Federica Guazzini

Federica Guazzini

Ph.D. in African history, postdoctoral researcher, and then lecturer of African history at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Siena. Currently, she is associate professor of African history at the Department of International Humanities and Social Sciences, Università per Stranieri di Perugia, where she coordinates the Double degree programme open to master's students in International relations and development aid that leads to the award to the Master programme in African studies after a period of mobility abroad at Dalarna University (Sweden). She is member of the Ph.D. Committee in Linguistics, Philological-Literary, and Social and Political Studies

Institutional roles:

• Delegate of the Rector for International mobility and the Erasmus+ programme
• Delegate of the Rector for International Relations (Africa)
• Representative of the University for the UNIMED network (Union of the Mediterranean Universities)
• Member of the scientific council of Uni-ITALIA
• Representative of the University for the Coordinamento universitario per la cooperazione allo sviluppo (CUCS).

Co-founder of the Inter-University research centre ASAFAL (comparative area studies: Asia, Africa, Latin America).

I'm an historian of Sub-saharan Africa by training, with a focus on the Horn of Africa, particularly Eritrea and Ethiopia. My work focuses on two main areas, political history and social history from colonial imperialism to the present, spanning border studies, conflicts and nationalism from colonial imperialism to the early XXI century. In this context, I have paid attention to issues of primary sources, being constantly committed to expanding the range of unpublished sources, concerned with the epistemological questions and the possibilities and limits of knowledge production.

A more recent line of research concerns on mobility and migration in Sub-Saharan Africa, addressed from the perspective of regional integration programmes, and paying attention to the role of the African Union also in the context of Euro-African relations, through qualitative research and analysis of policies at regional and international levels.