Alessandro Santagata studied modern and contemporary history at the universities of Pisa, Roma Tor Vergata and in Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études. In 2015 he obtained the international fellowship “Fernand Braudel”. In 2018 he was STARS research fellow at Department of Political Science Law and International studies (University of Padova), where he directed the project “Catholic moral conundrums in the Italian Resistance (1943-1945)”. From 2020 he is promoting the Department unity propjet “Getting out of the War. The Holy See and the Italian catholicism in the democratic reconstruction (1944-1950)”. He is member of the editorial board of “Modernism” and “Italia contemporanea”. His research has focused on the history of Italian Catholicism, with particularly attention on the political and cultural dimensions. His most recent publications include: La contestazione cattolica. Movimenti, cultura e politica dal Vaticano II al ’68, (Roma, Viella, 2016); Una violenza “incolpevole”. Retoriche e pratiche dei cattolici nella Resistenza veneta (Roma, Viella, 2021)

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