CURRICULUM VITAE
of Maria Eleonora Guasconi
Address: via di Città,43 53100 SIENA
tel-fax 0577-223574
email:eleonora.guasconi@libero.it
website:www.unifi.it/unifi/dss/meg.htm

Personal Profile

o Born in Siena on 09/11/1965
· Laurea in International History (June 1990) at the Faculty of Political Science "C. Alfieri" in Florence. Title: La Gran Bretagna e il processo di integrazione europea dal 1955 al 1958, (Great Britain and the European Integration Process from 1955 to 1958; Supervisor Prof. Ennio Di Nolfo, 110 e lode/110).
· PhD in International History (1995) at the Faculty of Political Science in Florence with a thesis titled: Gli Stati Uniti alla ricerca di un valido interlocutore politico e sindacale nella lotta contro il comunismo in Italia dal 1947 al 1955. ( The United States looking for a worthwhile political and labour interlocutor in the fight against Communism in Italy from 1947 to 1955 Supervisor: Prof. Ennio Di Nolfo).
· Fellowship awarded by the University of Padua to make a research at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam working on the documents of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) December 1995- May 1996.
· NATO-CNR Senior Fellowship (Program 1996) to make a research at the George Meany Memorial Archives, Maryland (USA) working on the documents of the American trade unions AFL-CIO- July-August 1997.
o Post-Doctoral Fellowship ath the University of Florence. December 1997- December 1999. Research Project: The Office of Strategic Services' operations in Italy from 1943 to 1945. Supervisor: prof. Ennio Di Nolfo.
· Since January 1997 Assistant in International History and European Integration History at the University of Florence with Prof. Ennio Di Nolfo and Prof. Antonio Varsori
o Since April 1999 Assistant in International History at the University of Urbino with prof. Massimiliano Guderzo.
· Research Contract ( Assegno di ricerca) in International History at the University of Urbino to make a research on the Euro-American Relations during the Sixties. Supervisor Prof. Massimiliano Guderzo. Contract started in September 2000; Renewal September 2001.
· Researches pursued in the following Archives: Public Record Office, London; National Archives, Washington; Library of Congress, Washington; George Meany Center, Maryland; Cornell University, Itacha (NY); Eisenhower Library, Abilene; International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Archives de la Commission Européenne et du Conseil des Ministres, Bruxelles; Archives Nationales, Paris; Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Roma; Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Roma; Archives Historiques des Communautés Européennes Florence; Fondazione Giulio Pastore, Rome; Centro Studi della CISL, Florence; Fondazione Nenni, Rome; Archivio Storico della FIAT, Turin; Archivio del Centro della Produttività,Vicenza.

Teaching

· Lectures on the Cold War Origins, on Western Europe Americanisation and on the European Integration History at the Ural A. M. Gorky State University in Ekaterinburg (Russia) in May 1996; March 1997; March 1998 in behalf of the TEMPUS Program financed by the European Commission.
o Tutor in International History and European Integration History from 1996 to 2000 for the Russian students who spent one academic year in Florence in behalf of the TEMPUS Program.
o Seminars at the Faculty of Political Science in Florence in the academic Years 2000-2001; 2001-2002, in the course of North America History. The Course deals with "American Foreign Policy from 1945 to 2000".
· Seminars at the University of Urbino on "Euro-American Relations during the Sixties" in the Academic Years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.

Research Projects

o Research Project on "Sviluppo sociale e l'attività di assistenza nell'Italia del dopoguerra: l'Amministrazione degli Aiuti Internazionali (1947-1962)" (Social Development and Assistance in postwar Italy: the case of Amministrazione degli Aiuti Internazionali (1947-1962), coordinated by the Fondazione Giulio Pastore in Rome. Research focussed on: I rapporti dell'AAI con l'IRO l'assistenza ai profughi in Italia (1947-1956) (The relationship between AAI and IRO and the question of political refugees in Italy (1947-1956)
o Research Project in Oral History financed by the European Commission and coordinated by the Jean Monnet Chairs for 1997. Interviews to Italian political and labour leaders who played a role in the European Integration Process (Dionigi Coppo, Aride Rossi, Carlo Scarascia Mugnozza). In Italy the project was coordinated by Prof. Maria Grazia Melchionni, Jean Monnet Chair at the Università "La Sapienza" in Rome.
oResearch Project financed by MURST (ex 40%) for 1997-1999 coordinated by Prof. Ennio Di Nolfo of the University of Political Science in Florence dealing with Italian Foreign Policy after World War II. Research Focussed on the role played by propaganda in Italian Foreign Policy after World War II.
oReserach Project financed by MURST (ex 40%) for 1999-2001 and coordinated by Prof. Ennio Di Nolfo of the University of Political Science in Florence dealing with the role played by raw materials in the international system. Research focussed on "The role played by water in the International System".
· Research Project financed by MURST (ex 40%) for 2000-2002 coordinated by Prof. Renato Moro of the Faculty of Political Science Roma III on Foreign Policy, Culture and Public Opinion in Italy. Research focussed on Italy, the United States and the European Community in the second half of the Sixties.
· Research Project financed by Istituto Luigi Sturzo for 2001 on Italy and the European Integration Process, coordinated by prof. Pierluigi Ballini and Prof. Antonio Varsori of the University of Florence. Research focussed on "Italian Trade Unions Attitude towards the European Integration Process in the Seventies".

Conferences

o Conference organised by Fondazione Giulio Pastore in Brescia (6-8 October 1994) with a paper titled: Il Labour Party, il Trade Union Congress e il processo di integrazione europea dal 1945 al 1957 (Labour Party, Trade Union Congress and the European Integration process from 1945 to 1957); (published in the volume L'altra via per l'Europa. Forze sociali e organizzazione degli interessi nell'integrazione europea 1947-1957, (Milano, Franco Angeli, 1995).
o Conference Cercles et milieux économiques au XXème siècle: diversités, convergences et solidarités (Arras 5-7 Decembre 1996) organised by Prof. Eric Bussiére (Université d'Artois) and Prof. Michel Dumoulin, (Université Catholique de Louvain) with a paper titled: The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' Policy towards the European Integration Process from 1950 to 1958 ( published in the volume Cercles et milieux économiques au XXème siècle: diversités, convergences et solidarités, Arras, Artois Presse Uiversitaire, 1998 ).
o Conference "Italy and the European Integration Process" (Florence June 1997) organised by Prof. Antonio Varsori (University of Florence) with a paper titled: Il sindacato e l'Europa. La politica della CISL e della UIL nei confronti del processo di integrazione europea attraverso le carte del Segretariato Sindacale Europeo (1958-1965),(Italian Labour and Europe. CISL and UIL policy towards the European Integration Process from 1958 to 1965) (published in the review Storia delle Relazioni Internazionali XIII 1998/2, XIV 1999/1).
o Conference L'Europe ses Marges et les Autres, (Assisi 8-10 June 1998) organised Prof. Luciano Tosi (University of Perugia) in the context of the international research project Les identités européennes au XXe siècle, with a paper titled American and European Models in the Trade Union Movement during the Cold War. The Italian Case, Napoli ESI 2001.
· Conference The European Communities, 1965-1979: National Decision-Makers and Public Opinion, (Oxford 25-27 September 1998) organised by Prof. Anne Deighton (Wolfson College- Oxford), in the context of the international research project Les identités européennes au XXe siècle, with a paper titled Italian Trade Unions and Europe from 1958 to 1969: a Critical Reappraisal .
o Conference L'Europe de l'Est et de l'Ouest dans la Guerre Froide 1948-1953, (Paris 19-22 November 1998) organised by Prof. George Henri Soutou ( Paris I Sorbonne) with a paper titled International Labour and the Cold War: the Break-up of WFTU in 1949.
o Conference Etats-Unis/Europe/Union Européenne Histoire et Avenir d'un partenariat difficile (1945-1999) (Cergy-Pontoise 18-19 June 1999) organised by Prof. Gérard Bossuat (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), with a paper titled Les tentatives américaines pour américaniser les syndicats européennes pendant la première phase de la guerre froide (1947-1955), Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2001.
o Conference Gli organi consultivi delle Comunità Europee attraverso l'esperienza del Comitato Economico e Sociale, (Florence 29-30 October 1999) organised by the University of Florence and the European Universitary Institute with a paper titled: Il CES e le origini della politica sociale europea (1958-1965)Venezia, Marsilio 2000.(The Economic and Social Committee and the origins of the European Social Policy 1958-1965).
· Conference Americanisation, Cultural Transfers in the Economiec Sphere in the XX Century (Roubaix 20-22 September 2001), organised by Prof. Dominique Barjot (Paris IV Sorbonne), Prof. Marc de Ferrière (Lille 3), Prof. Isabelle Liscent Giles (Paris IV-Sorbonne) with a paper titled Americanisation and National Identity. The Italian Labour Movement Case.