GUASTI NICCOLO'

Niccolo Guasti’s Curriculum Vitae


I. Personal details
Full name: Niccolò Guasti.
Date and Place of birth: Florence, Italy, September 26, 1969.
Current Academic Affiliation: Department of Education and Humanities (Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umane), University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy. Email: niccolo.guasti@unimore.it.
Personal web page: http://personale.unimore.it/Rubrica/dettaglio/niccologuasti.
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3586-0505.
Scopus Author ID: 15069548300.
Language proficiency: Spanish and English (native Italian speaker).

II. Academic career
Current Academic Position: Associate Professor (Professore Associato) in Early Modern History at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy.
1. PhD (Diploma di perfezionamento) with full marks in Early Modern History at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy (dissertation presented on 31 May 2005).
2. Post-doctoral fellow in Early Modern History at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (August 2006-August 2008).
3. Assistant Professor (“Ricercatore t. i.”) in Early Modern History at the Department of Humanities, Letters, Cultural Heritage and Educational Studies, University of Foggia, Italy (from 22 December 2008 to 31 March 2021).
4. Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the Department of Humanities, Letters, Cultural Heritage and Educational Studies, University of Foggia, Italy (from 1 April 2021 to 30 June 2021).
5. Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy (from 1 July 2021 onwards).
6. National Scientific Qualification as full professor in Early Modern History (achieved on 28 November 2017).

III. Scholarships, grants and awards
1. Scholarship granted on April 1998 by the Datini Institute of Prato (Italy) to attend the XX Corso di Specializzazione di Storia economica ‘F. Melis’: poteri economici e poteri politici, secc. XIII-XVIII and the XXX settimana di studi organized by the same Institute (20 April–1 May 1998).
2. History of Economic Analysis Award (ex aequo) for the best european scientific article 2003 promoted by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. Article awarded: Más que catastro, catástrofe. Il dibattito sull’imposizione diretta nel Settecento spagnolo, in “Storia del Pensiero economico”, 40, 2000, pp. 77-128.
3. Annual Scholarship granted by the Centro di Studi sull’Illuminismo Europeo “G. Stiffoni” of Venice (year 2005).
4. Visiting Fellowship at the Department of History and Civilisation, EUI (December 2008–June 2009).
5. Short-Term Fellowship (1 month) granted by the Newberry Library of Chicago (call year 2018-2019), in order to carry out the research project The Jesuit Missions in New France between Reality and Representation (stay not made due to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency).
6. Premio Capitanata per la ricerca storica (Tenth Edition) sponsored by the Centro di Ricerca e di Documentazione per la Storia della Capitanata for the best historical monograph published between 2020 and 2022. Book awarded: Collegi e masserie. I gesuiti nel Regno di Napoli (secoli XVI-XVIII). Alcuni casi di studio tra Capitanata e Terra di Bari, Milan, Jouvence, 2022 (24 November 2023).

IV. Visiting stays at International Institutions
1. Visiting stay at the Department of History and Civilisation, EUI (December 2008 – June 2009. Tutor: A. Romano).
2. Erasmus staff mobility for training stay at the University of Alicante, Spain (21-28 September 2015).
3. Erasmus staff mobility for teaching stay at the University of Alicante, Spain (13-23 December 2017).
4. Erasmus staff mobility for training stay at the University of Stettin, Poland, (11-16 June 2018).
5. Erasmus staff mobility for teaching stay at the University of Alicante, Spain (28-39 November 2018).

V. Invited Participation in Conferences, Seminars and workshop
From December 1997 to December 2023 I participated, as invited speaker, in 65 (47 international and 18 national) conferences, seminars and workshops in Italy, Spain, USA, Mexico, UK and Poland. I attended as invited discussant 14 international conferences, seminars and workshops and 11 National Confereces or Workshops. I also coordinated and organized 4 international seminars/conferences, 2 international panels and 7 seminars/conferences at the Universities of Foggia, Florence, Rome, Bologna, Modena e Reggio, Bilbao, Edinburgh. I was a member of the scientific committes of 6 international conferences, among others the Second international conference sponsored by the Italian and Spanish Societies for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of Salamanca (16-18 March 2022) and the 16th International Congress for Eighteenth-century Studies held at the Universities of Rome La Sapienza and Tor Vergata (3-7 July 2023). I am actually organizing the Third international conference sponsored by the Italian and Spanish Societies for Eighteenth Century Studies (to be held in Catania on 26-28 June 2024).

VI. Participation in National and International research projects
1. National research project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN 2000) La cultura dell’Illuminismo europeo. PI. prof. V. Ferrone (years 2000-2002). Role: outside participant (“partecipante esterno”).
2. National research project (PRIN 2004) Viaggi testuali e viaggiatori: la Spagna e l’Europa. PI. prof. M. G. Profeti (years 2004-2006). Role: outside participant.
3. National research project (PRIN 2005) L’Illuminismo e i diritti dell’Uomo nella crisi dell’Antico Regime. PI. prof. V. Ferrone (years 2005-2007). Role: outside participant.
4. National research project (PRIN 2007) Il tardo Illuminismo e la crisi dell’Antico Regime in Europa. PI. prof. V. Ferrone (years 2007-2009). Role: outside participant.
5. Miur-Interlink 2006-2008 research project EUO-European culture and the understanding the Otherness: historiography, politics and the sciences of man in the birth of the modern world (16th-19th centuries). PI. prof. G. Abbattista (years 2006-2009). Role: member of the research team.
6. Biennial project Azione Italia-Spagna (2008-2009), funded by the Italian and Spanish Ministries for University and Research. PI. prof. G. Abbattista (years 2008-2010). Role: young reasercher in training.
7. Research project Política económica, circulación internacional de ideas económicas y esfera pública en España (1680-1840) funded by the Spanish Ministry for University and Research (“VI Plan nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación tecnológica, 2008-2011”, year 2011). PI. prof. G. Pérez Sarrión (beginning: 19/07/2011 – end: 18/07/2014). Role: member of the research team.
8. Project “Campus de Excelencia Internacional UAM-CSIC” La crisis del sistema cortesano: de la corte a la nación (1680-1812), funded by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. PI. prof. M. Rivero Rodríguez (ref. CEMU 2013-06. Beginning: 1/3/2013 – end: 1/3/2015). Role: member of the research team.
9. Research project Interculturalism between intersubjectivity and representation of the Other funded by the University of Foggia (year 2014). PI. prof. G. D’Anna (beginning: 2/4/2015 – end: 2/4/2017). Role: member of the research team.
10. Research project De Reinos a Naciones. La transformación del sistema cortesano (siglos XVIII-XIX) (num. HAR2015-68946-C3-P) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. PI. prof. J. Martínez Millán (beginning 01/01/2016 – end: 31/12/2019). Role: member of the research team.
11. Research project La redefinición del Espacio europeo y mediterráneo en el siglo XVIII. Política, diplomacia y conflictos (num. HAR2015-65987-P) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. PI. prof. V. León Sanz (beginning: 01/01/2016 – end: 31/12/2018). Role: member of the research team.
12. Research project Bién Común e intereses privados.Política económica, esfera pública y pensamiento económico en España en el “largo Siglo XVIII” (num. HAR2016-77344-R) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. PI. J. Astigarraga (beginning: 30/12/2016 – end: 29/12/2019). Role: member of the research team.
13. Research project Forme e pratiche della religiosità in Daunia nel confronto con il territorio nazionale fra Cristianesimo e Islam (secc. XVII-XXI): persistenza e trasformazioni funded by the University of Foggia (year 2018). PI. prof. R. Parisi (beginning: 12/4/2019 – end: 11/4/2020). Role: member of the research team.
14. European COST Project Action People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923) [PIMo], PI. prof. G. Tarantino, Working Group 1: Things in Motion. (beginning: september 2019 – end: september 2022). Role: member of the research team.
15. Research project Circulación Internacional de las ideas y modernización de la cultura económica en España (1700-1850) (num. PID2020-115261RB-100) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. PI.s prof. J. Astigarraga and J. Zabalza (beginning: 01-09-2021 – end: 31-08-2024). Role: member of the research team.
16. Research project ARTistiC – Art at Court: Archival Collections and Artistic documentation in the Este Archives funded by the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (2022). PI prof. E. Fumagalli (beginning: November 2022 – end: November 2024). Role: member of the research team.
17. US Research project Rethinking Eighteenth-Century Italian Culture and its Transnational Connections (“National Endowment for the Humanities proposal”). PI prof. C. Donato (beginning 1/2/2023 – end: 31/1/2024). Role: member of the research team.
18. National research project (PRIN 2022) Images of China from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. P. I. prof. F. Borghesi (beginning November 2023 – end: November 2025). Role: member of the research team.
19. National research project (PRIN 2020), The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed and its translations. First exploration and methodological test of a Transdisciplinary research on the Councils’Symbol in History, Culture and Society (4th-20th century). PI. prof. A. Melloni. Role: Responsible for Foggia University’s research unit B; replacement carried out on 26 November 2021 after switching from the University of Foggia to the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia.

VII. Personal research projects
1. Grant-in-aid received on November 2000 by the Italian Ministry for Universities and Research for participating in national project “Young Researchers” (“Giovani Ricercatori”).
2. 5.000 euros grant provided by the Banca del Monte “Domenico Siniscalco Ceci” Foundation of Foggia to research jesuit properties in Apulia (years 2011-2012).
3. 2600 euros contribution granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture (call Subvenciones para el fomento de la cultura y del libro español mediante la traducción y edición en lenguas extranjeras de obras literarias o científicas escritas y publicadas en español. Ayudas y subvenciones del Ministerio de Cultura, año 2010) for translating L. Normante y Carcavilla’s Discurso sobre la utilidad de los conocimientos económico-políticos and Proposiciones de economía civil y comercio (1784-1785).
4. 3700 euros grant received by the University of Foggia in the framework of the “2016 publications call” in order to edit a research monograph (Juan Andrés e la cultura del Settecento, Milan, Mimesis, 2017).
5. 3.000 euros contribution granted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research within the “Fondo per il Finanziamento delle Attività Base di Ricerca” (FFABR) – year 2017.

VIII. Partecipation in scientific and editorial boards
1. Member of the scientific board of the Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SISSD), from 9 June 2021 onwards.
2. Member of the scientific board of the Centro di Studi sul Seicento e Settecento spagnolo (CSSS), University of Bologna, from 24 December 2021 onwards.
3. Member of the scientific board of the Centro di Studi “Utopia”, University of Padova, from 24 May 2022 onwards.
4. Member of the scientific board of the Digital Indipetae Database managed by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, from 24 February 2020 onwards.
5. Member of the Laboratorio di Storia at the Department of Humanities, Letters, Cultural Heritage and Educational Studies, University of Foggia, from 11 April 2019 to 30 June 2021.
6. Member of the Laboratorio sul pensiero critico at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, from 10 January 2024 onwards.
7. Member of the scientific board of the Spanish journal (Scopus indexed) “El Futuro del Pasado”, from 15 May 2015 onwards.
8. Member of the editorial board of the Italian journal (Scopus indexed) “Società e Storia”, from 31 January 2016 onwards.
9. Member of the scientific board of Mezzogiorno Adriatico, series of Historical Studies on Late Middle Ages and Early Modern History (C. Grenzi Editore, Foggia), from 10 January 2010 onwards.
10. Member of the scientific board of Insulae Diomadeae, series of Historical and Archaeological Studies (Edipuglia, Bari), from 1 June 2015 onwards.
11. Member of the scientific board of Mediterranea, series of Historical Studies (Edipuglia, Bari), from 30 April 2014 onwards.

IX. Partecipation in PhD courses as a member of the faculty board
1. Member of PhD course in History and Global Archaeology of Landscape at the University of Foggia (Storia e Archeologia Globale dei Paesaggi, DOT03C9751, XXV-XXVIII cc.) between the academic years 2009/2010 – 2012/2013.
2. Member of the PhD course in History of Europe at the University of Teramo (Storia dell’Europa dal Medioevo all’Età contemporanea, DOT13A8031, XXX c.) in the academic year 2014/2015.
3. Member of the PhD course in Philological-Literary, Historical-Philosophical and Artistic Sciences at the University of Parma (Scienze Filologico-Letterarie, Storico-Filosofiche e Artistiche, DOT1321127, XXXVI-XXXVIII cc.) between the academic years 2020/2021 – 2022/2023.
4. From 19 April 2023 I am member of the Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies (DREST) at the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (dottorato di interesse nazionale in Studi religiosi, DOT22L4MZ7, XXXIX c.).
5. From 23 April 2023 I am member of the PhD Course for specialization in religious science at the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII” (FSCIRE) of Bologna (Corso di Perfezionamento Scientifico in Scienze Religiose, DOT22H4228, XXXIX c.).
From the year 2010 I have partecipated in eight PhD examination committees at the Universities of Foggia, Bari, Florence, Pise, Pise/Normale, Alicante, Valencia and I have been external referee of four PhD theses on behalf of the Universities of Florence, Padova, Alicante and Castilla-La Mancha.

X. Teaching experiences, postgraduate courses and (selected) single lectures
1. Between the academic years 2009/10 – 2020/21 I taught a regular course (Bachelor Degree, 54 hh. each academic year) in Early Modern History (Storia moderna) at the Department of Humanities, Letters, Cultural Heritage and Educational Studies, University of Foggia.
2. From the academic year 2021/22 I teach a regular course (Master Degree, 56 hh. each academic year) in Early Modern History (Storia moderna) at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia.
3. Between the academic years 2017/18 – 2020/21 I taught a regular course (Master Degree, 36 hh. each ac. year) in Early Modern History of Southern Italy (Storia del Mezzogiorno in Età moderna) at the Department of Humanities, Letters, Cultural Heritage and Educational Studies, University of Foggia.
4. In the first semester of the current academic year 2023/24 I taught a course (Master Degree, 42 hh.) in History of the Idea of Europe (Storia dell’idea d’Europa) at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia.
5. In the second semester of the current academic year 2023/24 I will teach a course (Master Degree, 30 hh) of History and historiography of the Enlightenment (Storia e storiografia dell’Illuminsimo) at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia.
6. Cycle of lectures on modern historiography given to PhD students of the Department of Humanities, Letters, Cultural Heritage and Educational Studies, University of Foggia (18 and 25 March 2021, 3 hh. 45 min.s).
7. Cycle of lectures on the Annales School (Dalla Scuola delle “Annales” alla “World History”: un secolo di riflessione storiografica) given to PhD students of the course in Philological-Literary, Historical-Philosophical and Artistic Sciences, University of Parma (24, 25, 31 March and 1 April 2022, 12 hh.).
8. Cycle of lectures on the Society of Jesus (La Compagnia di Gesù in età moderna, 1540-1814: il dibattito storiografico e le attuali prospettive di ricerca) given to PhD students of the Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies at Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (3-4 April 2023, 8 hh.).
9. Lecture I gesuiti e i Lumi nell’Europa del Settecento given at the Laboratorio di Storia Moderna organized by the Department of History, University of Florence (27 November 2003).
10. Lecture Il dibattito storiografico sul mercantilismo iberico given at the Laboratorio di Storia Moderna organized by the Department of History, University of Florence (5 March 2004).
11. Lecture Dall’imposizione indiretta al catasto: le riforme fiscali nella Spagna del Settecento given at the XXIX Corso di specializzazione ‘F. Melis’ organized by the Istituto Internazionale di storia economica “F. Datini” of Prato (21 April 2007).
12. Lecture L’esilio italiano dei gesuiti spagnoli espulsi given to PhD students at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (21 November 2008).
13. Lecture La Compagnia di Gesù e l’Illuminismo: le strategie culturali dei gesuiti spagnoli espulsi given to PhD students at the Department of History, University of Padova (24 march 2010).
14. Lecture La storiografia italiana e la Spagna del Settecento given to PhD students at the Department of History and Social Sciences, University of Bari (9 June 2010).
15. Lecture El papel de los jesuitas españoles expulsos en el restablecimiento de la Compañía: debates y conflictos given at the “Centro de Estudios Iberoamericanos Mario Benedetti”, University of Alicante (25 September 2015).
16. Lecture A proposito del genere biografico. Juan Andrés y Morell. Un gesuita spagnolo nell’Italia dei Lumi given to PhD students at the University of Bologna in the framework of the course Fonti e metodologia (18 November 2015).
17. Lecture I gesuiti nell’età della soppressione given to PhD students at the Department of History, University of Florence (8 October 2017).
18. Lecture Storia, narrazione e autobiografia: alcune considerazioni di metodo given to students of bechelor’s degree at the Department of Italian Studies, University of Settin, Poland (14 June 2018).
19. Online lecture Una rivoluzione storiografica del ‘900: la scuola delle Annales given to PhD students of the University of Florence (SAGAS Department, 15 February 2021).
20. Online lecture Dall’Economia-Mondo alla World History given to PhD students of the University of Bologna (17 February 2022).
21. Online lecture (with prof. M. T. Guerrini,) I gesuiti spagnoli espulsi nelle Legazioni pontificie (1768-1815): strategie culturali e vita quotidiana given within the cycle of workshops organized by the Centro Studi sul Seicento e Settecento spagnolo, University of Bologna (22 February 2022).
22. Lecture Collegi e masserie. I gesuiti nel Regno di Napoli (secoli XVI-XVIII) given to PhD students at the Department of Humanities, Letters, Cultural Heritage and Education, University of Foggia (6 June 2023).
Reggio Emilia, January 18, 2024