Lina SCALISI

Academic role:

• Vice-Rector of the University of Catania since September 19, 2025;
• President of the Academy of Fine Arts of Catania since June 2020;
• Full Professor of Modern History at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania (DISUM) since the academic year 2016;
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Doctorate in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa since April 2019;
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Doctorate in Cultural Heritage at the University of Catania from 2014 to March 2019;
• Member of the scientific board of the Doctorate in Modern History at the University of Catania from 2009 to February 2014;
• Member of the scientific board of the Doctorate in Contemporary History at the University of Catania from 2003 to February 2009;
• DISUM delegate to the Council of the Scuola Superiore of the University of Catania from 2014 to 2018;
• Coordinator of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Experimental Sciences Classes from May 9, 2019, to December 1, 2019;
• Coordinator of the Humanities and Social Sciences Class of the Scuola Superiore di Catania from 2015 to May 2019;
• Coordinator of the “Culture and New Languages” Laboratory at the Scuola Superiore di Catania, academic year 2013/2014;
• Coordinator of the “Cinema at School” cycle at the Scuola Superiore di Catania from 2015 to the present;
• Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of History since 2015;
• Since 2013, she has been registered in the ANVUR register of evaluation experts;
• Coordinator of the summer school “Arab Springs and Transitions: New Perspectives on the Euro-Med Partnership” with Universitatea Dimitrie Cantemir TG. Mures (Romania), Firat Universitesi (Turkey), and Vilniaus Universitetas (Lithuania) 2012-2014;
• President of the Active Training Internship course for competition class A043, academic year 2012-13;
• Rector's delegate for community and international policies of the Humanities Department from 2009 to February 2013;
• University Erasmus Institutional Coordinator from 2009 to 2013;
• Member of the University Scientific Research Commission from 2011 to 2013;
• Member of the scientific committee of the aforementioned Master's program;
• Since 2003, researcher in modern history;
• From June 1999 to May 2003, she held a two-year research grant at the Chair of Modern History of the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Catania.
• PhD in modern history, 1998.

Research activities

• Director of the Center for the History of Power (CHISPO) Giarrizzo Foundation - University of Catania since 2025.
• ANVUR coordinator for sector 11a (historical, philosophical, and disciplinary sciences) 2020-2022.
• PI of the interdepartmental project GOST. Governing emergencies: politics, territory, rights (Department of Humanities-Department of Law), 2020-2021; 2022-2023.
• PI of the local unit of PRIN 2022 One Hundred Years of European Historiography. Studies and Valorization of the “Rivista Storica Italiana” Archive.
• PI of the Local Unit of PRIN PNRR 2022 A Database on the Slave Trade between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (15th-16th centuries).
• Member of the Laboratory of Historical Documentation and Digital Cultural Heritage (DocStoLab), DISUFF (University of Salerno).
• Member of the Board of the Interuniversity Center for Research and Development of Public History (CISPH);
• Member of the scientific committee Noblesses transnationales en Europe with the Université de Tours CETHIS (Tours), ARCHE (Strasbourg), CERHIC (Reims), Institut universitaire de France, Fondation d'Arenberg 2021-2022.
• Member of the research group of the Permanent Seminar “La Italia española” at the Universidad Juan Rey Carlos-Madrid.
• Member of the research group “Cultura política y de corte: relaciones entre nobleza y Monarquía en la Italia de los Austrias” at the Universidad de Valladolid.
• Member of the research group “Center of power and political culture of the Spanish monarchy in the Baroque period” at the University of Valladolid;
• Member of the research group “Teaching Innovation Project: Virtualization of history degree content in a blended learning environment” at the University of Valladolid.
• Member of the research group “1535, the idea of Europe in Charles V's Tunis enterprise” at the CSIC/Madrid.
• Member of the research group “Les élites italiennes et les monarchies européennes: circulations et réseaux de pouvoir (16th-18th centuries)” at the MSH-Val de Loire and the EHESS.
• Member of El Manifesto de Pastrana, a European research network on the nobility (University of Valladolid, Autonomous University).
• Member of the Interuniversity Center for Documentation on Italian Economic Thought (Florence, Pisa, Siena) based in Pisa.
• Collaboration with CIDEUS at the University of Evora.