Bianca Gaudenzi

Bianca Gaudenzi is an Assistant Professor in Modern European History at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, a Bye-Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and a Visiting Scholar at the German Historical Institute Rome. Her career spans prestigious fellowships including a Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellowship (2009-2010), a Newnham College Junior Research Fellowship (2011-2014), and a Marie Curie-ZIF Fellowship (2015-2017) at the University of Konstanz.

• PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (2011)
• MPhil in Modern European History
• Modern Languages and History studies at the University of Florence and Humboldt University Berlin

Bianca's research focuses on 20th-century European cultural and social history, particularly:

• Fascist consumer culture (analyzed in her monographs Comprare per credere and Fascismi in vetrina)
• Colonial consumption in Italy (comparative Libya-Italy studies)
• Post-1945 restitution of looted cultural property (DFG-funded project on Austria/Italy/Germany)
• Memory politics and Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Holocaust awareness in Italy, 1989-2003)
• Gender and media history (female representation in interwar advertising)

Her recent 2024 Special Issue on Italian colonial material legacies integrates art history, law, and postcolonial analysis.

Key scientific accolades include:

• DFG Eigene Stelle grant (2018-2024)
• Royal Historical Society membership
• Italian Ministry of Culture expert (2021-present)
• Over 500 citations according to Academia.edu