I am a historian of contemporary  Europe. My first book manuscript, “Power is in the Streets”: Protest, Violence, and Policing in France, Italy, and West Germany, 1962-1979 is an interdisciplinary study of protest and public order in France, West Germany, and Italy during the “1968 years.” It focuses on revolutionary politics, social movements, and states during the period of student and worker agitation after 1968. The book tells the untold story of how these phenomena led European governments and experts to reconfigure how they pursued public order and to adapt protest policing to new forms of protest and public scrutiny. My scholarship has appeared in The Journal of Modern History, French Historical Studies, and Contemporary European History and I have received article prizes from CEH and the Council for European Studies.
After earning my PhD at Columbia University in May of 2020, I received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2024) and an FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (2025-2028). My Marie-Curie research, The Emergence of Autonomy: Political Radicalism after the New Left, 1977-1985, explored European radical politics after the crisis of the New Lefts through the case of the Italian Autonomist movement, a primarily urban movement that emerged in Italy in the Seventies and that resonated in a transnational network from its epicenters in Bologna, Milan and Rome to Frankfurt am Main, West Berlin, and Paris. 
I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium where I am appointed in the Modernity and Society (MoSa) research group. My latest project, Defeating ‘Subversion’: Anti-Communism, Police, and Public Order in France and Italy, 1945-1953, explores public order, police militarization, anti-communism and racialization through a comparative and entangled history of Cold War France and Italy. I am also a member of the DEMOPOL international research group hosted by the École française de Rome ( Democratizing Public Space and Policing. Transitions, circulations and contestations in Southern Europe from the return of democracy to the 1980s.)

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