SIOLI MARCO MARIO

MARCO SIOLI is Associate Professor at the University of Milan, where he got his Italian Laurea full marks in 1990 with a thesis on popular uprisings after the American revolution. From 2002 he teaches, History of North America for the Bachelor programs in Political Sciences, International Studies and Social Sciences for Globalization, and History and Institutions of North America for the Master in Languages and Cultures for International Communication and Cooperation.
He was vice-president of the Réseau pour le Développement Européen de l’Histoire de la Jeune Amérique in Paris (www.redehja.eu), and on the board of European Association of Early American Studies(www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cas/eeasa/committee). He was member of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), the Omohundro Institute of Early American History (OIEAH), and the Associazione italiana di studi Nordamericani (AISNA).
During his career he obtained the following Fellowships: Newberry Library, Chicago (2008); Huntington Library (2006); Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (2002); Library Company of Philadelphia (1999); Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Charlottesville (1997). For his researches he was nominated Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky in 1998 and won the O.A.H. prize for the best non English language article in 1996.
He published widely on ideology of the Founding Fathers, American expansion in the West and the Mediterranean in the Early American Republic,History of Italian travels and emigrations in the US, History of American travelers in Italy,African-American emancipation,and American Conservatism.
He organizes the “American seminars” and annual conferences bringing to Milan important scholars of the field. Among the last conferences organized: “Promoting Sciences. Benjamin Franklin’s World" (2006); “Thomas Paine and the American Civil Liberties” (2008); “Politics and Political Uses of Abraham Lincoln” (2009); "Creating the Past" (2011).