Federica Morelli
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I’m the Principal Investigator of FIS advanced grant The Italian Peninsula and the Atlantic Slavery. A Forgotten History (BlackItaly). My work centers on colonial Latin American history, the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions, slavery and the construction of citizenship and racial categories in 18th- and 19th- century Spanish America. I’ve been the coordinator of the international PhD program in Global History of Empires and m a member of the steering committee of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH). I’ve held visiting fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence (RI), at the Institut de Hautes Etudes sur l’Amérique Latine in Paris, and at the European University Institute in Florence. My main publications include: Territorio o Nación. Reforma y disolución del espacio imperial en Ecuador, 1765-1830 (Madrid, 2005), Il Mondo Atlantico. Una storia senza confini (Roma, 2013), L’indipendenza dell’America spagnola. Dalla crisi della monarchia alle nuove repubbliche (Firenze, 2015), De los Andes al Atlántico. Territorio, constitución y ciudadanía en la crisis del imperio español (Quito, 2018), Claiming Citizenship. Free People of Color in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolution (New York, 2024).
Progetti collegati
Pubblicazioni
Books
· Claiming Citizenship. Free People of Color in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutions, New York, Nova Science, 2024
· De los Andes al Atlántico. Territorio, constitución, ciudadanía en la crisis del imperio español, Quito, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar – Corporación Editora Nacional, 2018
· L’indipendenza dell’America spagnola. Dalla crisi della monarchia alle nuove repubbliche, Florence, Le Monnier, 2015
· Il mondo atlantico. Una storia senza confini, XV-XIX secolo, Rome, Carocci, 2013.
· Territorio o Nazione. Riforma e dissoluzione dello spazio imperiale in Ecuador, 1765-1830, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2001 (French traslation: Territoire ou Nation? Equateur, 1765-1830, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2004; Spanish Traslation: Territorio o Nación. Reforma y disolución del espacio imperial en Ecuador, 1765-1830, Madrid, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2005)
Co-editions
· Geografia, razza e territorio. Agostino Codazzi e la Commissione Corografica in Colombia with S. Venturoli, Bologna, Il Mulino 2021.
· L’Atlantique révolutionnaire. Une perspective ibéro-américaine, with C. Thibaud, A. Gómez and G. Entin, Paris, Les Perséides, 2013
· Entre Nápoles y América. Ilustración y cultura jurídica en el mudo hispánico (Siglos XVIII y XIX) with G. Verdo and E. Richard, Bogotà, Carreta-Institut Français d’Etudes Andins, 2012
· Les empires atlantiques des Lumières au libéralisme (1763-1865), with C. Thibaud and G. Verdo, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009
Journal Articles (selection)
“Spanish Atlantic World.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, www.oxfordbibliographies.com
“Geography, Race, and Nation, in Agostino Codazzi’s Transatlantic Experiences (1793–1859)”, History, 108: (2023), 64-86.
“Slavery, Mobility, and Freedom in the Spanish Atlantic During the Age of Revolutions”, Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, LVI/1 (2022), pp. 71-100.
« Repenser la citoyenneté. Race et genre dans les révolutions hispano-américaines », Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire, n. 53 (2021)
“Citizenship”, Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, www.oxfordbibliographies.com
“‘Una gran asociación de pueblos’. La rebelión en Guayaquil y su percepción de la Gran Colombia (1827)”, Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, 45.2 (2018): 149-174.
“Race, wars, and citizenship. Free people of Color in the Spanish American independence”, Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 79, n.1, 2018, pp. 143-156
“Constitución y federación sin estado. El modelo constitucional gaditano en el Risorgimento italiano”, Revista de Estudios Políticos, 175, enero/marzo (2017), pp. 243-267.
“Democrazie razziali? Riforme, guerre e cittadinanza dalla crisi dell’impero alle indipendenze ispano-americane”, Contemporanea, a. XIX, n. 2, aprile-giugno 2016, pp.
“Guerras, libertad y ciudadanía. Los afrodescendientes de Esmeraldas en la independencia”, Revista de Indias, vol. LXXVI, n. 266, pp. 83-108.
«Terra e libertà. I liberi di colore in una regione di frontiera (Popayán-Esmeraldas, sec. XVIII-XIX)», Quaderni Storici, vol. I, 2015, pp. 145-174
«Tra schiavitù e cittadinanza: i liberi di colore nel mondo atlantico», Storica, n. 59, 2014, pp. 57-88