Serena Mocci
Name: Serena Mocci
Title(s): Ph.D.
Email: serena.mocci@unibo.it
Affiliation: University of Bologna
Bio: Serena Mocci holds a Ph.D. in U.S. political and intellectual history from the University of Bologna. Her doctoral research focused on the connection that, in the first half of the nineteenth century, existed between American women reformers, the sphere of domesticity and the process of construction and expansion of the U.S. empire. Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, USA) and at the Centre for Gender History of Glasgow University (Scotland, UK). In 2019 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of History of Columbia University (New York City, USA). Her main research interests include U.S. women’s political culture in the nineteenth century, American transcendentalism, women abolitionists and the relationship between women and the American empire.
She serves as co-chair and event planner coordinator of the Graduate Forum of the Italian Association for American Studies (AISNA).
Areas of interest
US History, US empire, Women’s History, American Transcendentalism, American Political Culture, Nineteenth-Century Reform Movements