Professor Dr. Eugenio Biagini

Biography

Eugenio Biagini is a professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge. He completed his education at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and joined Cambridge in 1985 as a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, later serving as an Assistant Professor of Modern British History at Princeton University. He returned to Cambridge as a College Lecturer and progressed to University Lecturer, Reader, and then to his current position as a professor in 2011. His research centers on the social, economic, and political history of democracy, with a focus on Gladstonian liberalism, the Italian Risorgimento, and Irish nationalism. He has published works examining the impact of Irish Home Rule campaigns on democracy islands and is currently editing a volume on the social history of Ireland from 1740. His recent research interests include the histories of religious and ethnic minorities in twentieth-century Ireland and the challenges of nation-building in deeply divided societies. Biagini also supervises graduate theses on topics related to liberty, nationality, and political legitimacy, and has actively engaged students in research related to significant themes in Irish history.

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