University of Bologna and the Department of Political and Social Sciences

Margherita Capannoli is a PhD Student in European Studies at the University of Bologna and the University of Genoa, specializing in European history and integration process. Her research focuses on Italian Foreign Policy and Britain’s access to the EEC (1961-1973). She collaborated as a Research Fellow on different projects concerning Euroscepticism, European history and citizenship and Europe after the Cold War. She is currently a Junior Researcher at CIVITAS-Farcd and a Teaching Assistant for the Bachelor in European studies (BAES) at the University of Bologna. 

Michela Ceccorulli is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Bologna. She is Referent person for the Department of the PhD Programme GOMAP – Public governance, management and policy and Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module REBOUND- Rethinking security in and by the European Union. Her research interests lie around international relations, migration, security and security governance. Among her recent publications, with Enrico Fassi (eds), ‘The EU’s External Governance of Migration. Perspectives of Justice, Routledge 2022. 

Giuliana Laschi is Full Professor of International Contemporary History and History of European integration at the University of Bologna (Department of Political and Social Sciences, Forlì Campus). She is Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in History of the European Integration and President of the Scientific Committee of Punto Europa Forlì – Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Among her latest books: L’Europa e gli altri. (2015); Storia dell’integrazione europea (2021). Among her recent edited books: Europe between Migrations, Decolonization and Integration (2020) with Valeria Deplano e Alessandro Pes; L’Europa adulta. (2020) with Elena Calandri and Simone Paoli.

Marco Borraccetti is Associate Professor of European Union Law at Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita’di Bologna; he is Co-director of the European Regional Master Programme in Democracy and HumanRights in South East Europe (GC/SEE ERMA) and Coordinator of MIGLAB-Studi sulle migrazioni(MIGLAB-Studies on migration), a Center of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Alma MaterStudiorum – Universita’ di Bologna. He is also representing the University of Bologna at the GlobalCampus of Human Rights, where he is Member of the Global Campus Council. His main research interests are migration, borders management and trafficking in human beings froma EU law perspective.

Francesco Privitera is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna. He has served as programme coordinator of the MA in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe. Among his research interests, we may mention: post-communism and political transition processes; Ethnic and minorities’ questions in East Central and Balkan Europe; the idea of State, nationalism and state-building process; Modernization in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

Marco Puleri is Senior Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the MA Programme in East European and Eurasian Studies at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna.

His research interests include contemporary Russian and Ukrainian sociocultural developments and nation-building in the post-Soviet area. His latest book is Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics (Peter Lang, 2020).

Since 2024 he has been member of the research groups: “DIMEast – Diversity and Impacts of Migration at the EU’s Eastern Borders” (Italian Ministry of University and Research); “GEO-POWER-EU” (HORIZON EUROPE).