Emilia Morelli: A Historian in Italian Academics During the Second Post World War Period

Silvio Berardi ()
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Silvio Berardi: University “Niccolò Cusano”

Chapter Chapter 2 in Advances in Gender and Cultural Research in Business and Economics, 2019, pp 13-27 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The present research aims to reconstruct the academic career of Emilia Morelli, the first woman to win a public competition in History of the Risorgimento in 1955, declared by the University of Cagliari. Her teaching activity took place until 1964 in Palermo and, from that year until 1988, at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. As a student of Alberto Maria Ghisalberti, Morelli graduated in 1935 at the University of Rome, becoming his assistant since 1942. Forced in an environment extremely wary about female university teaching, Morelli managed to overcome these skepticisms not only through her wide-ranging scientific production, dedicated mainly to Mazzini’s studies, but also through her strong propensity to the leadership that allowed her to hold positions of primary importance in the scientific field: in 1951 she was, for example, general secretary of the Institute for the History of the Risorgimento, while from 1st November 1977 she became director of the Institute of Modern History, taking over from Rosario Romeo. Therefore, Emilia Morelli was among the first to open the gradual and strenuous insertion of female historians not only in the academic world, but also in the governance of the same one.

Keywords: Emilia Morelli; Contemporary History; Risorgimento; Italian Academy; History of the university in Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00335-7_2

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