Nicola Camilleri
I am a historian of 19th and 20th century Europe in a global perspective. My research cofuses on Germany and Italy, and their entanglements with other world regions (especially Africa). My profile has developed so far along two interrelated lines of research. The first deals with the history of citizenship, its norms and its practices in the imperial space; the second with the history of sociability and militarism.
Currently, I am Ludwig und Margarethe Quidde Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome. In the Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 I have been fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, New York.
I have served as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC project (ERC-StG-2015 n. 677199) "PREWArAs – The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War" based at the University of Padova - Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA) (2019-22). Related to my research activity in the above-mentioned ERC project, I have received fellowships from the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2023 and 2022), the German Historical Institute Washington DC (2023), the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka (2022/23) and the German Historical Institute in Paris (2022).
Education:
- Ph.D. in Modern History, Free University of Berlin, 2017, Berlin (Germany) Ph.D thesis: 'Koloniale Untertanen. Die Politik der Staatsangehörigkeit im Italienischen Eritrea und Deutsch-Ostafrika (1882-1919)' ['Colonial Subjects. Citizenship Policy in Italian Eritrea and German East Africa (1882-1919)'], supervisor: Prof. Dieter Gosewinkel, mark: magna cum laude
- MA in History (laurea specialistica), University of Naples Federico II, 2008, Naples (Italy). Thesis 'Il concetto di libertà di stampa nello Staatslexikon di Carl von Rotteck and Carl Theodor Welcker' ['The Concept of Press Freedom in Carl von Rotteck and Carl Theodor Welcker's Staatslexikon'], supervisor: Prof. Marco Meriggi; mark: 110 e lode / 110
- BA in History (laurea triennale), University of Naples Federico II, 2005, Naples (Italy)
So far, I held postdoctoral scholarships (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, 2019; Remarque Institute, NYU in New York City, 2018), doctoral stipends (German Historical Institute, Rome, 2011, 2014; Fazit Stiftung, 2016; Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, 2015; Elsa Neumann fellowship of the Federal State of Berlin, 2011-2013) and visiting positions (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin, 2021/2022; University of Bielefeld, Department of History, 2020; Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut at the Hamburg University, 2016).
Moreover, I have been teaching assistant ("cultore della materia") in African history at the University of Pavia, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Prof. Massimo Zaccaria, and in modern history at the University of Padua, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the ancient World (DiSSGeA).
I have published the monographs "Staatsangehörigkeit und Rassismus. Rechtsdiskurse und Verwaltungspraxis in den Kolonien Eritrea und Deutsch-Ostafrika (1882-1919)", (Frankfurt am Main 2021), and "Una cultura delle armi. Identità maschile e società di tiro nell'Impero tedesco (1871-1914)" (Rome 2024), and translated from German into Italian the book by Sebastian Conrad 'Storia globale. Un'introduzione' published by Carocci, Rome in 2015 and reprinted six times by now (original version: 'Globalgeschichte. Eine Einführung', C. G. Beck: Munich 2013).
My work has appeared among other venues in European History Quarterly, the Journal of Modern European History and Northeast African Studies.
Currently, I am Ludwig und Margarethe Quidde Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome. In the Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 I have been fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, New York.
I have served as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC project (ERC-StG-2015 n. 677199) "PREWArAs – The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War" based at the University of Padova - Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA) (2019-22). Related to my research activity in the above-mentioned ERC project, I have received fellowships from the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2023 and 2022), the German Historical Institute Washington DC (2023), the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka (2022/23) and the German Historical Institute in Paris (2022).
Education:
- Ph.D. in Modern History, Free University of Berlin, 2017, Berlin (Germany) Ph.D thesis: 'Koloniale Untertanen. Die Politik der Staatsangehörigkeit im Italienischen Eritrea und Deutsch-Ostafrika (1882-1919)' ['Colonial Subjects. Citizenship Policy in Italian Eritrea and German East Africa (1882-1919)'], supervisor: Prof. Dieter Gosewinkel, mark: magna cum laude
- MA in History (laurea specialistica), University of Naples Federico II, 2008, Naples (Italy). Thesis 'Il concetto di libertà di stampa nello Staatslexikon di Carl von Rotteck and Carl Theodor Welcker' ['The Concept of Press Freedom in Carl von Rotteck and Carl Theodor Welcker's Staatslexikon'], supervisor: Prof. Marco Meriggi; mark: 110 e lode / 110
- BA in History (laurea triennale), University of Naples Federico II, 2005, Naples (Italy)
So far, I held postdoctoral scholarships (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, 2019; Remarque Institute, NYU in New York City, 2018), doctoral stipends (German Historical Institute, Rome, 2011, 2014; Fazit Stiftung, 2016; Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, 2015; Elsa Neumann fellowship of the Federal State of Berlin, 2011-2013) and visiting positions (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin, 2021/2022; University of Bielefeld, Department of History, 2020; Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut at the Hamburg University, 2016).
Moreover, I have been teaching assistant ("cultore della materia") in African history at the University of Pavia, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Prof. Massimo Zaccaria, and in modern history at the University of Padua, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the ancient World (DiSSGeA).
I have published the monographs "Staatsangehörigkeit und Rassismus. Rechtsdiskurse und Verwaltungspraxis in den Kolonien Eritrea und Deutsch-Ostafrika (1882-1919)", (Frankfurt am Main 2021), and "Una cultura delle armi. Identità maschile e società di tiro nell'Impero tedesco (1871-1914)" (Rome 2024), and translated from German into Italian the book by Sebastian Conrad 'Storia globale. Un'introduzione' published by Carocci, Rome in 2015 and reprinted six times by now (original version: 'Globalgeschichte. Eine Einführung', C. G. Beck: Munich 2013).
My work has appeared among other venues in European History Quarterly, the Journal of Modern European History and Northeast African Studies.
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In this event, Uoldelul Chelati Dirar (University of Macerata) discusses with Nicola Camilleri (Italian Academy, Columbia University) his translation into Italian of the novel (Naples, Tamu, 2023).
The event is moderated by Konstantina Zanou (Columbia University)
To register: https://events.columbia.edu/go/Ascaro