Marta Gara

Title(s): PhD
Email: marta.gara@unicatt.it

Affiliation:
Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan 

Brief Description:
Marta Gara holds a Ph.D. in Institutions and Politics from Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Milan and she’s currently TA in US History and Government at the same university. She holds an MA in History of the United States (Roma Tre University) and a postgraduate degree in Public History (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). Her Ph.D dissertation is titled ‘Change the System from Within’: Participatory Democracy and Institutional Reforms in the 1970s United States and during the doctoral path she was William P. Heidrich Fellow at the University of Michigan and Visiting Research Scholar at the Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She’s editor of the journal USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics; she authored the e-book Underground Press (Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli: 2018) and she contributed to the historical research for the public exhibition A Great Number. Signs images words of 1968 in Milan (BASE, Milan, October 2018, by Fondazione Isec). She’s been an active member of the AISNA Graduate Forum since 2015 and she served as the Forum’s co-chair in 2019-2021. 

Areas of interest:
Theory and practices of participatory democracy, US History, American Political Development, US Post-1945 social movements, Interdisciplinarity in Social Sciences, Public History