Italia contemporanea is a four-monthly, fully peer-reviewed academic journal. It was founded in 1949 as Il movimento di liberazione in Italia (The liberation movement in Italy) by the National Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Italy (now National Institute ‘Ferruccio Parri’, named after its founder and based in Milan) and took its current title in 1974. From an initial focus on the Italian Resistance, the Second World War and Fascism, Italia contemporanea has increasingly broadened its scope, so as to embrace the entire history of Italy in the 20th and 21st centuries, with a particular focus on the Republican period up to recent years. The journal is open to all areas of historical writing (social, economic, cultural, political and institutional, as well as gender-related and national/racial identity issues). It encourages fresh approaches and methodological awareness, together with transnational and comparative perspectives on Italian history. The journal is made up of three sections: Studies and Research, presenting original research based on primary sources; Notes and Discussions, devoted to historiographical reviews and debates, as well as reports on national and foreign archival records; an extensive and updated Bibliographical Review. Since 2016, this section and two selected research articles (double-blind peer reviewed, as all the other printed ones) are published open access.
General editor: Nicola Labanca ( Università degli studi di Siena
Editorial board: Salvo Adorno ( Università degli studi di Catania , Claudia Baldoli ( Università degli studi di Milano ), Tommaso Baris ("a href="http:// https://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/b/tommaso.baris/"> Università degli studi di Palermo ), Elisabetta Bini ( Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II , Agostino Bistarelli ( Giunta centrale per gli studi storici ), Roberta Garruccio ( Università degli studi di Milano ), Toni Rovatti ( Alma mater studiorum Università di Bologna ), Elisabetta Tonizzi ( Università degli studi di Genova ), Paolo Zanini ( Università degli studi di Milano );
Associate editors; Enrica Asquer ( Università degli studi di Genova , Bruno Bonomo ( Università di Roma Sapienza ), Barbara Curli ( Università degli studi di Torino ), Fabio De Ninno ( Università degli studi di Siena ),Valeria Deplano ( Università degli studi di Cagliari ), Alessio Gagliardi ( Alma mater studiorum Università di Bologna ), Alessandra Gissi ("L’Orientale" Università degli studi di Napoli ).
Advisory editorial board: Marco Armiero, KTH Kungliga Tekniska hogskolan (Royal Institute of Technology), Director EHL (Environmental Humanities Lab), Stockholm, Svezia; Luca Baldissara, Universita di Pisa, Italia; Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University, Stati Uniti d’America; Bianca Gaudenzi, Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, Zukunftskolleg Universitat Konstanz, Wolfson College-Cambridge University, Italia, Germania, GB; Raphaelle Branche, Universite Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, Francia; Alessandro Casellato, Universita Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, AISO, Italia; Christoph Cornelissen, Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Germania; John Foot, University of Bristol, GB; Andreas Guidi, Universitat Konstanz, Germania; Christian Jansen, Universitat Trier, Germania; Pieter Lagrou, ULB Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgio; Antonis Liakos, Εθνικό και Καποδι-στριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Grecia; Manuel Loff, Universidade do Porto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portogallo; Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci, Universite Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint Denis, Francia; Penelope Morris, University of Glasgow, GB; Mila Orlić, Sveučilte u Rijeci (Universita di Rijeka), Croazia; Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University, Stati Uniti d’America; Santo Peli, già Università degli studi di Padova, Italia; Linda Reeder, University of Missouri, Stati Uniti d’America; Mark Seymour, University of Otago, Nuova Zelanda; Molly Tambor, Long Island University, Stati Uniti d’America; Olivier Wieviorka, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay, Francia; Sacha Zala, Universitat Bern, Svizzera
Editorial Staff: Fabio De Ninno (Università degli studi di Siena), Maurizio Guerri (Istituto nazionale Ferruccio Parri), Paola Redaelli (Istituto nazionale Ferruccio Parri)
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE FERRUCCIO PARRI President Paolo Pezzino
Vice President: Manuela Ghizzoni
Directors:: Marilena Adamo, Marco Borghi, Paola Carucci, Gianluca Fulvetti, Isabella Insolvibile, Stefano Pivato, Mario Renosio
Advisory board: Giuliano Albarani, Giorgio Bigatti, Annalisa Cegna, Giampaolo D’Andrea, Claudio Dellavalle, Paolo De Marco, Luca Gibillini, Patrick Karlsen, Federico Melotto, Mino Ronzitti, Marco Rossi Doria, Catia Sonetti, Mario Tosti
General director: Claudio Silingardi
Scientific director: Filippo Focardi
Scientific board: Giulia Albanese, Irene Bolzon, Lucia Ceci, Costantino Di Sante, Emanuele Felice, Enzo Fimiani, Carlo Greppi, Santo Peli, Elisabetta Ruffini, Silvia Salvatici, Antonella Salomoni, Giorgio Vecchio