Updated: Nov 2023
Federico Mazzini is professor of Contemporary History, Digital History and History of Media and Communication at the University of Padua and coordinator of the Digital Laboratory of Mobility Research at the same university. He has worked on the cultural history of the First World War, with a focus on popular writing and the peasant experience of the conflict ("Cose de l'altro mondo," ETS 2013), the history of technoscientific popularization and technical cultures throughout the twentieth century. In 2021 he published, with Carlotta Sorba, "La svolta culturale" (Laterza) and in 2023 he published "Hackers. Storia e pratiche di una cultura” (Laterza).
From 2017 to 2020 he was member of the Executive Board of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History. In 2022 he took office as associate professor of contemporary history at the University of Padua
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Apr 2022 - present
University of Padua | Department of Historical, Geographical and Ancient Sciences
Oct 2023 - present
University of Padua - Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori
Jan - Apr 2021
Center for Textual and Spatial History (CESTA) | Stanford University
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
University of Padua | Department of Historical, Geographical and Ancient Sciences
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
University of Padua | Department of Historical, Geographical and Ancient Sciences
Jul 2012 - Dec 2021
Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (Sissco)