Education
Giulia Bonazza obtained a French-Italian Master degree in «Histoire et civilisations comparées» between the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna and the Paris 7 Denis-Diderot University (2012).
(1/10/2012-5/07/2016) Ph.D. with distinction, Très honorable avec felicitations du jury, Social History, Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici, Geografici e Antropologici, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, (Joint Ph.D. Program in History and Civilization with EHESS-CIRESC, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Centre International recherches sur les esclavages, Paris).
Dissertation: To Be Slaves: The Abolitionist Debate and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States (1750-1850), Supervisors: Myriam Cottias-Rolf Petri
2016-2017 Max Weber post-doctoral fellow (European University Institute), collaboration in the Global History seminar held by Regina Grafe and Lucy Riall
2018 Fellowship German Historical Institute (DHI), in the same year qualification aux fonctions de maître de conférences, French qualification to become Assistant professor (CNU 22).
2019 Maternity Leave (February 1-June 30)
2020 post-doc al CNRS-CIRESC (Centre International de recherche sur les esclavages et les post-esclavages) of Paris, international project “Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery” (DATAS), PI Myriam Cottias.
2020-2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (type Global), Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University (Venice)-History Department, Columbia University (New York) (3 years), project title: "The Darker Shades of Black. The Value of Skin Colour in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Slave and Labour Markets, 1750-1886”.
2023 Italian scientific qualification to become Associate Professor in Early Modern History
Research
Mediterranean and Atlantic slavery, Slavery in Europe, Abolitionism, Labour History, Haitian Revolution, French Revolution
Research Network and Project
Associated member of CNRS-CIRESC (Centre International de recherche sur les esclavages et les post-esclavages), project “Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery” (DATAS) https://documentingafricans.blogspot.com/.
International project Policer les présences noires en Europe dans le long dix-huitième siècle, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Foundation for the Memory of Slavery (Vincent Denis-Ian Coller-Shandiva Banerjee)
International network Atlantic Italies and research project (Roberto Zaugg and Silvia Marzagalli)
- Member of the scientific and editorial board of the Edizioni SISLav, New Digital Frontiers (2020 - present)
- European Labour History Network (ELHN), member of the working group Free and Unfree Labour (2015 - present)
- Associated researcher of CIRESC-CNRS (Paris) (2016 - present)
- Coordinator for the group “Lavoro libero e non libero” of the Italian Society of Labour History (SISLav) (2016 - 2021)
- Member of the management committee of the Italian Society of Labour History (SISLav) (2017 - present)
- Member of the COST Action program “Worlds of Related Coercions in Work” (WORCK) (2019 - present)
- Member of the Italian Society of Early Modern History (2018-present)
- Member of SISSD (2023-present)
Awards and Fellowship
2020-2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (tipo Global), grant agreement 887152, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/887152/it
2020 Finalista del Paul E. Lovejoy Prize con il suo libro Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States, 1750-1850, Cham, Palgrave, 2019, https://brill.com/view/journals/jgs/5/3/article-p279_1.xml?fbclid=IwAR0cDorma8Ql80lOxyR1QMjk3C0VQYmV3hDWVlHyT-E5GKSHrHdwyLMDP4Y
2020 Fellowship dell’Institut d’études avancées di Nantes (Ottobre 2020-Giugno 2021) (9 months) (declined to start the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship)
2018-2019 Teaching Fellowship in Université des Antilles-Martinique (10 months) (declined to start the fellowship at the DHI)
2018 Fellowship, German Historical Institute (DHI), Rome, Italy (4 months)
2016-2017 Max Weber post-doctoral fellowship, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy (1 year)
2015 Fellowship of École française de Rome, Italy (1 month)
2012-2015 Fellowship of Ca’ Foscari University Venice (for 3 years Ph.D.)
2012 Scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for MA Programme in European Studies at the College of Europe, Natolin, Poland (10 months) (declined to start Ph.D.)
