Giacomo Bonan

Giacomo Bonan is full professor in modern history at the University of Turin and PI of the ERC StG 2023 project INWOOD. He has worked at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm; the Centre for the History of the Alps at the University of Italian Switzerland; the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna; the Historisches Seminar at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, the Rachel Carson Center at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is member of the editorial board of «Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento», «Global Environment» and «Passato e Presente». He is the author of The State in the Forest (Cambridge, 2019) and Le acque agitate della patria (Rome, 2020). His research interests include forest history; water history; and rural social conflicts associated with modernisation.

Research interests: Environmental History, Contemporary History, Social History, Economic History

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