Renato Camurri
Visiting ScholarAssociate Professor
History
University of Verona
Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x232
E-Mail: camurri@fas.harvard.edu
Biographical Statement
Camurri is associate professor of contemporary history at the University of Verona, Italy. He received a Ph.D from the University of Turin in 1992, and he was post-doctoral fellow at the University of Venice in 1993-1995. Specialist of political and cultural history of European liberalism, Camurri investigates, in a comparative prespective, the organization of political systems and the profile of notables and ruling classes in Italy, Germany, France and Spain (XIXth-XXth). His current researchs include studies on political élites of fascism, and on the exile of italian intellectualls in United States from 1930 to 1950. Camurri was Lauro de Bosis post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard University in 2004-2005, and in this academic year he holds a Fulbright Research Scholar Fellowship. He will be in residence at CES from February through August 2007.