Elena is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World at the University of Padua, where she collaborates on the PRIN 2022 project “Musealising the Italian Scientist (1839-1939): Practices, Narratives, Memories.” In particular, her research focusses on the cultural and political dynamics behind the monumentalization of Italian scientists and the musealization of their material legacies at the Universities of Padua and Pavia in the 19th and 20th century. In 2022-23, she held a Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Scholarship at the Digital Humanities Unit of the University de Geneva, where she worked on public exhibition and acquisition policies related to foreign modern art in interwar France. She earned her PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (Florence), after completing interdisciplinary studies in cultural management and modern European history. Elena currently serves as assistant managing editor of Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science.

https://unipd.academia.edu/ElenaMariaRitaRizzi

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