Alessio Petrizzo

Alessio Petrizzo is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bari and teaches Contemporary History at the University of Padua. He holds a PhD from the University of Florence and has since worked at the Universities of Padua, Lausanne (within the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship Programme) and at the IAS Collegium de Lyon. His research centres on politicisation processes in 19^th-century Europe using an approach that draws on media history, historical anthropology, visual studies and material culture, and the history of the body. His recent works include the exhibition and catalog for Icone politiche. Celebrità e nuovi media al tempo del Risorgimento (Mantua 2018, with Gian Luca Fruci and Costanza Bertolotti) and Visualità e socializzazione politica nel lungo Ottocento italiano, ed. by Alessio Petrizzo, MEFRIM. Mélanges de l’Ecole française de Rome - Italie et Méditerranée, 1 (2018).