RUOZZI FEDERICO

Prof. Federico Ruozzi

I. Current position
Associate professor of History of Christianity at the Department of Education and Human Sciences, UNIMORE (2021- ), where he teaches Visual History, History of the Relation between Church and State, History of the Interreligious Relations
Research Fellow at the National Infrastructures on Religious Studies FSCIRE, Bologna (2014- ) leader since 2021 of RESILIENCE the European Infrastructures on Religious Studies (ESFRI Roadmap 2021)
2020-. President of the Associazione per lo sviluppo delle scienze religiose in Italia
2020- . Elected member of the executive committee of the AICI - Associazione delle istituzioni di Cultura italiane
Member of the G20 Interfaith Forum Association Italy
Collaborator of the newspaper «Il Domani», «Il Mulino», «Minima&Moralia»

II. Education and Academic titles
1. National Scientific Qualification as full professor of History of Christianity (M-STO/07 – 11/A4, 2021-2030)
2. RTD B in History of Christianity, 2018-2021, UNIMORE
3. 2018. CEO of the innovative start-up mim for the development of algorithms for the automatic recognition of non-Latin alphabets in collaboration with the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo
4. RTD A in History of Christianity, 2014-2017, UNIMORE
5. PhD with full marks in Modern and Contemporary History, PhD School in Human Sciences, UNIMORE (2007-2009)

III. Personal Research Project
His fields of research are modern and contemporary history and the history of the Church, in particular the relationship between religion and the media, "making him one of the first scholars in the history of Christianity to have used audiovisual sources for the study of the contemporary church and papacy, with innovative and high-impact results" (ASN), the Second Vatican Council, the history of the Popes, Italian Catholicism and religious illiteracy, Lorenzo Milani and the Florentine church, power relations between politics and religion, and American Catholicism. Recently, he has begun to work on the Church and the Mafia and on innovative systems for cataloguing non-Latin alphabets.

IV. Scholarships, grants and awards
2010-2014, 2017-2018. Post-doc researcher at Fondazione per le scienze religiose
2015. He won a grant at the CUSHWA Center for the Study of the American Catholicism of the Notre Dame University (US)
2010. He won the annual grant in the competitive call of CRT – Master dei talenti della società civile
2013. He won the “Menzione speciale opera prima”, Sissco for the book Il concilio in diretta (il Mulino 2012, 560 pp.)

V. Visiting stays at foreign Institutions
2022 (autumn). Visiting Fellow at the Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn (Netherlands)
2015 (June-July). Visiting Fellow at the CUSHWA CENTER of the Notre Dame University (US), where he gave seminars

VI. Invited Participation in Conferences, Seminars and workshop
From 2007 to 2020 he participated, as invited speaker or as selected papers, in 67 International or national Congresses (Oxford, London, Toronto, New York, Paris, Bangalore – India, Tokyo in occasion of the G20 Interfaith). From 2007 to 2020 he organized 21 international or national congress, seminars, panels.
He participated to the group that created the European Academy of Religions (2016) and he coordinate for FSCIRE the organization of the annual conference with over 1.200 participants coming from all over the word.
He was in the scientific and technical committee that organized the G20 Interfaith 2021 in Italy. The event hosted 370 religious leaders, politicians, and scholars from 70 countries.

VII. Main Coordination and direction of National and International research/edu projects
1. 2012-2017. Direction of the research team for the critical edition of the texts of L. Milani (Meridiani Mondadori)
2. 2013-2015. Scientific direction of the research team for the Atlas of the Vatican II (Fscire)
3. 2013-2015. Scientific direction of the Fscire research team for the Digital Humanities and Religious Studies (PON DICET – INMOTO)
4. 2014: member of the scientific committee of the national research “L’immaginario devoto tra organizzazioni mafiose e lotta alla mafia”, University of Rome
5. 2015-2018. Scientific direction of the research team for the development of a SW and cross-medial contents for Instant Museum/Visual History (Cluster Nazionale Tecnologie per le Smart Communities)
6. 2016- . Scientific Direction of the international research team for the project “Religious illiteracy. The Portal” (MIUR)
7. 2017. Director of the Winter School in Visual History and Memory (Unimore)
8. 2017-2019. Scientific direction of the research team for the development of “PARS – The Portal on Religious Pluralism” (FAR 2016)
9. 2017- . Scientific consultant of the European ReIReS project – Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies (H2020-INFRAIA-2016-2017)
10. 2017-2018. Scientific direction for FSCIRE of the task “History of Religious Studies in the Age of Big-Data: Developing New Methodology” (WP7) – EU ReIReS project (H2020)
11. 2019-. Scientific Direction and coordination of the international research team for “DigitalMaktaba 4 Resilience. Access to Multi-Alphabetical Specialized Libraries” (Unimore – Fscire – Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies al Tarabeeshi, Cairo)
12. 2019-. Member of the scientific committee of the International Master Plures - Religious Pluralism (Fscire)
13. 2021. Direction and coordination of ReIReS International School on “The use and study of special documents”, Bologna (H2020-INFRAIA 2017)

VIII. Main Scientific Responsibility of won Project based on Competitive call
1. 2015-2016. Project Manager (PM) of the international project “Benedetto XV” (Presidenza del Consiglio)
2. 2015-2017. PM of the call “Edizione Nazionale degli scritti di don Milani” (Mibact)
3. 2016-2020, 2021-2024 PM of the Programme agreement Fscire-MUR (5M)
4. 2017-2018. PM of the project “EuARe 2019, analfabetismo religioso e inclusione scolastica” (CARISBO)
5. 2017-2018. CoPM of RESILIENCE. Religious Studies Infrastructures: Libraries&Experts Networking Centers in Europe” (ESFRI ROADMAP 2018)
6. 2017-2021. Member of the scientific board of the project ReIReS – Research Infrastructures on Religious Studies (H2020-INFRAIA-2017)
7. 2018- . Scientific coordinator of the project “A proposito di Eva. Gender and Religion” (call REC-RGEN-PENS-AG-2017-Dip. Pari Opportunità)
8. 2019- . PM of the project “Religious Pluralims, Historical knowledge: exchange, education, resources, teaching expertise” (Progetti triennali di Alta Formazione, Regione Emilia Romagna)
9. 2019- . PM of the project “Teologia, pensiero economico e prassi commerciali: usura e tasso d’interesse fra cristianesimo e islam” (Banca d’Italia)

IX. Participation in scientific boards
1. 2008- . Secretary of the international peer-reviewed Journal Cristianesimo nella storia (Fascia A 11/A4)
2. 2011. Member of 3 editorial staffs of Treccani Grand Opera
3. 2013- . Editorial Manager of the series “Testi e ricerche di Scienze Religiose” (il Mulino)
4. 2013-2018. Editorial Manager of the German series “History and Christianity” (Lit Verlag, Berlin)
5. 2013-2015. Coordinator of the Editorial and Scientific board of the Atlas of the Second Vatican Council (Milano 2015) and translated in 4 languages
6. 2013- . Member of the editorial staff of the e-journal “E-Review. Rivista degli Istituti Storici dell’Emilia Romagna in Rete”
7. 2015-2017. Member of the National board of the “Edizione Nazionale per gli scritti di don Lorenzo Milani” (Mibact)
8. 2015-. Member of the European Academy of Religion
9. 2017-. Coordinator of the Editorial board of the international series “Fscire Research and Papers” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)
10. 2018-. Member of the National board of the “Edizione Nazionale delle opera di Cesare Zavattini” (Mibact)
11. 2018-. Secretary of the international peer-reviewed Journal Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale
12. 2018-2021. Member of the Scientific board of Istoreco
13. 2020-. Member of the editorial board of the international series “Bologna Studies in Religious History” (Brill)

X. Participation in PHD courses
1. 2014- . Member of the board of The Alberigo European School for Advanced Religious Studies, equivalent to a PhD (D.M. MURST, 19.10.1998)
2. 18.03.2019-05.2022. Member of the scientific committee and the board of professors of the PHD course in Reggio Childhood Studies, Unimore

XI. Quality and Impact of publications
1. From 2008 up to the present day Ruozzi has published 2 monographs, 3 Critical Editions published in the series Meridiani Mondadori, and 49 book chapters/essays, and journal articles, 4 dictionary entries, 16 Atlas entries; he has edited 4 volumes for Il Mulino, Treccani, Jaca Book and Meridiani Mondadori
2. He edited volumes translated into English, Spanish, German, Polish
3. His research books were presented and discussed in seminars, workshops, and reviewed by the most important international Journals
4. The Critical Edition of the “Don Lorenzo Milani. Opere” (2017, 2 t.) was presented at the Bookcity Festival, Salone del libro of Turin, Fiera del libro of Milan (with the opening speech by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and the President of Rai-Tv) and in 127 cities in Italy and abroad. It was reviewed by the most important newspapers, scientific journals and, for the first time, by the Pope Francis
5. Most of his essays in collective volumes have been published by important international and Italian publishers as il Mulino, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana - Treccani, Utet, Viella, Storia e Letteratura, Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Brepols, Routledge
6. He participated in several international publishing projects, as the Moralizing Cinema, the Oxford Handbook of the Vatican II, the grand opera on Benedict XV, the grand opera on Costantine, aimed at a wide international reading audience.
7. In the last 9 years he published 9 articles in journals rated as “Class A” by ANVUR in his scientific area (11/A4)