After completing her degree in Political Science in 1994, Marcella Aglietti specialised in "Modern and Contemporary History" at the Sant'Anna Superior School in Pisa in 1999. She received numerous post-doctoral and research fellowships in Italy (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, l’Università di Pisa and il Sant’Anna) and abroad at the Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Verkehr in Austria; and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, collaborating with the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). In 2006, she became a researcher in the History of Political Institutions, later a tenured professor, and since 2016 she has been an ordinary professor (full professor) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pisa. Her research topics are directed towards institutional and political history in the Modern and Contemporary Age. Specifically, she has dealt with the mobility of the elite in the Grand Duchy of Dorsany as well as the consular institutions in the Mediterranean area between the 18th and 19th centuries. At the same time, she was interested in the History of Spain and the functioning of representative and government bodies and the history of citizenship. She is the author of a dozen volumes (between monographs and collections), and has more than 70 articles published in volumes and scientific journals both in Italy and abroad. Along with her research career she held various institutional positions, forming part of the Academic Senate of the Università di Pisa representing the Area delle Scienze giuridiche, economiche e statistiche, politiche e social. She was also deputy director of the Department of Political Sciences; she is currently the delegate of the Dean of the Università di Pisa for the Doctoral Degree course.

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