Lucy Riall

Lucy Riall was Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. She is a professor in the Department of History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in Florence.[1]

Riall studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge. She was a lecturer in Modern European history at the University of Essex before moving to Birkbeck. Since 2004 she has been editor of the journal European History Quarterly.[2]

Among her many prestigious awards are a Visiting Professorship at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and a Senior Fellowship at the University of Freiburg's Institute of Advanced Study.

One of the leading experts on modern Italy, Riall has written on nineteenth-century state-formation and nationalism in Italy and Sicily. Several of her books treat the history of the Risorgimento; Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (2007) examined the popular cult of Giuseppe Garibaldi as a global cultural phenomenon.[3]

Riall speaks fluent Italian and she appears frequently on Italian TV and radio (RAI) as well as on the BBC.

Works

References

  1. ↑ http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/HistoryAndCivilization/People/Interviews/DepartmentofHistoryandCivilizationwelcomesnewprofessors.aspx
  2. ↑ Editor - Lucy Riall
  3. ↑ Reviews: Roland Sarti H-Net review October 2007; David Gilmour "The lion or the donkey?", The Spectator, 10 May 2007; Tim Parks, "The Insurgent: Garibaldi and his enemies", The New Yorker, 9 July 2007; Alexander Stille "The Hero Machine", The New Republic, 16 August 2007

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