Donatello Aramini is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches Late Modern and Contemporary History. He was educated at the University Roma Tre and received the PhD at the University of Cassino. He was visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (in 2023), research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (in 2011 and 2022), lecturer fixed-term at the Sapienza University of Rome (2020-2023), and research fellow at the University of Cassino (2008-2010) and at the University Roma Tre (2017-2018). He taught Democracies ant Totalitarianisms in Contemporary Age, History of Europe, History of Movements and Political Parties, History of Contemporary Italy, and History of Journalism at Freie, Sapienza, Roma Tre, and Cassino universities.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the quarterly journals “Mondo Contemporaneo. Rivista di storia” and “Giornale di storia”.
He is a member of the following academic associations: Sissco (Società italiana per lo studio della storia contemporanea), ATPLC (Associazione di Teoria Politica Lorella Cedroni, where he was elected member of the Steering Committee for the period 2024-2026), SIHS (Society for Italian Historical Studies), Asmi (Association for the Study of Modern Italy), Comfas (International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies), Civitas (Forum of Archives and Research on Christian Democracy).
His main fields of research concern nationalism, Fascism, the history of historiography, with particular attention to the work of George L. Mosse and Renzo De Felice, and the relationship between culture and politics in the years between the two wars (above all between nationalism, Catholicism and Fascism).
Among his publications, the books: La “rivoluzione nazionale”. I nazionalisti, il fascismo e la fine dello stato liberale, 1919-1927 (Sapienza University Press, Rome, 2023) and George L. Mosse, l’Italia e gli storici (FrancoAngeli, Milan, 2010). He’s now completing a book on the myth of Ancient and Christian Rome in Fascist Italy.