Federica Morelli

I’m the Principal Investigator of FIS advanced grant “The Italian Peninsula and the Atlantic Slavery. A Forgotten History (BlackItaly)”. My work centers on colonial Latin American history, the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions, slavery and the construction of citizenship and racial categories in 18th- and 19th- century Spanish America. I’ve been the coordinator of the international PhD program in Global History of Empires and m a member of the steering committee of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH). I’ve held visiting fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence (RI), at the Institut de Hautes Etudes sur l’Amérique Latine in Paris, and at the European University Institute in Florence. My main publications include: Territorio o Nación. Reforma y disolución del espacio imperial en Ecuador, 1765-1830 (Madrid, 2005), Il Mondo Atlantico. Una storia senza confini (Roma, 2013), L’indipendenza dell’America spagnola. Dalla crisi della monarchia alle nuove repubbliche (Firenze, 2015), De los Andes al Atlántico. Territorio, constitución y ciudadanía en la crisis del imperio español (Quito, 2018), Claiming Citizenship. Free People of Color in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolution (New York, 2024).