PhD Students
Giovanni Battista Corvino is Ph.D. Fellow in Global History of Empires at University of Turin. In the same University, he holds a M.A. in Criminological and Forensic Psychology (Department of Psychology and Department of Law) and a M.A. in Social Work and Social Policies (Department of Culture, Politics and Society), both cum laude. He also studied at Maltepe University, Harvard University, Trento University, Salamanca University, Sarajevo University, East-Sarajevo University, Milan-Bicocca University and in various Professional Schools. Moreover, before starting his doctorate, he was an archivist at Polytechnic University of Turin. Through the study of lynching of African Americans in the United States, the aim of his research project is to clarify the concept of citizenship and its relationship with race between the end of the 19th century and the second half of the 20th. He already addressed the study of lynching against African Americans in his second master thesis, which has analyzed the origin of this process, its forms and evolution, and the dehumanization that supported its violent racial aversion.
Igor Kuziner holds a specialist degree in telecommunicational systems at State University of Telecommunications (St. Petersburg). He holds M.A. in History of Religions at Russian State Pedagogical University (St. Petersburg). At the moment, is a Ph.D. student of the programme in Global History of Empires at Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg) and at the University of Turin. The broader definition of his field is a state-church relationship in the 20th century. Now, is working on a thesis concerning strategies of adaptation of popular and alternative orthodox movements to the conditions of Soviet internal policy. In the narrower sense, the project deals with how radical religious communities undergo a transformation of Imperial regimes and seek their
Erofei Moriakov holds bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. I also hold a master’s degree in history from Collège Universitaire Français de Moscou (Master 1). I worked as an assistant in The Laboratory of Socio-historical Research in the HSE in 2014. Since 2015, I worked as an archivist in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents (RGADA). During my years as a student, I studied practices of judicial settlement of conflicts between nobles and serfs, denunciations of seditious speech as a form of resistance, representations of justice in the eighteenth-century Russia. During my PhD I will continue working on practices of resolving conflicts between landlords and serfs in the second half of the 18th century in the Russian empire.
Leonardo Vaccari I have achieved my high school diploma at Liceo Classico Carlo Botta in Ivrea. For my bachelor’s degree I studied history at the Università degli Studi di Torino, discussing a thesis on the first season of the American Red Scare. Following my interests in globalization and cultural entanglements, I moved to Berlin for a master’s degree in Global History. My master thesis proposed a comparison between two cases of agrarian colonization in Somalia during the first half of 20th century; more precisely, I focused on elements of continuity and discontinuity between liberal and fascist regimes in the exploitation of local workers. In order to continue my studies on Italian colonialism, during my PhD I will work on a cultural history of the Italian community in Tunis from the end of 19th century to the first half of 20th century.