Giulia Quaggio

Giulia Quaggio is a cultural historian on post-1945 Europe. Drawing on comparative and sociological studies, she analyses the circulation of textual and visual narratives on democracy, peace and dictatorial memory within political institutions and social movements. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Florence, she collaborated with the Complutense University of Madrid (2011), UNED (2011-2015), the Department of History of the University of Sheffield (2017-2019) and the University of Modena (2019). Since 2020, she is a "Ramón y Cajal" researcher at the Department of Modern History (UCM). She has received funding from the Remarque Institute (New York University) and the German Historical Institute of Rome (Max Weber Stiftung). She has been a visiting scholar of the Cañada Blanch (LSE). Her first book La cultura en transición (Alianza 2014) examines to what extent culture and arts symbolically defined the Spanish political process of democratization. The second monograph Una doble experiencia política: España e Italia (Universidad de Granada 2018) delves into the exile cultural exchange between the Spanish Republican Francisco Ayala and the Italian Jew Renato Treves. She is part of the international project Protest as Democratic practice: peace movement in Southern Europe, 1975-1990 on anti-nuclear protests in the last years of the Cold War. The results of her research have been published in: Archiv fur Sozialgeschichte, Historia y Política and soon in Journal of Contemporary History. She is part of the editorial staff of Spagna Contemporanea and peer-reviewer of journals such as Contemporary European History or International Journal of Cultural Policy and the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Ministry of Science and Innovation - Spain).