Roberta Biasillo

Dr. Roberta Biasillo is an Assistant Professor in Contemporary Political History at Utrecht University's Department of History and Art History. She joined in 2022 and specializes in the intersection of environmental history and political history, with a focus on Italian liberalism, colonialism, and sustainability pathways.

• PhD in Modern European History (University of Bari, Italy)
• Postdoctoral roles at KTH Stockholm, LMU Munich's Rachel Carson Center, and European University Institute

Key Research Areas: Environmental history, Italian political history, colonial history, sustainability pathways, marginal environments, and global environmental history of Libya.

• Courses taught: Authoritarian Regimes and the Environment, Foundations of Democracy, Politics and Society in Comparative Perspective, The History of Politics, and Writing Skills for Historians