Alessandro Capone

Alessandro Capone, an alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and a PhD in history at Sciences Po, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Humanities of the University of Salerno, where he also teaches late modern and contemporary history in the Department of Cultural Heritage.

In 2020-2023, as part of the national research project (Prin) Il brigantaggio rivisitato. Narrazioni, pratiche e usi politici nella storia dell'Italia moderna e contemporanea launched by the University of Salerno, he coordinated the research group on warfare against counterrevolutionary brigandage in 19t th -century-Southern Italy.

During his PhD, he was granted scholarships from the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, the Service Historique de la Défense, and the École Française de Rome. He held visiting fellowships at Harvard (2017-2018), Cambridge (2018-2019), and the Remarque Institute at New York University (2023).

A specialist in late modern and contemporary Italy, Alessandro is interested in the political, cultural, and military history of the 19 th Century, with a particular focus on the links between war, revolution, and violence in the processes of politicization and nation-building. Based on the PhD thesis he defended at Sciences Po in November 2019, he is currently writing a book on the French occupation of Rome and the protection of papal sovereignty in 1849-1870.

Personal webpage and resume: https://unisa.academia.edu/AlessandroCapone