Dario Biocca teaches European
history
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at the
University of Perugia
University of Perugia (Italian ''Università degli Studi di Perugia'') is a public-owned university based in Perugia, Italy. It was founded in 1308, as attested by the Bull issued by Pope Clement V certifying the birth of the Studium Generale.
Th ...
,
Italy
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and has been Coordinatore at Scuola di giornalismo Radiotelevisivo (Perugia). He has a
Ph.D
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. from the
University of California, Berkeley
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and has taught at various institutions in the
US and Italy. He is currently at UC Berkeley teaching a course on "Walls: Separation and Integration" and 20th Century Italy.
Biocca has published:
*"Ignazio Silone, ''La Doppia Vita di un Italiano''", Rizzoli 2005;
*"''L'Informatore. Silone, i Comunisti e la Polizia''", Luni 2000; with
Mauro Canali
Mauro Canali is a full professor of contemporary history at the University of Camerino in Italy. He is considered to be one of the most important scholars of the events leading to the crisis of the liberal Italian state and the rise of fascism. He ...
[ Mauro Canali da Wikipedia italiana]]
*"''A Matter of Passion. Selected Letters of Bernard Berenson and Clotilde Marghieri''", Berkeley and Los Angeles 1989.
*"Il Muro di Belfast"—An astonishing article on the Belfast cemetery, where a 'sunken wall' separates Catholic graves from Protestant ones - Eerie!, La Rebubblica 15 July 2007
* "La bella addormentata"—A reportage from the walled-up city of Famagusta, Cyprus.La Repubblica, May 5, 2008.
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20th-century Italian historians
Academic staff of the University of Perugia
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Italian historians
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