Marco Armiero
Marie Curie Fellow

marco.armiero@issm.cnr.it
marco.armiero@uab.cat

Short Bio
Marco Armiero (Ph.D. in Economic History) is  an environmental historian and a Senior Researcher at the National Research  Council, Italy. Marco is a fellow at Eco2BCN/ICTA his research funded by an EC  Marie Curie grant. He is one of the founders of the environmental history field  in Italy, authoring, among other works, the first Italian textbook on the  subject. His main topics of study have been the history of environmental  conflicts over property rights and access to common resources (forests and  sea), the politics of nature and landscape in Italian-nation building, and the  environmental history of mass migrations. In English, he has published several  essays and edited the book Views from the South. Environmental Stories from the  Mediterranean World (19th -20th cent.) in 2006. In the next few months the Ohio  University Press will release his edited book "Nature and History in  Modern Italy". After two short periods of research at the University of  Kansas and Brown University, in the last years Marco has been working at the  Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, at the Environmental Science,  Policy and Management Department, UC Berkeley, and at The Bill Lane Center for  the American West, Stanford University, where he was a visiting scholar in  2007-2008 and 2009-2010 with a grant from the National Endowment for Humanities  and the Italian Research Council. At Stanford Marco worked on his project on  the environmental effects of mass migrations, using as a case-study Italian  immigration in the US West.

At the ICTA Marco will work on his new research project  "LARES – Landscapes of Resistance. Science, Power, and Environmental Justice in  the Struggle over Garbage and Incinerators in Contemporary Naples, Italy". On  this topic he has already published an article on Left History 13:1 (2008).

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