Prof. Dr. Giovanni Orsina is Professor of History at Luiss-Guido Carli University, Italy.

His research interests include the relationship between ideologies, institutions and political struggle, with a particular focus on liberalism.

At Luiss-Guido Carli University Giovanni Orsina is deputy director of the School of Government and director of the Master in European Studies. He is also research fellow of IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, where he is the coordinator of the PhD in Political History.

OrcID: 0000-0002-7950-3836

His latest publications include ‘Political Science as a Modernist Project’, in: C. Domper Lasús and G. Priorelli (ed.), Combining Political History and Political Science. Towards a New Understanding of the Political (London: Routledge 2022); ‘Party democracy and its enemies: Italy, 1945–1992′ Journal of Modern European History 17:2 (2019) 220–233, with T.B. Müller and J. Nevers; ‘Genealogy of a Populist Uprising. Italy, 1979-2019′ The International Spectator 54:2 (2019) 50–66.

Supervision areas: Italian political history, or topics that can be related to Italian political history, since 1945. Late XXth century European political history: processes of depoliticisation since the 1970s, so-called neoliberalism, emergence of so-called populism.