bundesrepublik, Italien und Österreich 1945-1998” presso l’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma (12/2018 – 02/2022)

• PI position e Research Fellowship (Habilitationsstelle, Nachwuchsgruppenleiterin e wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) della durata di 5 anni [+ proroga di 9 mesi causa Covid-19] per il proprio progetto di ricerca “The restitution of looted cultural property in Italy, the German Federal Republic and Austria, 1945-2001” presso l’Università di Kostanz [aspettativa tra 12/2018 e 3/2022 per svolgere attività di ricerca all’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, vedi sopra] (02/2018 – 11/2023)

• Marie Skłodowska Curie ZIF Postdoctoral Fellow,finanziamento biennale per il proprio progetto di ricerca “Reconstructing National Identity through Cultural Property Restitution in Cold War Europe: the Austrian and Italian cases, 1945-1961”, presso l’Università di Konstanz (03/2015 - 02/2017)

• Finanziamento triennale per il progetto “Cultural brokers and their Networks, 1700 to the present” (2016-2018) dal DAAD-Cambridge Research Hub in German Studies, Cambridge e l’International Office, Università di Konstanz, tot. 21.000€ (10/2015)

• Finanziamenti per la conferenza “Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Europe in Transnational and Global Perspective” da parte del Newnham College, il Journal of Contemporary History e il G. M. Trevelyan Fund, tot. 16.000£ (06/2014)

• JWT Fellowship presso il John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Marketing and Advertising History della Duke University (North Carolina, USA) e borsa della German Historical Society per condurre ricerche d’archivio a Durham, NC e Washington, DC, tot. 4.000$ (A.A. 2008/2009)

• Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), borsa per attività di ricerca all’Università Humboldt di Berlino e all’ Università degli Studi di Firenze, 7,800£ (A.A. 2007/2008) 

• Borse di ricerca Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Trinity Hall Research scholarship e Cambridge European Trust Bursary per finanziare il dottorato di ricerca all’University of Cambridge, tot. 42.000£ (A.A. 2006/2007 fino a A.A. 2008/2009)

• Borse del Cambridge European Trust e Trinity Hall Research Bursary per finanziare il corso di master M.Phil. in Modern European History all’University of Cambridge, tot. 13.500£ (A.A. 2005/2006) 

ALTRI FINANZIAMENTI e PREMI

• Co-vincitrice (con K. Hüls-Valenti) di un finanziamento per progetto di ricerca sulla sottrazione dei beni culturali di proprietà di individui e comunità ebraiche in Italia nel periodo 1938-1945, sponsorizzato dalla Conference Claims (CC) – World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) Looted Art and Cultural Property Initiative e finanziato dalla Fondazione “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (EVZ) del Ministero della Finanza della Repubblica Federale di Germania (BMF) per un totale di 20,000€ (Da 04/2024 a 12/2025)

• Co-vincitrice (con E. Acciai, A. Marzano, P. V. Olsen, M. C. Rioli, P.Wien) di un finanziamento per la conferenza “‘Ruling the Waves’. Transnational Radio Broadcasting in the Middle East and the Mediterranean between Production and Reception, 1920–1970”,da parte della Carlsberg Foundation (8,000€), il Danish Institute in Damascus (4,300€), il Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC, $6,000) e The American Research Institute in Iraq (TARII, $7,700) (05 – 06/2022)
• Finanziamento per la conferenza “The Return of Looted Artefacts since 1945: post-fascist and post-colonial restitution in comparative perspective” da parte della Max Weber Stiftung (30,000€) (02 – 05/2022)

• Finanziamento per la conferenza “From Refugees to Restitution: The History of Nazi Looted Art in the UK in Transnational Perspective” da Sotheby’s London (6.000£) (03/2016)

• Elezione a Bateman Scholar e conferimento del Bateman Prize “for distinguished performance during her Ph.D.”, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (07/2009)

• Borsa Socrates/Erasmus per proseguire gli studi in Storia della Germania moderna e contemporanea all’Università Humboldt di Berlino e per raccogliere fonti d’archivio per la tesi magistrale (A.A. 2003/2004)

ORGANIZZAZIONE CONFERENZE e SEMINARI (selezione)

• Co-organizzatrice della Humanities Society, seminario interdisciplinare di ricerca in scienze umane, a cadenza settimanale, per studenti, dottorandi e corpo docente, Wolfson College, Cambridge (Da 10/2014 a oggi)

• Co-organizzatrice (con C. Belmonte, N. Camilleri e L. Moure Cecchini), di due conferenze internazionali a tema ‘Colonial Objects: Material Culture of Italian Colonialism’, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom (4-5/12/2025) e The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University (26/02/2026), in collaborazione con l’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma (4 – 5/12/25 e 26/02/26)

• Co-organizzatrice (con C. Belmonte, N. Camilleri e L. Moure Cecchini), del workshop internazionale ‘Material Culture and Colonialism. Theoretical Perspectives and Methodologies between History and Art History’, Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma (04/12/2024)

• Co-organizzatrice, “L’opera da ritrovare”, seminario di formazione del Gruppo di Lavoro per lo studio e la ricerca suibeni culturali sottratti in Italia agli ebrei tra il 1938 e il 1945 a seguito della promulgazione delle LeggiRazziali, istituito presso il Comitato per il recupero e la restituzione dei beni culturali (MiBACT, decreto n. 323 del 17 luglio 2020), Sala Macchia, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (16/09/2022)

• Co-organizzatrice e moderatrice, conferenza internazionale“‘Ruling the Waves’. Transnational RadioBroadcasting in the Middle East and the Mediterranean between Production and Reception, 1920-1970”, tenutasi all'Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, all’Accademia di Danimarca e all’Università di Roma Tor Vergata (22 – 24/06/2022)

• Organizzatrice, moderatrice, discorso di apertura e conclusioni, conferenza internazionale“The Return ofLooted Artefacts since 1945: post-fascist and post-colonial restitution in comparative perspective”, convegno annuale della Max Weber Stiftung a cura dell’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, tenutasi al Goethe-Institut di Roma (16 – 18/5/2022)

• Co-organizzatrice del ciclo di seminari interdisciplinari di ricerca “Contrappunto. Modern History & Music History talks”, a cadenza bimensile, Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma (da 05/2021 a 06/2022)

• Organizzatrice e commentator, tavola rotonda su Eric Hobsbawm: A life in history di Richard J. Evans (Little, Brown/Oxford University Press, 2019), con Martin Baumeister (DHI Rom), Paul Corner (Università di Siena), Lucy Riall (EUI), Raffaele Romanelli (Sapienza Università di Roma), Università di Roma La Sapienza (18/11/2019)

• Co-organizzatrice, conferenza internazionale “The Axis Alliance in Global Perspective”, parte del progetto “Global Fascism” (Konstanz-Columbia), Università di Konstanz (07 – 10/06/2017)

• Co-organizzatrice, workshop internazionale “Fascist Brokers”, parte del progetto “Global Fascism” (Konstanz-Columbia), Università di Konstanz (10 – 12/05/2017)

• Organizzatrice principale, moderatrice, discorsi di apertura e chiusura,conferenza internazionale “From Refugees to Restitution: The History of Nazi Looted Art in the UK in Transnational Perspective”, Newnham College, Cambridge (24 interventi, 100 partecipanti) (23 – 24/03/2017)

• Organizzatrice principale, workshop internazionale “Historicising Cultural Brokers: Agency and the Limits of Power, 1700 to the present”, evento inaugurale del progetto in collaborazione tra le University of Cambridge, Konstanz e Vanderbilt, tenuto al Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (15 – 16/12/2016)

• Co-organizzatrice, workshop “Mobility. A concept and a way of life”, collaborazione tra loZukunftskolleg e la Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Università di Gerusalemme, tenuta al Museum of Art and Cars, Singen (26 – 28/6/2016)

• Co-organizzatrice dei Lunchtime Seminars [seminari interdisciplinari settimanali per studenti-dottorandi-corpo docente], Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (da 10/14 a 12/16)

• Organizzatrice principale, moderatrice, discorsi di apertura e chiusura, conferenza internazionale “Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Europe in transnational and global perspective”, tenutasi al Newnham College, Cambridge (35 interventi, 98 partecipanti) (18 – 20/9/2014)

• Co-organizzatrice, conferenza internazionale “Anglo-German Perceptions and Prejudices since 1800”, tenutasi al Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Organizzata in qualità di membro del gruppo di ricerca “Germany and the World: Cultural Exchanges and Mutual Perceptions”(2013-2014), co-finanziato dal DAAD e la Facoltà di Storia, Cambridge (21 – 23/3/2013)

• Co-organizzatrice, chair e respondent, conferenza internazionale “Germany and World Religions in the late 19th and 20th Centuries”, tenutasi al Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Organizzata in qualità di membro del gruppo di ricerca "Germany and the World in the Age of Globalisation" (2011- 2012), co-finanziato dal DAAD e la Facoltà di Storia, Cambridge (28-30/3/2012)

INTERVENTI a CONVEGNI e SEMINARI in qualità di relatrice (selezione)

• Seminario a tema ‘Material culture’ per il corso dottorale della Prof. Carlotta Sorba, European University Institute, Fiesole (12/12/2024)
• Conferenza serale/Abendvortrag all’interno del ciclo “Wiederspiegelungen/ Rispecchiamenti”, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani/Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig (10/05/2024)
• Ciclo di seminari “45 minuti/1 immagine”, organizzato da Comitato pisano del Risorgimento e dell’età delle rivoluzioni, Centro interuniversitario di storia culturale e Domus mazziniana, Pisa (06/05/2024)
• Convegno internazionale “Law without Law. Conference on the Restitution of Nazi-confiscated Art”, titolo dell’intervento: “The Restitution of Looted Art in Transnational Perspective”, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt am Oder (16-17/11/2023)
• Convegno internazionale “La Shoah in ltalia: prospettive di ricerca e politiche della memoria”, titolo dell’intervento: “Restituzioni della proprietà ebraica”, organizzato dall’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, Goethe Institut, Roma (11-12/10/2023)
• Seminario “Memorie coloniali e nation building. Italia e Germania a confronto”, Goethe Institut e Università di Roma La Sapienza (06-07/10/2023)
• Seminario “Cent’anni dopo. Il fascismo nella storiografia e nella sfera pubblica”, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà e Istituto Storico Parri, Università di Bologna (11/05/2023)
• Seminario di formazione del Gruppo di Lavoro per lo studio e la ricerca suibeni culturali sottratti in Italia agli ebrei tra il 1938 e il 1945 a seguito della promulgazione delle Leggi Razziali “L’opera da ritrovare”, Sala Macchia, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (16/09/2022)
• Presentazione del volume Le conseguenze economiche delle Leggi Razziali di Ilaria Pavan (Il Mulino 2022), organizzata dalla Fondazione Besso e dalla Fondazione Museo della Shoah, Roma (30/05/2022)
• Simposio internazionale „Europa und Deutschland 1939-45. Gewalt im Museum“, forum di discussione con Hermann Parzinger (presidente, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) e Wolfgang Eichwede (Universität Bremen), organizzato dal Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (31/03/2022)
• Conferenza internazionale “The importance of provenance research into Nazi-looted art in Italy”, Ateneo Veneto, Venezia (25/03/2022)
• Workshop internazionale “The restitution of Nazi-looted art in comparative perspectives”, Università di Bonn e Tel Aviv (02/02/2022)
• Convegno internazionale“‘Questo è stato’: arte, memoria, riparazione”, organizzato dall'Altascuola Federico Stella sulla giustizia penale dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuoreal Memoriale della Shoah, Milano (5 – 6/5/2021)
• Seminario annuale dell’Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, titolo dell’intervento: “„Die Rückkehr der Schönheit“? Die Restitution geraubter Kulturgüter in der Bundesrepublik, Italien und Österreich, 1945-1998”, Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma (14/10/2019)
• Workshop internazionale “Genocide, Restitution and Reparations: Expanding the category”, titolo dell’intervento: “Showcasing the return of Nazi-looted art in Austria, Italy & West Germany, 1945-1989”, Università di Tel Aviv (12/09/2019)
• Workshop internazionale “The Practice of Restitution and Reparations and the Historiography of the Holocaust: An Entangled History?”, organizzato da Daniel Siemens e Regula Ludi, Yad Vashem, Gerusalemme (9 – 11/09/2019)
• Giornata di studi “Una riflessione sulla storia contemporanea” organizzato dalla rivista Storica, Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología, Roma (07/06/2019)
• Seminario Annuale di Storia Contemporanea (Süddeutsches Kolloquium zur Zeitgeschichte), collaborazione tra le università di Freiburg i.B., Trier, Tübingen e Konstanz (Ulrich Herbert, Lutz Raphael, Jan Eckel e Sven Reichardt), Buchenbach (Freiburg i.B.) (31/05/2019)
• Wissenschaftlicher Beirat des DHIs Rom, titolo dell’intervento: “Die Restitution geraubter Kulturgüter in der Bundesrepublik, Italien und Österreich, 1945–1998”, Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma (09/03/2019)
• Seminario interdisciplinare della Humanities Society, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (26/02/2019)
• Workshop internazionale “Cultural Brokerage and Materiality”, Jesus College, University of Cambridge (14 – 15/12/2018)
• Workshop internazionale “Un/Certainty Reloaded”, collaborazione tra loZukunftskolleg e la Martin Buber Society of Fellows (Gerusalemme), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (27 – 30/11/2018)
• Workshop internazionale “Sequestration, Confiscation and Restitution in Wartime from WWI to the present”, Università di Napoli Federico II (13 – 15/06/2018)
• Seminario Annuale di Storia Contemporanea (Frankfurt-Tübingen-Konstanz-Augsburg Kolloquium), collaborazione tra le università di Frankfurt a. M., Tübingen, Augsburg e Konstanz, Ellwangen (01 – 02/02/2018)
• Workshop internazionale “Embedding Cultural Brokers: Institutionalisation and Impact in the Arts, Sciences and Economy”, tavola rotonda conclusiva, Università di Konstanz (06 – 07/07/2017)
• Zeitgeschichtliches Alpenkolloquium, titolo dell’intervento: “Wirtschaftswerbung und Konsum im Faschistischen Italien und NS-Deutschland”, Freising (07 – 10/07/2016)
• Workshop internazionale “Global Fascism”, Università di Konstanz (1/6/2016)
• Seminario interdisciplinare della Humanities Society, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (08/03/2016)
• Seminario di Storia Sociale ed Economica (Prof. H. Berghoff), Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Università di Göttingen (13/01/2016)
• Conferenza annuale SISCALT, “Politische Kommunikation und Neueste Geschichte in Italien und Deutschland – Comunicazione politica e storia contemporanea in Italia e Germania”, Università di Bologna (02 – 03/11/2015)
• Seminario di Storia Contemporanea (Prof. E. Conze), Università di Marburg (24/6/2015)
• Seminario di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea (Prof. J. Osterhammel e S. Reichardt), Università di Konstanz (5/2/2015)
• Modern German History Workshop, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (20/10/2014)
• Seminario di Storia Contemporanea (E. Boyar), Middle East Technical University, Ankara (19/3/2014)
• Workshop internazionale “Propaganda and Advertising in the 20th century. A comparative history of knowledge and techniques”, Università di Oslo (13 – 14/10/2013)
• Conferenza internazionale “Communication, the media and perceptions in German and British history”, Università di Konstanz (26 – 28/9/2013)
• Conferenza internazionale “Germany and World Religions in the late 19th and 20th Centuries”, Newnham College, University of Cambridge (28 – 30/3/2012)
• Panel “La pubblicità fra Italia e Usa nel ‘secolo americano’” (organizzato da F. Fasce, commento A. Arvidsson), Cantieri di Storia SISSCO VI, Università di Forlì (22 – 24/9/11)
• Workshop internazionale “The Press and popular culture in Britain and Europe, 1918-1939”, Linacre College, Università di Oxford (30/06/2011)
• Workshop internazionale “Towards a history of fascist entanglement”, British School at Rome (23 – 24/03/2011)
• Conferenza internazionale “The Personality Cults of Modern Dictators”, Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London (22 – 23/10/2010)

TERZA MISSIONE (selezione)

• Dibattito pubblico sul volume La prigionia alleata in Italia, 1940-1943 di Isabella Insolvibile, con Gianluca Di Feo e Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi, Fiera nazionale della piccola e media editoria Più Libri Più Liberi, Roma, 9 dicembre 2023

• Lezione pubblica, “La restituzione dei beni culturali trafugati dai nazifascisti dopo il 1945”, corso di didattica della Shoah per insegnanti di scuole secondarie di primo e di secondo grado, Museo dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah (MEIS) e Fondazione 1563, 5 dicembre 2023

• Tour guidato del quartiere ebraico di Roma per la Fondazione Thyssen, “Das ehemalige Ghetto Roms, 1870 bis heute” (90 minuti), 18 giugno 2023

• Recensione del volume Fascismi in vetrina (Viella 2023): G. Polimeni, “Consigli per acquisti di regime”, Il Venerdì di Repubblica, 26 maggio 2023, p. 74

• Membro del Comitato direttivo dell’associazione Amici di Passato e Presente, associazione indipendente che si occupa della promozione e del sostegno alla rivista scientifica Passato e Presente. Rivista di storia contemporanea, da gennaio 2023

• Programma televisivo (35 minuti) “Roma, 1943. La razzia delle biblioteche ebraiche”, puntata della stagione 2021/2022 di Passato e Presente, Rai 3 e Rai Storia, 28 gennaio 2022: https://www.raiplay.it/video/2022/01/Passato-e-Presente---Roma-1943-La-razzia-delle-biblioteche-ebraiche---28012022-52b6c996-40ff-4e22-9c96-f4c78bcf41ba.html

• Audizione presso il Gruppo di lavoro per lo studio e la ricerca sui beni culturali sottratti in italia agli ebrei tra il 1938 e il 1945 a seguito della promulgazione delle leggi razziali, stabilito con D.M. N° 323 del 17/07/2020 dal Comitato per il recupero e restituzione dei beni culturali, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali per il Turismo, 30 marzo 2020

• Programma televisivo (15 minuti) per la puntata d’apertura del programma “Storie Contemporanee”, Rai Storia, 20 novembre 2020: https://www.raiplay.it/video/2020/11/Pt1---Storie-contemporanee-Barbara-BraccoBianca-GaudenziMarco-De-Nicolo-62694ebb-e2b7-4bc6-bbf5-b7b4366064fb.html

• Dibattito con il pubblico e gli interpreti della pièce teatrale “Destinatario sconosciuto”, in occasione della Giornata della Memoria 2020, in collaborazione con la Comunità Ebraica di Roma e il Goethe Institut, Rom, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, 23 gennaio 2020

• Conferenza pubblica “Il ritorno della bellezza? La restituzione del patrimonio culturale in Austria, Italia e Repubblica Federale di Germania, 1945-1998” in occasione della manifestazione “Non Farmi Muro”, per il trentesimo anniversario della caduta del muro di Berlino, tenutasi al MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, 6 ottobre 2019, Roma

• Intervista: „International, ohne ‚zu luftig‘ zu sein. Welche Bedeutung eine internationale Atmosphäre für die Forschung hat. Zukunftskolleg-Fellow Dr. Bianca Gaudenzi im Interview“, uni’kon, Das Magazin der Universität Konstanz, Jubiläumausgabe/Edizione Speciale per i 50 anni dell’Università di Konstanz, N. 63, 2016, pp. 62-3.

ASSOCIAZIONI PROFESSIONALI

• Membro della Royal Historical Society (RHS)
• Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCO)
• Società Italiana per la Storia Contemporanea dell’Area di Lingua Tedesca (SISCALT)
• German History Society (GHS)
• Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)

COMPETENZE LINGUISTICHE 

• Italiano – madrelingua
• Inglese – eccellente (certificato IELTS con punteggio di 8.8 su 9, novembre 2004)
• Tedesco – eccellente (certificato DSH-3, giugno 2004)
• Francese – elementare (A2)
• Spagnolo – principiante (A1)
• Yiddish – principiante (A1: YIVO Beginners)

PUBBLICAZIONI

MONOGRAFIE

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, Fascismi in vetrina. Pubblicità e modelli di consumo nel Ventennio e nel Terzo Reich (Roma: Viella, 2023), ISBN: 9791254692967

(2)   N. Fasce, E. Bini, B. Gaudenzi, Comprare per credere. La pubblicità in Italia dalla Belle Époque a oggi (Roma: Carocci, 2016; quinta ristampa gennaio 2023), ISBN: 9788843080502 [introduzione e pp. 41-84]

NUMERI MONOGRAFICI di RIVISTE SCIENTIFICHE

(1)   B. Gaudenzi (a cura di), I lasciti materiali del colonialismo italiano/The material legacies of Italian colonialism, Sezione monografica (Themenschwerpunkt) di Quellen und Forschungen aus den Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 104 (2024), pp. 2-121, ISSN: 1865-8865 [classe A, open access]

(2)   B. Gaudenzi, L. Niemeyer (Guest Editors), Historicising the Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art, 1945 to the present, Special Issue of the International Journal of Cultural Property 28, 3 (2021), pp. 333-477, ISSN: 0940-7391

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, A. Swenson, M-A. E. Middelkoop (Guest editors), The Restitution of Looted Art in the Twentieth Century: Transnational and Global Perspectives, Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary History 52, 3 (2017), pp. 519-667, ISSN: 0022-0094[classe A]

SAGGI in RIVISTE SCIENTIFICHE

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Cultural Restitution and the “rediscovery” of the Holocaust in Italy, 1989-2003’, Journal of Modern European History 21, 3 (2023), pp. 377-394, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/16118944231180426, ISSN: 1611-8944[classe A]

(2)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘The “Return of Beauty”? The Politics of Restitution of Nazi-looted Art in Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria, 1945-1998’, European Review of History/Revue européenne d’histoire28, 2 (2021): 323-346, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2021.1885350, ISSN: 1350-7486[classe A]

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, A. Swenson, ‘Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Towards a Global Perspective’, Journal of Contemporary History 52, 3 (2017), pp. 491-518, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009417692409,ISSN: 0022-0094[classe A]

(4)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Press advertising and fascist dictates: Showcasing the female consumer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’, Journalism Studies 14, 5 (2013), pp. 663-680, ISSN: 1461-670X. Ristampato in S. Newman and M. Houlbrook (eds.), The Press and Popular Culture in interwar Europe, 1918-1939 (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 25-42; ISBN: 9780415747639

CONTRIBUTI in RIVISTE SCIENTIFICHE

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Cultura materiale e memorie del colonialismo italiano dal secondo dopoguerra a oggi’, Quellen und Forschungen aus den Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 104 (2024): pp. 2-14, doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/qufiab-2024-0002[classe A, open access]

(2)   B. Gaudenzi (introduced and edited by), Discussion forum: ‘Competing memories? The Holocaust and colonial atrocities in German history’ with contributions by David Blackbourn, Rita Chin, Gustavo Corni, Marie Muschalek, Sven Reichardt, Hannah Tzuberi, Passato e Presente 118 (2023), pp. pp. 18-52, doi: https://doi.org/10.3280/PASS2023-118002, ISSN: 1120-0650 [classe A]

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, L. Niemeyer, ‘Between material culture and “living-room art”: historicizing the restitution of fascist-looted art’, International Journal of Cultural Property 28, 3 (2021), pp. 333-341, doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739122000029, ISSN: 0940-7391

(4)   B. Gaudenzi, “Una riflessione sulla storia contemporanea”, Questioni a cura di Giulia Albanese, con E. Asquer, F. Bartolini, E. Bini, M. Bresciani, M. Di Donato,Storica 74, XXV (2019), pp. 75-89, doi: 10.23744/3256, ISSN: 1125-0194 [classe A]

CAPITOLI in VOLUMI COLLETTANEI

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, 'Vendere il fascismo. Le attività dell’Unione Pubblicità Italiana, 1922-1945', in G. D’Ottavio (a cura di), La fascistizzazione della cultura italiana tra adesione, conflitto e negoziazione [in stampa, Roma: Viella, 2025]

(2)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Crimes against Culture: From Plunder to Postwar Restitution Politics’ in S. Gigliotti and H. Earl (eds.),The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust (London: John Wiley & Sons, 2020), pp. 191-208, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118970492.ch10, ISBN: 978-1-118-97050-8

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, “Tra autarchia e vita comoda. La politicizzazione della comunicazione commerciale nella Germania nazionalsocialista e nell’Italia fascista” in S. Cavazza e F. Triola (a cura di), Parole sovrane. Comunicazione politica e storia contemporanea in Italia e Germania (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2017), pp. 135-156; ISBN: 9788815274069

(4)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Dictators for Sale: The Commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’ in J. Rüger and N. Wachsmann (eds.), Rewriting German History. New perspectives on modern Germany (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 267-287, doi 10.1057/9781137347794, ISBN: 9781137347787

RECENSIONI in RIVISTE SCIENTIFICHE

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, „Le attività del Kunstschutz in Italia tra arte e politica, 1936-1963“, recensione del volume di C. Fuhrmeister, Die Abteilung »Kunstschutz« in Italien (Böhlau 2019), Quellen und Forschungen aus den Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 101 (2021), pp. 851-852, ISSN: 1865-8865 [classe A]

(2)   G. Corni, B. Gaudenzi, G. Hirschfeld, N. Patin e W. Schieder, “Il nazismo attraverso la biografia di Hitler”, Discussioni a cura di A. Di Michele e F. Triola, Il Mestiere di Storico IX, 2 (2017), pp. 21-37, ISSN: 1594-3836

ALTRI CONTRIBUTI

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Die “Rückkehr der Schönheit”? Geplünderte Kunst im Italien der Nachkriegszeit’, Historische Urteilskraft. Magazin des Deutschen Historischen Museums, Nr. 4 (2022), pp. 44-45

(2)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘The restitution of fascist-looted cultural property in Italy, 1945-1991’, inNetwork of European Restitution Committees on Nazi-Looted Art Newsletter, N. 13(spring 2022), pp. 39-45

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Mediterranean Empires of the Interwar Period: Biopolitics, Chronopolitics, Geopolitics’, Tagungsbericht/conference report, in Quellen und Forschungen aus den Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 99 (2019), p. 520-525, doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/qufiab-2019-0022, ISSN: 1865-8865 [classe A]; pubblicato anche su H-Soz-Kult: www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8365 (9/7/2019)

(4)   Commission for Looted Art in Europe (D. Boucher, B. Gaudenzi, M.-A. Middelkoop, T. Simpson, H. Vaizey, A. Webber), ‘Introduction to The National Archives’ records on Nazi-Era Looted Cultural Property, 1939-1961’, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/looted-art-1939-1961/(The National Archives, 2011), pp. 3-17

Bianca Gaudenzi is Assistant professor (tenure-track) at the University of Florence, Italy, and Bye-Fellow in Modern European History at Wolfson College. She was recently awarded a grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to fund her project on 'The restitution of looted cultural property in Austria, Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1998'.

She previously held the posts of Research Fellow at the Free University of Bozen (2024-2025); Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome (2018-2022); Research Group Leader (Nachwuchsgruppenleiterin, Habilitationsstelle) at the University of Konstanz (2018-2024); Marie Skłodowska Curie ZIF Postdoctoral Fellow at Konstanz (2015-1017); Junior Research Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge (2011-2014) and Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London (2009-2010).

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant professor (RtdB, tenure-track) in Contemporary History (HIST-03/A) at the Department of History, Archeaology, Geography, Arts and Performative Arts (SAGAS), University of Florence (since 09/2025)

• Bye-Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (since 11/2024)          

• Visiting Scholar, German Historical Institute in Rome (since 03/2022)

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in History, awarded on 30 April 2011, Trinity Hall and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, supervisor: Prof. Sir Richard J. Evans (2006 – 2011)

• M.Phil. in Modern European History, awarded on 22 July 2006, Trinity Hall and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, supervisor: Prof. Sir Richard J. Evans (2005 – 2006)

• M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature ("History & Culture"), University of Florence and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, awarded on 17 June 2005, 110 magna cum laude, with a dissertation in Modern European History, supervisor: Prof. Paul A. Ginsborg (2000 – 2005)

FELLOWSHIPS and FORMER EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant professor (RtdA) in Contemporary History (M-STO/04) at the Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (02/2024– 08/2025)

• Visiting Professor in Modern European History, Institute of Advanced Studies IMT Lucca (10 – 12/2023)

• DFG Research Fellow in Contemporary History, German Historical Institute in Rome (2018 – 2022)

• Research Fellow [Habilitationsstelle], Department of History and Sociology, and Zukunftskolleg (Institute of Excellence in Research), University of Konstanz (2018 – 2024)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Sociology and Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz [Fellowship ad interim to await the results of her DFG application] (03 – 08/2017)

• Marie Skłodowska Curie ZIF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Sociology and Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz  (2015 – 2017)

• Visiting Professor, Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz (01 – 02/2015)

• College Research Associate, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (2014 – 2024)

• D. Cohen Junior Research Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Newnham College and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, selected among 450 candidates (2011 – 2014, sick leave 02 – 09/2013; 10/2013 – 03/2014)

• Historical consultant for the project 'International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property' of the  Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE) and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford (2010 – 2011)

• Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London (2009 – 2010)

• JWT Fellow, John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Marketing and Advertising History, Duke University (North Carolina, USA) (08 – 09/2009)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Since 2025/26: lecturer, B.A. course in “Contemporary History” (with M. Galfré, 36 hours), 1st year B.A. in History; M.A. course in “Global history of the contemporary world” (with S. Bottoni, 18 hours) 1st year M.A. in Historical Studies; B.A. course “Contemporary History” (36 hours), 3rd year B.A. in History and Conservation of archaeological, artistic, archival and bibliographic heritage, University of Florence

• A.A. 2024/2025:  Lecturer, M.A. course ‘Didaktik der Geschichte – inhaltiche Vertiefung’ (30 hours); Laboratories ‘Didaktik der Geschichte mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Altersstufe 5-12’ (60 hours); supervisor and advisor to B.A. and M.A. dissertations (7 candidates), Free University of Bozen

• A.A. 2022/2023:  Associate lecturer, Spring school ‘Mediterranean History’, B.A. course organised by prof Manuel Borutta and Sven Reichardt, Department of History & Sociology, University of Konstanz (27 – 31 March 2023)

• A.A. 2021/2022:  Lecturer, Summer School for M.A. and Ph.D. students ‘Venedigs Kulturgüter in und nach den Kriegen des 20. Jahrhunderts – Schutz, Abtransport, Rückführung’ (45 hours), co-organised and taught with PD Dr. Lutz Klinkhammer (DHI Rom), funded by the Thyssen Foundation and held at the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venedig (25 September – 2 October 2022)

• A.A. 2021/2022:  Lecturer, B.A. course ‘The restitution of colonial-era cultural heritage in France/the UK’ (32 hours), part of HP2 ‘The Historical Project’ (organised by G. Atkins), undergraduate course for History & Politics 2^nd-year students, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

• From A.A. 2019/2020 to A.A. 2023/2024: Affiliated lecturer (cultrice della materia), examiner and M.A. dissertation advisor for the B.A. courses in ‘Social History of Communications’ (2020, 2022 and 2023) and ‘History of Journalism’ (2022-2023) and for the M.A. course in ‘Public History’ (2021), Department of History, Archaeology, Geography and Arts (SAGAS), University of Florence

• From A.A. 2016/2017 to 2017/2018: Associate lecturer for the M.Phil. Option on ‘Comparative Fascism(s)’ (8 hours), graduate course for M.Phil. in Modern European History organised by H. Roche & H. Malone, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

• A.A. 2014/2015: Visiting Professor (Gastprofessur), B.A. course ‘Modern Italy 1830-1945’ (36 hours) and M.A. course ‘The Rise of Consumer Culture in Europe, 1918-1989’ (36 hours), Department of History and Sociology and Excellence Cluster ‘Cultural Foundations of Integration’, University of Konstanz

• From A.A. 2011/12 to A.A. 2016/2017:  B.A./M.Phil. dissertation supervisor (4 B.A. candidates, 4 M.Phil. candidates); M.Phil. dissertation examiner (6 candidates); Ph.D. 1^st-year examiner and B.A./M.Phil. advisor for History Tripos, MPhil. and Ph.D. programmes, Faculty of History and Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge

• From A.A. 2011/2012 to A.A. 2013/2014:  Associate lecturer for B.A. courses ‘European History since 1890’ (Paper 18) and ‘History Argument and Practice’ (26 hours in total), Faculty of History and Newnham College, University of Cambridge

• A.A. 2012/2013:  Lecturer, B.A. module ‘Modern Italy, 1860-1945’ (60 hours), School of History, University of East Anglia 

• A.A. 2012/2013:  Lecturer, M.Phil. Option: ‘The Rise of Consumer Culture in Europe, 1918-73’ (16 hours), graduate course for the M.Phil. in Modern European History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

• A.A. 2011/2012:  Lecturer, M.A. course ‘Gender and History’ (16 hours), Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

• From A.A. 2009/2010 to 2013/2014: Supervisor (small group teaching, 1 or 2 students per class, for a total of 208 hours, i.e. 26 term courses) for the B.A. course ‘European History since 1890’ (Paper 18), University of Cambridge

INSTITUTIONAL and ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES

•  Member of the Doctoral Programme Committee in ‘Cultural Systems’, School of Advanced Studies IMT Lucca (since 11/2023)

•  Elected expert ad honorem of the Working Group for the study and research on cultural property taken from the Jews in Italy between 1938 and 1945 as a result of the Racial Laws (Gruppo di Lavoro per lo studio e la ricerca sui beni culturali sottratti in Italia agli ebrei tra il1938 e il 1945 a seguito della promulgazione delle leggi razziali) established with Ministerial Decree No. 323 of 17 July 2020 by the Committee for the Retrieval and Restitution of Cultural Goods, Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBACT, now MiC): https://cultura.gov.it/comunicato/dm-323-17072020-comitato-per-il-recupero-e-restituzione-dei-beni-culturali-del-gruppo-di-lavoro-per-lo-studio-e-la-ricerca-sui-beni-culturali-sottratti-in-italia-agli-ebrei-tra-il-1938-e-il-1945-a-seguito-della-promulgazione-delle-leggi-razziali (since 06/2021)

•  Member of the admissions selection committee to the M.A. 5-year course in Primary Education at the Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano (A.A. 2023/2024 and 2024/25)

•  Member of the selection committee for the 2023 Christie’s Grant for Nazi-Era Provenance Research, three bursaries to be allocated to graduate/postgraduate researchers working on the history of Nazi-looted art on the 25^th anniversary of the Washington Principles (02 – 12/2023)

•  Member of selection committee for the new position of 5-year lecturer (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) in Contemporary History at the German Historical Institute in Rome (04 – 06/2022)

•  Member of selection committee for the new position of 5-year lecturer (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) in Contemporary History at the German Historical Institute in Rome (03 – 05/2019)

•  Member of selection committee (Berufungskommission) for the new full professorship in 19^th and 20^th century ‘Global History’ (W3, Prof Jürgen Osterhammel’s successor) at the Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz (2016 – 2017)

•  Member of selection committee for the new position of 5-year lecturer (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) in Contemporary History at the University of Konstanz (05 – 07/2015)

•  Member of the admissions selection committee to the History and MML (Modern and Medieval Languages) B.A. courses at Newnham College, University of Cambridge (2011 – 2014)

•  Member of the Modern European History Subject Group (Faculty board), Faculty of History, University of Cambridge (2011 – 2014)

•  Member of Governing Body and Scrutiny Committee, Newnham College, University of Cambridge (2011 – 2014)

LEADERSHIP and PARTICIPATION in INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUPS

• Co-founder and co-organiser of the research group Arbeitsgruppe Italien, sub-commission of the Arbeitkreis Provenienzforschung, bringing together Ph.D. students, post-docs and professors working in the field of provenance research and material culture in Italy: https://www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/arbeitsgruppen/ag-italien/ (since 02/2023)

•  Co-PI and main coordinator of the Cambridge-Konstanz-Vanderbilt research project ‘Cultural Brokers and their Networks, 1700 to the present’, cooperation between the universities of Cambridge, Konstanz and Vanderbilt, kindly financed by the DAAD-Cambridge Research Hub in German Studies at Cambridge and the International Office, University of Konstanz (2016 – 2018)

•  Member of the research group ‘Global Fascism’, collaboration between Columbia University of and University of Konstanz (Sven Reichardt-Victoria de Grazia) (2015 – 2018)

•  Member of the research group ‘Germany and the World: Cultural Exchanges and Mutual Perceptions’ (2013-2014), co-financed by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), collaboration between the Faculty of History, Cambridge, the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism and the Department of History and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, the Wiener Library and the universities of Freiburg (i.B.), Konstanz and the Freie Universität Berlin and the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung of the Technische Universität Berlin (2013 – 2014)

•  Member of the research group ‘Germany and the World in the Age of Globalisation’ (2010-2012), co-financed by the DAAD, collaboration between the Faculty of History, Cambridge and the universities of Freiburg (i.B.), Konstanz and the Freie Universität Berlin (2011 – 2012)

JOURNAL EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

• Since 12/2023:  Member of the Editorial Board of «Passato e Presente. Rivista di storia contemporanea» (Class A peer-reviewed journal); previously Correspondent (since 11/2020)

• Since 12/2019:  Member of the International Committee of Italia Contemporanea (Class A peer-reviewed journal), journal of the Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri

PEER-REVIEWED THIRD-PARTY GRANTS

•  Eigene Stelle research grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) to fund her own project ‘Restitution zwischen Erstattungsalltag und Identitätspolitik: Die Rückgabe geraubter Kulturgüter in der Bundesrepublik, Italien und Österreich 1945-1998’ for a total of 3 years [plus a 3-month extension because of Covid19] at the German Historical Institute in Rome (12/2018 – 02/2022)

•  PI position and Research Fellowship (Nachwuchsgruppenleiterin and wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) to fund her own project on ‘The restitution of looted cultural property in Italy, the German Federal Republic and Austria, 1945-2001’ for a total of 5 years [plus a 6-month extension because of Covid19] at the University of Konstanz [on leave between 12/2018 and 3/2022 to take up her position at the German Historical Institute in Rome, see above] (02/2018 – 11/2023)

•  Marie Skłodowska Curie ZIF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2-year research grant to conduct her own research project ‘Reconstructing National Identity through Cultural Property Restitution in Cold War Europe: The Austrian and Italian cases, 1945-1961’ at the University of Konstanz (03/2015 - 02/2017)

•  3-year conference grant (2016-2018) from the DAAD-Cambridge Research Hub in German studies, University of Cambridge and a grant from the International Office, University of Konstanz, for the Cambridge-Konstanz-Vanderbilt research project on ‘Cultural brokers and their Networks, 1700 to the present’ (10/2015)

•  Awarded a Newnham College Research Fellows conference grant, a Journal of Contemporary History conference grant and a G. M. Trevelyan Fund grant to subsidise her conference on ‘Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Europe in Transnational and Global Perspective’ (06/2014)

•  J. Walter Thompson Fellowship to support her work at Duke University (North Carolina, USA) and German Historical Society research grant to support her archival research in Durham, NC and Washington, DC (A.A. 2008/2009)

• AHRC Overseas Bursary to undertake archival research in Italian and German archives for 12 months, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and University of Florence (A.A. 2007/2008) 

• AHRC scholarship and Trinity Hall Research scholarship, together with a renewed Cambridge European Trust Bursary to finance her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge (A.A. 2006/2007 - A.A. 2008/2009)

• Cambridge European Trust Bursary and a Trinity Hall Research Bursary to take up her M.Phil. offer at the University of Cambridge (A.A. 2005/2006) 

PRIZES, AWARDS and other BURSARIES

•  Winner (ex aequo) of the Riberi Prize 2025 for best monograph, SISCALT (Italian Society for the Study of the Contemporary History of German-speaking Areas) (12/2025)

• Co-recipient (with K. Hüls-Valenti) of a research grant to draft a Report on the history of looting and restitution of Jewish-owned cultural property in Italy since 1938, sponsored by the Conference Claims (CC) – World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) Looted Art and Cultural Property Initiative and financed by the ‘Remembrance, Responsibility and Future’ Foundation (EVZ) of the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) for a total of 20,000€ (from 04/2024 to 12/2025)

•  Co-recipient (together with P. Wien, P. V. Olsen, A. Marzano, E. Acciai, M.C. Rioli) of conference funding by the Carlsberg Foundation (8,000€), the Danish Institute in Damascus (4,300€), the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC, $6,000) and The American Research Institute in Iraq (TARII, $7,700) for their conference ‘“Ruling the Waves”. Transnational Radio Broadcasting in the Middle East and the Mediterranean between Production and Reception, 1920–1970’ (05 – 06/2022)

•  Max Weber Stiftung conference funding for her international conference ‘The Return of Looted Artefacts since 1945: post-fascist and post-colonial restitution in comparative perspective’, 16-18 May 2022, organised with German Historical Institute in Rome and held at the Goethe Institut, Rome (30,000€) (02 – 05/2022)

•  Conference funding from Sotheby’s London for the conference ‘From Refugees to Restitution: The History of Nazi Looted Art in the UK in Transnational Perspective’ (6,000£) (03/2016)

•  Elected Bateman Scholar at Trinity Hall and awarded the Bateman Prize ‘for distinguished performance during her Ph.D.’ (07/2009)

•  Socrates European Exchange Programme scholarship to continue her studies at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and gather archival material for her B.A. dissertation (7,800€) (A.A. 2003/2004)

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS ORGANISED (selection)

•  Co-convener of the Humanities Society talk series, weekly interdisciplinary seminars for graduate students, fellows and the broader public, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (since 10/2014)

• Co-organiser (with C. Belmonte, N. Camilleri and L. Moure Cecchini) of two international conferences on the topic of ‘Colonial Objects: Material Culture of Italian Colonialism’, at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom (4-5/12/2025) and The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University (26/02/2026), in collaboration with the German Historical Institute in Rome (4 – 5/12/25 and 26/02/26)

• Co-organiser (with C. Belmonte, N. Camilleri and L. Moure Cecchini), international workshop ‘Material Culture and Colonialism. Theoretical Perspectives and Methodologies between History and Art History’, German Historical Institute in Rome (04/12/2024)

•  Co-organiser and speaker, workshop ‘L’opera da ritrovare’, training seminar of the Working Group for the study and research on cultural property taken from the Jews in Italy between 1938 and 1945 as a result of the Racial Laws (Italian Ministry of Culture, Decree No. 323 of 17 July 2020, Sala Macchia, National Library, Rome (16/09/2022)

•  Co-organiser (together with Peter Wien, Pelle Valentin Olsen, Arturo Marzano, Enrico Acciai, Maria Chiara Rioli and Jacopo Pili) and chair, international conference ‘“Ruling the Waves”. Transnational Radio Broadcasting in the Middle East and the Mediterranean between Production and Reception, 1920–1970’, Danish Academy in Rome/University of Rome Tor Vergata/German Historical Institute in Rome (22 – 24/06/2022)

•  Organiser, chair, opening and closing remarks, international conference ‘The Return of Looted Artefacts since 1945: post-fascist and post-colonial restitution in comparative perspective’, annual conference of the Max Weber Stiftung, Goethe Institut, Rome (16 – 18/5/2022)

•  Co-founder and co-convener of Contrappunto - Modern History and Music History Talks,interdisciplinary bi-monthly research seminar, German Historical Institute in Rome (da 05/2021 a 06/2022)

•  Organiser and speaker, roundtable on Eric Hobsbawm: A life in history by Sir Richard J. Evans (Little, Brown/Oxford University Press, 2019), with Martin Baumeister (GHI Rome), Paul Corner (University of Siena), Lucy Riall (EUI), Raffaele Romanelli (University of Rome La Sapienza), Sapienza University of Rome (18/11/2019)

•  Co-organiser and commentator, international conference ‘The Axis Alliance in Global Perspective’ organised by the Columbia-Konstanz ‘Global Fascism’ research team, University of Konstanz (07 – 10/06/2017)

•  Co-organiser and commentator, international workshop ‘Fascist brokers: Transnational networking in and beyond Europe’, University of Konstanz (10 – 12/05/2017)

•  Main organiser, international conference ‘From Refugees to Restitution: The History of Nazi Looted Art in the UK in Transnational Perspective’, Newnham College, Cambridge (23 – 24/03/2017)

•  Main organiser and project coordinator, international workshop ‘Historicising Cultural Brokers: Agency and the Limits of Power, 1700 to the present’, launching event of the Konstanz-Cambridge-Vanderbilt research project on ‘Cultural brokers and their Networks, 1700 to the present’, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (15 – 16/12/2016)

•  Co-convener of the Lunchtime Seminars, weekly interdisciplinary seminars for students and fellows, Wolfson College, Università di Cambridge (from 10/14 to 12/16)

• Main organiser, international conference ‘Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Europe in transnational and global perspective’, Newnham College, Cambridge (18 – 20/9/2014)

•  Co-organiser, international conference ‘Anglo-German Perceptions and Prejudices since 1800’, organised within the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Faculty of History, Cambridge joint project ‘Germany and the World: Cultural Exchanges and Mutual Perceptions’, Newnham College, Cambridge [organized but not attended for serious illness] (21 – 23/3/2013)

•  Co-organiser and commentator, international conference ‘Germany and World Religions in the late 19^th and 20^th Centuries’, organised within the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Faculty of History (Cambridge) joint project ‘Germany and the World in the Age of Globalisation’, Newnham College, Cambridge (28-30/3/2012)

TALKS and PAPERS given (selection)

•  Invited speaker, graduate workshop ‘Material culture’, organised by prof C. Sorba, European University Institute, Florence (12/12/2024)
• Chair and discussant, international workshop ‘Quo vadis provenance research? Primary Sources and Archival Collections in post-unitarian Italy’, Bibliotheca Hertiziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome (26-27/09/2024)
• Keynote speaker, evening lecture for the conference series ‘Wiederspiegelungen/Rispecchiamenti’, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani/Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig (10/05/2024)
• Invited speaker, seminar series ‘45 minuti/1 immagine’, organised by the Comitato pisano del Risorgimento e dell’età delle rivoluzioni, the Centro interuniversitario di storia culturale and the Domus mazziniana, Pisa (06/05/2024)
•  Invited speaker, international conference ‘Law without Law. Conference on the Restitution of Nazi-confiscated Art’, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt am Oder (16-17/11/2023)
•  Invited speaker, conference ‘La Shoah in ltalia: prospettive di ricerca e politiche della memoria’, organised by the German Historical Institute in Rome, Goethe Institut, Roma (11-12/10/2023)
•  Chair and discussant, workshop ‘Memorie coloniali e nation building. Italia e Germania a confronto’, Goethe Institut and Università di Roma La Sapienza (06-07/10/2023)
•  Invited speaker, workshop ‘Cent’anni dopo. Il fascismo nella storiografia e nella sfera pubblica’, Istituto Storico Parri and Department of History, Culture & Civilisation, University of Bologna (11/05/2023)
•  Invited speaker, workshop ‘L’opera da ritrovare’, training seminar of the Working Group for the study and research on cultural property taken from the Jews in Italy between 1938 and 1945 as a result of the Racial Laws, Sala Macchia, National Library, Rome (16/09/2022)

• Discussant, book launch: The economic consequences of the Racial Laws by Ilaria Pavan, Fondazione Besso and Fondazione Museo della Shoah, Rome (30/05/2022)

• Invited speaker, international Symposium ‘Europa und Deutschland 1939-45. Gewalt im Museum’, panel discussion with Hermann Parzinger (President, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) and Wolfgang Eichwede (Universität Bremen), organised by the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (31/03/22)

• Invited speaker, international conference ‘The importance of provenance research into Nazi-looted art in Italy’, organised at the Ateneo Veneto, Venice (25/03/22)

• Invited speaker, international conference ‘The “return of beauty”. The restitution of Nazi-looted art in comparative perspectives’, Universities of Bonn and Tel Aviv (02/02/22)

• Invited speaker, graduate seminar on the History of Museums, University of Udine (07/12/21)

• Invited speaker, international conference ‘This has been: art, memory, restitution’, organised by the University of Milan Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Shoah Memorial, Milan (05 – 06/05/21)

• Invited speaker, international workshop ‘Genocide, Restitution and Reparations: Expanding the category’, University of Tel Aviv (12/09/19)

• Invited speaker, international workshop ‘The Practice of Restitution and Reparations and the Historiography of the Holocaust: An Entangled History?’, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem (09 – 11/09/19)

• Invited speaker, workshop ‘Una riflessione sulla storia contemporanea’ organised by the Class-A journal Storica, Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología, Rome (07/06/2019)

• Speaker, Annual South German Research Seminar (meeting of the Chairs of Contemporary History at the Universities of Freiburg i.B. - Trier - Tübingen -Konstanz (U. Herbert, L. Raphael, J. Eckel e S. Reichardt), Buchenbach (Freiburg i.B.) (31/5-1/06/19)

• Speaker, international workshop “Cultural Brokerage and Materiality”, Jesus College, University of Cambridge (14-15/12/18)

• Speaker, workshop “Un/Certainty Reloaded”, Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (27-30/11/18)

• Invited speaker, international workshop ‘Sequestration, Confiscation and Restitution in Wartime from WWI to the present’, University of Naples Federico II (13-15/06/18)

• Invited speaker, Seminar for Economic and Social History (Prof H. Berghoff), Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, University of Göttingen (13/01/2016)

• Invited speaker, annual SISCALT conference ‘Politische Kommunikation und Neueste Geschichte in Italien und Deutschland – Comunicazione politica e storia contemporanea in Italia e Germania’, University of Bologna (2-3/11/15)

• Invited speaker, Senior Seminar for Contemporary History (Prof E. Conze) and Doktoranden-Forum, University of Marburg (24-25/06/15)

• Speaker, Seminar for Modern and Contemporary History (Prof Osterhammel & Prof Reichardt), University of Konstanz (05/02/15)

• Invited speaker, international workshop ‘Propaganda and Advertising in the 20^th century’, University of Oslo (13-14/10/13)

• Speaker, international conference ‘Communication, the media and perceptions in German and British history’, University of Konstanz (26-28/09/13)

• Speaker and panel co-ordinator, national biannual conference of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (SISSCO) ‘Cantieri di Storia VI’, University of Forlì (22-24/09/11)

• Speaker, workshop ‘The Press and popular culture in Britain and Europe, 1918-1939’, Linacre College, University of Oxford (30/06/2011)

• Speaker, international workshop ‘Towards a history of fascist entanglement’, British School at Rome (23-24/03/2011)

• Speaker, international conference on ‘The Personality Cults of Modern Dictators’, Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, London (22-23/10/2010)

OUTREACH and MEDIA PRESENCE (selection)

• Public debate on the monograph La prigionia alleata in Italia, 1940-1943 by Isabella Insolvibile, together with journalist Gianluca Di Feo and historian Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi, Fiera nazionale della piccola e media editoria Più Libri Più Liberi, Rome, 9 December 2023

• Teacher training lecture, ‘La restituzione dei beni culturali trafugati dai nazifascisti dopo il 1945’, part of the training course in the history of the Shoah for primary and secondary schoolteachers, organised by the Museo dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah (MEIS) and the Fondazione 1563, 5 December 202

• Member of the Directing Board of the Association Amici di Passato e Presente, independent association finalised to organising events and supporting the class A scientific journal Passato e Presente. Rivista di storia contemporanea, since January 2023

• Book review of her monograph Fascismi in vetrina (Viella 2023): F. Fasce, ‘Commercio e politica. Così fascisti e nazisti costruirono la macchina del consenso popolare’, Il Secolo XIX, 19 October 2023

• Guided tour of the former Jewish “ghetto” of Rome for the Thyssen Foundation, “Das ehemalige Ghetto Roms, 1870 bis heute” (90 minutes), 18 June 2023

• Book review of her monograph Fascismi in vetrina (Viella 2023): G. Polimeni, ‘Consigli per acquisti di regime’, Il Venerdì (weekly supplement to La Repubblica), 26 May 2023, p. 74

• TV programme (35 minutes) on Holocaust Remembrance Day for ‘Passato e Presente’ (Italy’s main history TV programme), hosted by Paolo Mieli, on Rai 3 and RaiStoria, 28 January 2022, visible on Rayplay: https://www.raiplay.it/video/2022/01/Passato-e-Presente---Roma-1943-La-razzia-delle-biblioteche-ebraiche---28012022-52b6c996-40ff-4e22-9c96-f4c78bcf41ba.html

• Audition at the Working Group for the study and research on cultural property taken from the Jews in Italy between 1938 and 1945 as a result of the Racial Laws, established with Ministerial Decree No. 323 of 17 July 2020 by the Committee for the Retrieval and Restitution of Cultural Goods, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (MiBACT, now MiC), 30 March 2020

• TV programme (15 minutes) for the opening episode of the new national programme ‘Storie Contemporanee’, hosted by historians Michela Ponzani and Marco Mondini, Rai Storia, 20 November 2020, visible on Raiplay: https://www.raiplay.it/video/2020/11/Pt1---Storie-contemporanee-Barbara-BraccoBianca-GaudenziMarco-De-Nicolo-62694ebb-e2b7-4bc6-bbf5-b7b4366064fb.html

• Public event with the actors/director of the play ‘Address unknown’, organised in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Rome and the Goethe Institut on the Day of Remembrance 2020, 75^th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps, Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Rome, 23 January 2020

• Public talk“Il ritorno della bellezza? La restituzione del patrimonio culturale in Austria, Italia e Repubblica Federale di Germania, 1945-1998”, part of the 2-day public event “Non Farmi Muro” celebrating the 30^th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, held at the MAXXI, Rome, 6 October 2019

• Book review of her volume Comprare per credere (Carrocci 2016): V. Castronovo, ‘E adesso…pubblicità! Dalla Belle Époque a oggi’, Il Sole 24 ore, 18 September 2016, p. 41

• Book review of her volume Comprare per credere (Carrocci 2016): M. Panarari, ‘Vendo tutto, la storia italiana raccontata dalla pubblicità’, Il Venerdì (weekly supplement to La Repubblica), 16 September 2016, p. 50

• Book review of her volume Comprare per credere (Carrocci 2016): S. Caroli, ‘Pubblicità in Italia?’, Il Giornale di Brescia, 10 July 2016, p. 34

• Interview: ‘International, ohne “zu luftig” zu sein. Welche Bedeutung eine internationale Atmosphäre für die Forschung hat. Zukunftskolleg-Fellow Dr. Bianca Gaudenzi im Interview’, in uni’kon, Das Magazin der Universität Konstanz, Jubiläumausgabe/50 Years Anniversary Edition, No. 63 2016, pp. 62-3

• Book review of her volume Comprare per credere (Carrocci 2016): G. Galletta, ‘Alla storia serve pubblicità’, Il Secolo XIX, 28 May 2016, pp. 5-7

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Member of the Royal Historical Society (RHS)
• German History Society (GHS)
• Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)
• Italian Society for the Contemporary History of German-speaking Areas (SISCALT)
• Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (SISSCO)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Italian – native speaker
• English – excellent (IELTS certificate, 8.8 out of 9, November 2004)
• German – excellent (DSH-3 certificate, June 2004)
• French – basic (A2)
• Spanish – basic (A1)
• Yiddish – basic (YIVO Beginners I)

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, Fascismi in vetrina. Pubblicità e modelli di consumo nel Ventennio e nel Terzo Reich (Rome: Viella, 2023), ISBN: 9791254692967. Winner of the 2025 Riberi Prize for best monograph (ex aequo), SISCALT

(2)   N. Fasce, E. Bini, B. Gaudenzi, Comprare per credere. La pubblicità in Italia dalla Belle Époque a oggi (Rome: Carocci, 2016; quinta ristampa gennaio 2023), ISBN: 9788843080502 [Introduction and pp. 41-84]

SPECIAL ISSUES of PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

(1)   B. Gaudenzi (ed.), I lasciti materiali del colonialismo italiano/The material legacies of Italian colonialism, Special Section (Themenschwerpunkt) of Quellen und Forschungen aus den Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 104 (2024), pp. 2-121, ISSN: 1865-8865 [class A, open access]

(2)   B. Gaudenzi, L. Niemeyer (Guest Editors), Historicising the Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art, 1945 to the present, Special Issue of the International Journal of Cultural Property 28, 3 (2021), pp. 333-477, ISSN: 0940-7391

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, A. Swenson, M-A. E. Middelkoop (Guest editors), The Restitution of Looted Art in the Twentieth Century: Transnational and Global Perspectives, Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary History 52, 3 (2017), pp. 519-667, ISSN: 0022-0094 [class A]

ARTICLES in PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Cultural Restitution and the “rediscovery” of the Holocaust in Italy, 1989-2003’, Journal of Modern European History 21, 3 (2023), pp. 377-394, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/16118944231180426, ISSN: 1611-8944 [class A]

(2)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘The “Return of Beauty”? The Politics of Restitution of Nazi-looted Art in Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria, 1945-1998’, European Review of History/Revue européenne d’histoire 28, 2 (2021), pp. 323-346, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2021.1885350, ISSN: 1350-7486 [class A]

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, A. Swenson, ‘Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Towards a Global Perspective’, Journal of Contemporary History 52, 3 (2017), pp. 491-518, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009417692409,ISSN: 0022-0094 [class A]

(4)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Press advertising and fascist dictates: Showcasing the female consumer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’, Journalism Studies 14, 5 (2013), pp. 663-680, ISSN: 1461-670X. Ristampato in S. Newman and M. Houlbrook (eds.), The Press and Popular Culture in interwar Europe, 1918-1939 (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 25-42; ISBN: 9780415747639

CONTRIBUTIONS in PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Cultura materiale e memorie del colonialismo italiano dal secondo dopoguerra a oggi’, Quellen und Forschungen aus den Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 104 (2024): pp. 2-14, doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/qufiab-2024-0002[class A, open access]

(2)   B. Gaudenzi (introduced and edited by), Discussion forum: ‘Competing memories? The Holocaust and colonial atrocities in German history’ with contributions by David Blackbourn, Rita Chin, Gustavo Corni, Marie Muschalek, Sven Reichardt, Hannah Tzuberi, Passato e Presente 118 (2023): pp. 18-52, doi: https://doi.org/10.3280/PASS2023-118002, ISSN: 1120-0650 [class A]

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, L. Niemeyer, ‘Between material culture and “living-room art”: historicizing the restitution of fascist-looted art’, International Journal of Cultural Property 28, 3 (2021), pp. 333-341, doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739122000029, ISSN: 0940-7391

(4)   B. Gaudenzi, “Una riflessione sulla storia contemporanea”, Questioni a cura di Giulia Albanese, con E. Asquer, F. Bartolini, E. Bini, M. Bresciani, M. Di Donato, Storica 74, XXV (2019), pp. 75-89, doi: 10.23744/3256, ISSN: 1125-0194 [class A]

CHAPTERS in EDITED BOOKS

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, 'Vendere il fascismo: l’Unione pubblicità italiana al servizio del regime', in G. D’Ottavio (ed.), Le mani sulla cultura. Adesione, negoziazione e coercizione nell’Italia fascista (Rome: Viella, 2025), pp. 123-148

(2)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Crimes against Culture: From Plunder to Postwar Restitution Politics’ in S. Gigliotti and H. Earl (eds.),The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust (London: John Wiley & Sons, 2020), pp. 191-208, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118970492.ch10, ISBN: 978-1-118-97050-8

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, “Tra autarchia e vita comoda. La politicizzazione della comunicazione commerciale nella Germania nazionalsocialista e nell’Italia fascista” in S. Cavazza e F. Triola (a cura di), Parole sovrane. Comunicazione politica e storia contemporanea in Italia e Germania (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2017), pp. 135-156; ISBN: 9788815274069

(4)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Dictators for Sale: The Commercialisation of the Duce and the Führer in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’ in J. Rüger and N. Wachsmann (eds.), Rewriting German History. New perspectives on modern Germany (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 267-287, doi 10.1057/9781137347794, ISBN: 9781137347787

BOOK REVIEWS in CLASS-A JOURNALS

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, „Le attività del Kunstschutz in Italia tra arte e politica, 1936-1963“, recensione del volume di C. Fuhrmeister, Die Abteilung »Kunstschutz« in Italien (Böhlau 2019), Quellen und Forschungen aus den Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 101 (2021), pp. 851-852, ISSN: 1865-8865 [classe A]

(2)   G. Corni, B. Gaudenzi, G. Hirschfeld, N. Patin e W. Schieder, “Il nazismo attraverso la biografia di Hitler”, Discussioni a cura di A. Di Michele e F. Triola, Il Mestiere di Storico IX, 2 (2017), pp. 21-37, ISSN: 1594-3836

MAGAZINE ARTICLES and MISCELLANEA

(1)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Die “Rückkehr der Schönheit”? Geplünderte Kunst im Italien der Nachkriegszeit’, Historische Urteilskraft. Magazin des Deutschen Historischen Museums, Nr. 4 (2022), pp. 44-45

(2)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘The restitution of fascist-looted cultural property in Italy, 1945-1991’, Network of European Restitution Committees on Nazi-Looted Art Newsletter, N. 13(spring 2022), pp. 39-45

(3)   B. Gaudenzi, ‘Mediterranean Empires of the Interwar Period: Biopolitics, Chronopolitics, Geopolitics’, Tagungsbericht/conference report, Quellen und Forschungen aus den Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 99 (2019), p. 520-525, doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/qufiab-2019-0022, ISSN: 1865-8865 [classe A]; pubblicato anche su H-Soz-Kult: www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8365 (9/7/2019)

(4)   Commission for Looted Art in Europe (D. Boucher, B. Gaudenzi, M.-A. Middelkoop, T. Simpson, H. Vaizey, A. Webber), ‘Introduction to The National Archives’ records on Nazi-Era Looted Cultural Property, 1939-1961’, http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/looted-art-1939-1961/(The National Archives, 2011), pp. 3-17

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Her research interests lie in the cultural and social history of 20th-century Germany, Italy and Austria, with a particular focus on the history of consumer culture and its political implications during the Fascist and Nazi regimes, and the restitution of looted cultural heritage in the post-1945 period. Previous research projects covered the history of women's role and representation in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and the commercialisation of the Führer and the Duce in interwar Europe.