Ms Francesca  Mascanzoni

Ms Francesca Mascanzoni

PhD Student

Department of International History

Languages
English, Italian
Key Expertise
European integration; Decolonisation; Italian Colonialism; Neo-fascism

About me

Francesca is a full-time PhD candidate at the department of International History. She works at the intersection of European integration, decolonisation and ideas about Europe, under the supervision of Professor Piers Ludlow and Dr David Motadel. She holds a BA in Humanities from Bologna University (Italy) with a thesis on Italian colonialism, and received her MRes in Political History cum laude from Leiden University (The Netherlands), writing a dissertation on illiberal conceptualizations of Europe.

 

Expertise Details

European integration history; Ideas of Europe; Decolonisation; Italian Colonialism; Intellectual History; Neo-fascism

Awards

LSE PhD Studentship 2023-2027

Publications

Conference papers 

October 2021: “(De)colonizing European integration. The EEC as a new arena for old colonial questions: from the Treaty of Rome (1957) to the Lomé Convention

(1975)”, Radboud University. 

 August 2021:“The Neo-fascist Project for Eurafrica in post-Second World War Europe, 1950s -1960s”, Europaeum Summer School Imagining Europe: Migration, Borders and the (Re)Making of ‘Europe’, University of St. Andrews.