MILLAN MATTEO

CURRICULUM VITAE

Matteo Millan
Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World
University of Padua (Italy)
Via del Vescovado 30, 35141 Padova (Italy)
Ph.: + 390498278537
Email: matteo.millan@unipd.it
Date of birth: 4th January 1983


CURRENT POSITION

June 2016 – present. Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua (Italy)

October 2016 – September 2022. Principal Investigator of the ERC-StG project ‘The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War’ (PREWArAs - 677199)

February 2018 – January 2023. Principal Investigator of the Italian Ministry of Education and University project ‘A fragile monopoly? Firearms, self-defence, gun licence and the state monopoly of legitimate violence in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom (1860-1960)’ (FRAGMON)


PREVIOUS POSITIONS

October 2015 – June 2016. Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship. Title of the Project: ‘Revolution from the Right? Armed movements, social conflicts and the crisis of the Liberal Regimes in France, Spain and Italy from the 1900s to the early 1920s’. Supervisor: Prof Robert Gerwarth.

June 2013 – May 2015. Gerda Henkel Foundation Marie-Curie M4Human Programme Fellow (Marie-Curie COFUND) in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford (UK). Title of the project: ‘The Heralds of Modernity: nationalist-populist armed movements in pre-WWI Europe’ supervisor: Prof. Martin Conway (Balliol, Oxford University).

February 2013 – January 2014. Junior Research Fellowship (Research Assistant), Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua (Italy). Title of the project: ‘The heralds of violence’; supervisor: Dr Giulia Albanese.

EDUCATION
January 2008 – April 2011. PhD in History - Faculty of Humanities, Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua (Italy). Thesis title: ‘The essence of Fascism: the development of squadrismo between terrorism and normalization (1919-1932)’ [‘L’essenza del fascismo: la parabola dello squadrismo tra terrorismo e normalizzazione (1919-1932)’]. The examination board (chaired by Prof. Emilio Gentile) deemed the PhD thesis excellent.

September 2005 – October 2007. Two-year Master Degree in Modern and Contemporary History [Laurea specialistica in storia Moderna e contemporanea] – Faculty of Humanities, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua (Italy). The Master was completed with a (250-page) thesis on contemporary history. Thesis title: ‘Between Italy and Switzerland: the information network of the Resistance in 1943-1945’, supervisor Prof. Silvio Lanaro. This work earned me a first-class degree (110/110 with honours).


FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS

Feb 2018 – Jan 2023 Italian Ministry of Education and University FARE Grant for the project ‘A fragile monopoly? Firearms, self-defence, gun licence and the state monopoly of legitimate violence in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom (1860-1960)’[€ 192,000]
Oct 2016 – Sep 2022 European Research Council Starting Grant 2015 for the project ‘The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War’ (PREWArAs - 677199) [€ 1,448,776]

Oct 2015 – May 2016 Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship [€ 17,600]

Jun 2013 – Jun 2015 Gerda Henkel Foundation Marie-Curie M4Human Programme two-year fellowship at the Faculty of History, Oxford University [€56,000]

Jan 2013 – Dec 2014 Junior Research Fellowship, Department of Historical, Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua (Italy) [€35,000]

SUPERVISION
I have supervised 10 postdoctoral researchers and 1 PhD candidate.

MAIN RESEARCH LINES
Political Violence, 20th century Europe and Italy, Fascist Italy, Fascism in Europe, First World War, Italian Resistance.

TRACK RECORD
3 books; 6 articles published in international journals (Journal of Modern History, Contemporary European History, European History Quarterly, Journal of Social History); 4 articles published in Italian journals (Contemporanea, Storica, Studi Storici); 5 book chapters in international edited volumes; various chapters in volume of national relevance; several papers presented at international conferences and seminars (including, American Historical Association Annual Meeting