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acagliot@barnard.edu
Angelo Matteo Caglioti is an assistant professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, USA. His research intersects late modern European history, history of science, and environmental history. He is particularly interested in the history of fascism in a global perspective, climate science, and European environmental imperialism. He received a PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a BA from the University of Padova, Italy. He was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. His research was supported by the Institute of European Studies and the Center for Science, Medicine, and Society, both at the University of California, Berkeley, the Social Science Research Council, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society.
RCC Research Project: The Climate of Fascism
Selected Publications:
- “‘Natural’ Disasters, Ignorance and the Mirage of Italian Settler Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Africa.” Past & Present (forthcoming 2025).
- “‘In This Country, Water Means Life’: Eritrea’s Erratic Rivers and Italian Irrigation Projects between Adwa and Mussolini (1897–1934).” Contemporanea, no. 2 (2022): 265–91. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1409/103865.
- “Science and Fascism, or Fascist Science? Meteorology in Fascist Italy.” In Rethinking the History of Italian Fascism, edited by Giulia Albanese, 155–79. Routledge, New York, 2022.
- “Race, Statistics and Italian Eugenics: Alfredo Niceforo’s Trajectory from Lombroso to Fascism (1876–1960).” European History Quarterly 47, no. 3 (2017): 461–90. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691417707164.