About
Francesca Viano serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History within Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Based at 1727 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, she can be contacted at fviano@wcfia.harvard.edu.
Her educational background includes dual doctorates:
- PhD in History from the University of Cambridge
- PhD in Political Science from the University of Perugia
Viano's research examines the historical evolution of moral frameworks, America's ideological alternatives to capitalist systems, and transnational circulation of political concepts. Her work bridges intellectual history with global political analysis, emphasizing cross-border ideological exchanges and historical reinterpretations of foundational political movements.
As an active affiliate of the Weatherhead Center's Global History initiative, she contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship through Harvard's Epicenter platform while maintaining core research focus on conscience as a historical construct and the Federalist Party's international dimensions.
