Phd in DOCUMENTATION STUDIES, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

Filiberto Ciaglia is a doctoral student in Documentary, Linguistic and Literary Sciences (XXXVII cycle), for the curriculum in Geographical Studies, at Sapienza University of Rome.
Graduated with honors in Historical Sciences in September 2018 at Sapienza, with a master's thesis on the history of geographical discoveries entitled "Septentrio. History of the Northwest Passage: first exploration phase of Arctic Canada (1498-1600)", he received a grant in the University Master in "Sustainable development, geopolitics of resources and Arctic studies" at the Italian Society of International Organization and collaborator of the State Archives of L'Aquila.
Since 2020 he collaborated with the Italian Geographic Society in the research project relating to the identification of Protestant missionaries engaged in Southern Africa between 1868 and 1930, with regard to the relationships between them and the European geographical societies. In the same year he was elected councilor in the municipality of Collarmele (AQ) with responsibility for the redevelopment of the historic center and territorial enhancement.
Since June 2021 he has also been a collaborator of the "ProSiMo" international research project, conducted with the "Giuseppe Caraci" geocartographic laboratory of the Roma Tre University and the Universidad de Jaén, in the investigation line relating to the destroyed inhabited centers or severely damaged by the earthquake of southern Calabria in 1783.
As part of his PhD in Geographical Studies he is engaged in a research project relating to the relationship between the city of L'Aquila and its countryside in the modern age, with regard to the dynamics of rural population-depopulation and disaster resilience (XV-XVIII centuries).