Research: PhD in Italy: one history through the Sapienza University documentary sources
Graduated before in Management Engineering (1997) and then in Historical Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome in 2018 (supervisor Professor Marco Cursi - thesis assignment in codicology). After that, he specialized at Scuola di Specializzazione per Archivisti e Bibliotecari of the same University (2024) with a thesis in documentation (supervisor Professor Paola Castellucci). His fields of interest initially focused on the manuscript book and the transition to printing, have expanded to the world of research policy and the discipline of documentation. In his specialization thesis he studied the influence and impact of Vannevar Bush and in particular of Memex in the disciplines of information science in the United States and Europe. And Bush's fundamental role in defining modern research policy led him to question the events of politics and research training in Italy. The research project therefore aims to reconstruct the history of the PhD, the doctorate in Italy, following an approach that is based on the archival and documentary disciplines (and in the adjacent ones belonging to the HIST-04/C sector): that is, it aims to trace a history of the doctorate, in its connections with research policy, which is based on the archival-documentary heritage and, more generally, on documentation understood as a stratification of thought and knowledge. This modus operandi will allow us to provide further critical material on the specific topic and will allow us to deepen the point of view (the expectations but also the reservations) of the Sapienza University, faced with the need to create and develop an advanced level training institute, in which the teaching component was closely connected to that of research.