Serena Mocci

Name: Serena Mocci
Title(s): Ph.D.
Email:serena.mocci@unica.it
Affiliation: University of Cagliari / University of Bologna
Personal Website: University Webpage

Bio:
Serena Mocci holds a Ph.D. in Political and Intellectual History of the United States (University of Bologna) and she is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cagliari. Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, USA) and at the Centre for Gender History of Glasgow University (Scotland, UK). In 2019 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of History of Columbia University (New York City, USA). She authored several essays on the political and intellectual history of the United States, published in academic journals in Italy and abroad, and the book Donne e impero nell’Ottocento americano. La cultura politica di Lydia Maria Child e Margaret Fuller [Women and Empire in Nineteenth-Century America. The Political Culture of Lydia Maria Child and Margaret Fuller] (Viella, 2023). Her research interests focus on the investigation of women’s political culture in the nineteenth century, with particular reference to the relationship between women and imperial processes.
Between 2021 and 2023 she served as co-chair and event planner coordinator of the Graduate Forum of the Italian Association for American Studies (AISNA).

Areas of interest

U.S. history; women’s history; U.S. political culture