Phd in HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, RELIGIONS

email: emmanuel.betta@uniroma1.it
phone: 23398
building: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
room: 6

He is actually associated professor of Contemporary History at the department of History, Cultures, Religions of Sapienza. University of Rome. In 2018 he passed the National Scientific Qualification Exams at a level of Full Professor.
He graduated in Political Sciences in 1994 in Bologna. In 1996 he attended a specialization course in Philosophical Anthropology and Science Foundations at Urbino University and in 2002 he took his PHD at the European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization.
In 2000 and 2001 he held a series of seminars at New York University in Florence on gender studies. Between 1999 and 2000 he was Research Assistant at the European University Institute.
Between April and May 2002 he taught Modern History (60-hour course) at the Italian Studies Department of "Luigj Gurakuqi" University in Scutari under a collaboration project between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Florence University and "Luigj Gurakuqi" University in Scutari. From 2003 to 2005 he taught at Ssis (Scuola di specializzazione all'insegnamento secondario) of L’Aquila University, while between 2003 and 2006 he taught Digital methods and historical research at the Italian Human Studies Institute (ISIT-Sum) in Naples.
From 2002 to 2006 he served as contract professor in Modern History at the History, Culture and Religion Department of La Sapienza. University of Rome.
From 2000 to 2006 he served as secretary to Sissco (Società italiana per lo studio della storia contemporanea – Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History) and, from 2002 to 2014, has been responsible for the website of Sissco ( www.sissco.it). As from 2008 he is Director of LIDS (Laboratorio informatico per la didattica della Storia-Computer Science Laboratory for History Teaching) of the History, Culture and Religion Department.
He is a member of Digilab Scientific and Technical Committee and an elected member of the Philosophy, Science, Human and Oriental Studies Faculty Committee. From 2009 to 2012 he has been an elected member of Sissco Executive Committee.
From 2009 he is a member of the Phd College Board in “Society, Politics and Culture from High Middle Ages to Modern Times”. From 2012 he is a member of the Phd College Board in Historical, Anthropological and historic-religious sciences». In October 2012 he was member of the jury for the competition of the 28° cycle and in September 2016 member of the jury for the competition of the 31° cycle. From January 2019 he is coordinator of the Phd in History, Anthropology, Religions
As from 2013 he is coordinator of the International Master between France and Italy for the Department of History, Cultures Religions, of Sapienza University of Rome.
He is member of the scientific board of Digilab, Interdepartmental Centre for Research of Sapienza University of Rome.. And he is member of the didactical and scientific committee of the Master in Digital heritage of the History, Culture and Religion Department. Since 2011 he is elected member of the executive committee of the he Faculty of Letters and philosophy of La Sapienza. University of Rome.
He is chief editor of “Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell’800 e del 900”, and member of the direction board of "Quaderni storici" and “Dimensioni e problem della ricerca storica”. Since 2006 he is a member of ESOPP (Études sociales et politiques des populations, de la protection sociale et de la santé) research group at EHESS Centre de Recherches Historiques in Paris.
He acted as blind referee for the following journal: Quaderni Storici, Annales des demographie historique, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Storia delle donne, Medicina e storia; The social science journal Studi culturali; Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, Rivista storica italiana Storia della medicina, Italia Contemporanea, Storia e problemi contemporanei, Studi culturali; and for the following publishers: Il Mulino, Laterza, Rubbettino Utet.
In May 2007 he acted as invited professor at the Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences sociales in Paris. In 2016 he acted as Visiting research fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History of Oxford Brookes University. In March 2018 is going to be Visiting professor at the Département d’Histoire, Sciences Po Paris.
His main interests in research are concentrated in the history of biopolitics, with particular attention to the interplay between religion, medicine and law. He studied the discipline of the body between religion and medicine with focus on sexuality confession, birth control, definition of ethical and political limits and therapeutic interventions. He also focused on the history of eugenics and historical aspect of contemporary bioethical issues. Part of his research concerned conflict and violence within social and political movements. He also dealt with issues related to impact of digital techniques on historical research, university reform, ethical code for historical research and the relation between law and negationism.