Francesca Russo is currently Full Professor of History of political thought, at the Department of Education of Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples. In 2011, she got a scholarship at the Max Planck Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte. She was “visiting researcher” there in 2014 and 2016. She was “visiting researcher” at: the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology of the University Edinburgh (2014); Laboratoire d’Etudes Romanes of University Paris 8 (2015, 2016, 2018); Department of modern languages and literature of University Ottawa-U Ottawa (2015); the School of World Studies ,Virginia Commonwealth University (2017) ; the School of Antropology and Conservation, University of Kent (2016); Faculdad de Filosofia , Universidad de Càdiz (2017).
Among her publications: Donato Giannotti pensatore politico europeo, (Guida,2016); Alle origini della Società delle nazioni, (Studium, 2016); Hieronimus Megiser studioso del Mediterraneo (Roma, Fondazione Matteotti, 2019); Il Nouveau Cynée fra Utopia e ragion di Stato: scenari interpretativi (Lecce, Milella, 2020).