Education
BA and MA in International Studies, University of Bologna
MRes and PhD in History and Civilization, European University Institute

Biography

Pot矛 is a modern historian with a background in international studies. His research revolves around the entangled processes of state- and empire-building in the Euro-Mediterranean area, and their interactions with the global political and legal order. Professor Pot矛 is currently completing a book manuscript examining the contestation and re-negotiation of British, French, Italian, and Spanish imperial rule in the Middle East in the early aftermath of World War One. In the meantime, he has presented his ongoing research at some twenty academic workshops and conferences throughout Europe, and his scholarship has appeared in leading academic journals.

Since 2015, Professor Pot矛听has offered a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses to AUR students in the International Relations & Global Politics and Peace Studies programs and supervised a dozen capstone and Master theses. Meanwhile, in 2020, he held a post-doctoral research fellowship in Modern History at the German Historical Institute in Rome.

RESEARCH FIELDS

  • International, Global and Transimperial History
  • Modern Europe
  • Euro-Mediterranean Imperial and Post-Imperial Systems
  • Nations and Nationalism(s)
  • Theory and History of International Law

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

  • 鈥楾he League of Nations and the Post-Ottoman Recolonization of the Nile Valley: The Imperial Matryoshka of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1922鈥1924鈥, Journal of Global History (accepted for publication, forthcoming).
  • Review of Sebastian Conrad, What is Global History? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), and Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmeier (eds.), Global History, Globally (London: Blomsbury, 2018), European Review of History/Revue europ茅enne d鈥檋istoire, 7 January 2021 (DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2020.1859180).
  • 鈥楪li esclusi della pace? Il Wafd egiziano tra internazionalismo e impero, 1919鈥1922鈥, Rivista italiana di storia internazionale, 2:1 (2019), 55鈥78 (DOI: 10.30461/94648).
  • 鈥楿n microcosme de l鈥檈ntre-deux-guerres : La Guerre du Rif (1921鈥1926) et la reconfiguration du complexe imp茅rial euro-m茅diterran茅en鈥, Cahiers de civilisation espagnole contemporaine, 18:1 (2017), published online (URL: ; DOI: 10.4000/ccec.6650).

SELECTED ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

  • 鈥楾he Matryoshka of Empire: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and the League of Nations, 1922鈥1924鈥, 鈥楧ecolonization and International Organizations鈥, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen, 25鈥26 January 2019.
  • 鈥楩lirting with Lenin in Paris: The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 and the French Left鈥, 鈥楾he Peripheries of the European Revolutionary Process(es), 1917鈥 23鈥, European University Institute, Florence, 5鈥7 October 2017.
  • 鈥楶ushing Anti-Colonialism in the Trans-Imperial Space: Egyptian and Libyan Petitions to France (1918鈥1924)鈥, 鈥業n-Between Empires: Trans-Imperial History in a Global Age鈥, Freie Universit盲t Berlin, 15鈥16 September 2017.听
  • 鈥楤omb鈥怲hrowing and Civilizing Missions: The League of Nations and Counter鈥怚nsurgency in the Mandates System (1919鈥1939)鈥, 4th Congress of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), 脡cole Normale Superieure, Paris, 4鈥7 September 2014.
  • 鈥楽upra-National Belongings and Transnational Mobilization in the Era of National Self-Determination: The Case of Middle Eastern Petitions to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919鈥, 24th ASEN conference on 鈥楴ationalism and Belonging鈥, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1鈥3 April 2014.

MEDIA

  • With Simon Jackson, 鈥楲a Syrie et l鈥檃ction internationale鈥, op-ed, Huffington Post (French edition), 15 December 2012, (URL: ).

TEACHING AT AUR

BA program in International Relations and Global Politics

  • POL 120 鈥 Introduction to the 糖心logo入口 Political System.
  • HST 200 鈥 History of Modern Italy.
  • HST 201 鈥 Survey of Western Civilization (I).
  • HST 202 鈥 Survey of Western Civilization (II).
  • HST 203 鈥 Survey of 糖心logo入口 History.
  • ECPO 204 鈥 Introduction to the European Union.
  • HST 305 鈥 History of Modern Europe.
  • POL 305 鈥 Political Movements in Europe.
  • POL 314 鈥 Conflict and Peace in the in the Mediterranean.
  • POL 320 鈥 The Three C鈥檚 of War: Causes, Cures and Consequences.

MA program in Peace Studies

  • PST 511 鈥 Peace, Politics and Religion.
  • PST 514 鈥 Democracy and Government: Contemporary Challenges.