CV

Education and Experience

• 2014-2018 BA in Russian and History, University College London / Saint Petersburg State University and HSE Saint Petersburg (2016-2017)
• 2018-2021 MPhil in History (European and British History 1700-1850), University of Oxford
• 2022 PhD in History under the supervision of P.D. Dr Petr Maťa, Prof. Federico D’Onofrio and Prof. Christine Lebeau, University of Vienna and Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
• 2023 Research Assistant, Ca’ Foscari University in Venice
• 2024 University Assistant (Prae-Doc), Department of Economic and Social History and Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
  
  

Research interests

• 18th- and 19th-century European History
• History of agriculture
• Patriotism
• Economic and agricultural societies
• Sociability and associationism
• Enlightenment
• History of property rights and property structures  
• Environmental history

Ongoing research

• ‘Property, Patriotism, and the Environment: Agricultural Societies and State-building in the Eastern Alps (1762-1820)’ (PhD thesis)
• ‘Mapping the networks of the Accademia dei Nobili della Giudecca: a sous-champ of 18th-century Venetian Reformism’ (with Bastien Tourenc [Université Lyon 2])
• Political Economy of ‘Small-Scale Agriculture’ in den 18th and 19th centuries (with Aris della Fontana [INED, Aubervilliers-Paris], Mattia Steardo [Università di Torino, Fondazione L. Einaudi] and Giulio Talini [Scuola Superiore Meridionale])
• ‘To Discipline and to Educate: Professional Organizations and the Transformation of Practices in the European Countryside, 18th to 20th Century’ (with Prof. Federico D’Onofrio, Myriam Lichani und Mariia Romanova for the European Social Science History Conference 2025)
• Commission et délégation comme stratégie d’étatisation à l’âge moderne et contemporaine (within the Collège doctoral franco-allemand: Paris 1, LMU, Padua/Venice)
  
  

Networks and activities (selected)

• Co-organiser of the workshop ‘Political Economies of Small-Scale Agriculture: A History between Europe and the Colonial Worlds (ca. 1750-1850)’, Turin (2025)
  
• Marietta Blau Fellowship, OeAD – Austria’s agency for Education and Internationalisation (Paris, 2025)
  
• DOC-Stipendium, ÖAW (2024): Rejected in favor of a position as a university assistant at the DSHCS of the University of Vienna
  
• GO.INVESTIGATIO Fellowship, ÖAW – Austrian Academy of Sciences (Ljubljana, 2024)
  
• Research Grant within the ERC Project 'I prigionieri politici dell’impero asburgico durate il Risorgimento' (Prof. Elena Bacchin and Prof. Marco Cavarzere), Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (2024)
  
• Member of the Collège doctoral franco-allemand: Paris, LMU, Padua/Venice (since 2023)
  
• Member of the Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine /IHMC: Paris 1, ENS, and CNRS (since 2023)
  
• Seed Money Grant, DSHCS, University of Vienna (2023)
  
• Member of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies / DSHCS, University of Vienna (since 2022)
  
• Research Grant(s), German History Society (2020: Impeded by Covid-19 pandemic; 2019)
  
  

Prizes and Awards

• Student Prize, Istituto per gli incontri culturali mitteleuropei (2020)
  
• Caird Fund, Mansfield College / University of Oxford (2019)
  
• Graduate Award, Mansfield College / University of Oxford (2019)

Selected recent publications

• 'Guidobaldo Cobenzl (1716-1797): An Aristocrat between Patriotism and Paternalism’, in Vidic, F. and Stasi, A. (eds.), I Cobenzl. Una famiglia europea tra politica, arte e diplomazia (1508-1823) (Rome and Gorizia: Lithos / Archivio di Stato di Gorizia, 2022), pp. 751-774.