Nicola BASSONI

Position
Research Grant Holder
E-mail
nicola.bassoni@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/nicola.bassoni (personal record)
 https://www.unive.it/ytopia
Office
Department of Asian and North African Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dsaam

Current Research Project

May, 2022-Apr. 2025: “YTOPIA – Yamatology of the Axis. Japan as a Nazi-Fascist Utopia of Political Renewal” (MSCA-IF-GF-2020), website https://pric.unive.it/projects/ytopia/home

 

Vita

Sept.-Dec., 2021: Professor on contract (environmental history) at the University of Genoa

Jan.-May, 2021: Research Fellow at the University of Genoa

Sept., 2016-Dec., 2020: Teaching assistant for the course of Contemporary History at the University of Genoa

Jun. 2016: PhD in History at the University of Genoa – Dissertation awarded with the ‘Ettore Gallo’ Prize 2017 of the Vicenza Historical Institute of the Resistance

Sept.-Nov., 2015: DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) short research grant

Jan. 2012: MA in Contemporary History at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome

Jan.-Sept., 2009: Erasmus Student Exchange Program at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Mar. 2007: BA in History at the University of Pisa

 

Research Interests

Intellectual history of the 20th century; History of German-Italian cultural relations; History of European Japanology; History of geopolitical thought; Environmental history

 

Memberships

Member of the German Studies Association (GSA), the Italian Society for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA), and the Italian Society for Contemporary History (SISSCO)

 

Languages

Italian (native speaker), English (fluent), German (fluent), French (advanced), Japanese (basic)