
Michele Marchi
Associate Professor - Università di Bologna
Project Manager and Module Coordinator
Associated Professor from December 2018 at the Cultural Heritage Department (University of Bologna). Since 2020, he is the coordinator of the First-Cycle Degree “Società e Culture del Mediterraneo” and Delegate for the Third Academic Mission of the Cultural Heritage Department of the Ravenna Campus. His teaching activity included courses in History of European political systems, International History, Contemporary History, History of Foreign Relations. Extensive participation in seminars, round-tables, international conferences and workshops in particular in French and Italian universities; Research activity had been conducted mainly in Italian and French archives. Main research interests are: the relationship between politics and religion in the contemporary era; the evolution of political leadership; the relations between France and Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries; the relationship between domestic politics and the process of European integration in the post-1945 period.

Annalisa Furia
Associate Professor - Università di Bologna
Special expert in migration and intercultural relations​
Associate Professor of History of Political Doctrines at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna since 2019. Her research interests include revolutionary political thought (Sieyès), modern and contemporary doctrines of human rights, citizenship and security, and feminist political thought (Martha C. Nussbaum, Joan C. Tronto). She has also been interested in the study of international aid, migration as a political res and, recently, the concept of solidarity in the history of French political thought. She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Brighton, Leeds and Aix-Marseille. She directs the University Master's degree in 'Human Rights, Migration, Paths of Intercultural Inclusion' and has participated as an expert and/or scientific coordinator in numerous European projects on the themes of human rights, migration and development.

Lucrezia Ranieri
Researcher - Università di Siena
Module Tutor
Tenure Track Researcher (RTT) at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences, University of Siena. She teaches History of Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Diplomacy in the Public and Cultural Diplomacy Master's degree course. She carried out a PhD in co-tutorship with the University of Tuscia and the Goethe Universität Frankfurt that led to the publication of the monograph "L'Italia di fronte al Modell Deutschland. The political-economic debate between the crisis of the Republic and European integration (1971-1983)'. His research interests concern Italian and German foreign policy in its relationship with the domestic, European and international dimensions, the relationship between economic policy and international relations, the history of cultural diplomacy and the role of culture in international relations.

Laura Chiara Cecchi
Ph. D. Student - Università di Trento
Module Tutor
She graduated in 2020 in International Relations, in the “International Affairs” curriculum, with a thesis in EU and Africa:
Cooperation and Security, at the University of Bologna. Interested in contemporary historical research in the fields of European
integration process and its interactions with the African continent, she was academic tutor of the course in Società e Culture del Mediterraneo in Ravenna and she is a doctorate student in International Studies at the University of Trento.