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\r\nE-mail: matteo.grilli@unipi.it
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\r\nDate and place of birthday: Rome, 12\/12\/1985
\r\nhttps:\/\/matteogrilli.academia.edu\/
\r\nwww.researchgate.net\/profile\/Matteo_Grilli\/research
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\r\nCurrent Position
\r\nAssociate Professor in African History and Institutions at the University of Pisa (2024-)
\r\nAffiliate Research Fellow at the University of the Free State (2023-)
\r\nEditor-in-Chief of the Southern Journal for Contemporary History (2021-)
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\r\nCurrently working on the research projects:
\r\nLocal Struggles and International Connections: Nationalism and Pan-Africanism in Southern Africa
\r\nBeyond Botswana's borders: Radical nationalism, Pan-Africanism and transnational connections
\r\n(1950s to 1970s)
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\r\nEducation:
\r\n2004-2008 B.A. in Medieval, Modern and Contemporary History (cum laude)
\r\nUniversit\u00e0 degli Studi di Roma \u201cLa Sapienza\u201d
\r\nFinal Dissertation: \u2018Cabora Bassa: Development, Anti-colonial War and Solidarism in
\r\nMozambique (1968-1975).\u2019
\r\nAdvisor Prof. Pierluigi Valsecchi
\r\n2008-2010 M.A. in Afro-Asian Studies (cum laude)
\r\nUniversit\u00e0 degli Studi di Pavia
\r\nFinal Dissertation: \u2018The Italian Community in Ghana.\u2019
\r\nAdvisor Prof. Pierluigi Valsecchi
\r\n2010-2015 PhD in History (Holder of a Scholarship by the University of Pavia)
\r\nUniversity of Pavia, University of Leiden (joint PhD agreement)
\r\nFinal Dissertation: \u2018African Liberation and Unity in Nkrumah's Ghana (1957-1966).\u2019
\r\nAdvisors: Prof. Pierluigi Valsecchi (University of Pavia)
\r\nProf. Jan-Bart Gewald (University of Leiden)
\r\nAwards and other qualifications:
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\r\nPublications:
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\r\nBooks:
\r\nM. Grilli, Nkrumaism and African Nationalism: Ghana\u2019s Pan-African Foreign Policy in the Age of
\r\nDecolonization (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
\r\nM. Grilli, and F. Gerits (eds), Visions of African Unity: New Perspectives on the History of Pan-Africanism
\r\nand African Unification Projects (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
\r\nArticles in peer-reviewed journals:
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cLa comunit\u00e0 Italiana in Ghana: Cento Anni di Emigrazione nell'Africa Occidentale\u201d,
\r\nAltreitalie, 42 (2011), pp. 63-80.
\r\nM. Grilli, M. \u201cNkrumah, Nationalism and Pan-Africanism: The Bureau of African Affairs Collection\u201d,
\r\nHistory in Africa, 44 (2017), pp. 295-307.
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cNkrumah\u2019s Ghana and the Armed Struggle in Southern Africa (1961-1966)\u201d, South African
\r\nHistorical Journal, 70, 1 (2018), pp. 56-81.
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cImagining, Building and Living Nkrumaism\u201d, in African Historical Review, 50, 1-2 (2018), pp.
\r\n159-174.
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cAn Historiographical Overview of Nkrumah\u2019s Ideology and Foreign Policy\u201d, Southern Journal
\r\nfor Contemporary History, 44, 2 (2019), pp. 29-54.
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cNazionalismo Radicale e Pan-Africanismo in Lesotho: il Basutoland Congress Party e le sue
\r\nConnessioni globali (1952-1970)\u201d, Afriche e Orienti, 21, 1 (2019), pp. 27-46.
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cExperiencing Arab-African Solidarity: Basotho Activists in Cairo in the 1960s and 1970s\u201d,
\r\nAfrican e Orienti, 26, 1 (2023), pp. 61-88.
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cBeyond the Borders of Lesotho: The Basutoland Congress Party and its Transnational
\r\nNetworks during the Independence Struggle\u201d, Journal of Southern African Studies, in press.
\r\nEncyclopaedia Entry
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cSouthern African Liberation Movements in Nkrumah's Ghana.\u201d In Oxford Research
\r\nEncyclopaedia of African History. Oxford University Press. Article published 7\/1\/2020.
\r\ndoi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190277734.013.736. (8000 words, double-blind peer
\r\nreview)
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cAfrican Socialism and Afro-Marxism\u201d in Routledge Encyclopaedia of the Cold War,
\r\nforthcoming (2025).
\r\nChapters in Books:
\r\nM. Grilli, \u201cColoni Sotto un Dominio Altrui: Le Comunit\u00e0 Italiane di Fronte all\u2019Indipendenza di Ghana e
\r\nCongo\u201d, in Antonio M. Morone, eds, La Fine del Colonialismo Italiano. Politiche, societ\u00e0 e memorie
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