Francesco Zavatti

Francesco Zavatti

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I am a researcher in contemporary history, recently awarded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research with the National Scientific Habilitation as Associate Professor in the field of Contemporary History. I am presently researcher and administrative director of the Institute of Contemporary History, and administrative director of the project ReNEW.

I am specialised in the history of East-Central Europe and of Romania in particular, and interested in transnational history and memory studies across the European spaces, with special interest for the Baltic and Eastern Europe.

Since 2023 I lead the three-years research project "Strategies for Survival of Displaced Fascists: The Romanian Legionaries in the Western Hemisphere, 1945-1965", focused on the post-war activities of Romanian migrated fascists, financed by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) and based at the Institute of Contemporary History, School for Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University.

Upon award of my doctoral degree (Södertörn University, 2016), I have conducted research on the fundraising activities of the Catholic Church in favour of Ireland. The research was co-financed by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), through the project The Moral Economy of Global Civil Society (led by Norbert Götz, Institute of Contemporary History, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University), for which I have been associate researcher (2017), and the Department of Political Sciences of Roma of Tre University, where I continued my research as post-doctoral researcher (2018).

Since 2019 until 2021 I have conducted research on the Romanian far right memory politics as a member of the research project Memory Politics in far Right Europe: Celebrating Nazi-Collaborationists in post-1989 Belarus, Romania, Flanders, and Denmark, led by Andrej Kotljarchuk, together with Madeleine Hurd and Steffen Werther, financed by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) and based at the Institute of Contemporary History, School for Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University and along 2021 I have been project-specific researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) with a research on the same topic.

In 2021-2022 I have led the research project "Competing Visual Representations of the Future in Times of Environmental Consciousness", focused on how still-to-be-realised infrastructures were drawn in the Danish and Swedish printed media (1970-2000), financed by Ridderstads stiftelsen för historisk grafisk forskning and affiliated with the Institute of Contemporary History, School for Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University.

In 2022 I have been researcher at the Department of History, Lund University, as a member of the project "Ukrainian Long-Distance Nationalism in the Cold War", lead by Wallenberg Academy Fellow Per Anders Rudling.

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