EDUCATION:
2005: Defence of Ph.D. (‘Perfezionamento’) thesis Una strana alleanza: la Compagnia di Gesù in Russia dal 1772 al 1820 (A strange alliance: the Society of Jesus in Russia from 1772 to 1820) in Modern History from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, awarded full marks cum laude. Commission: Prof. Mario Rosa (supervisor, SNS), Prof. Adriano Prosperi (SNS), Prof. Sergei G. Jakovenko (Science Academy, Moscow), Prof. Antonio Trampus (University of Venice)
1997-1999: Fellowship at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, Naples with a project on “Anti-Jesuitism in Europe during XVII and XVIII century”
1993-1996: PhD student at SNS, Pisa, Department of Humanities, supervisor: Prof. Mario Rosa
1992: M.A. (‘Degree’) in Humanities from University of Rome “La Sapienza”: dissertation on the Society of Jesus in Russia between 1796 and 1820 (Sopravvivenza ed espansione: La Compagnia di Gesù in Russia 1796-1820), awarded full marks cum laude. Supervision: Prof. Maria Clara Castelli
WORKING EXPERIENCE:
2011: Assistant Professor in Modern History (“Ricercatore”) at the University of Macerata
2009-2010: Temporary Lecturer ('Professore a contratto’) at the University of Napoli “L’Orientale”
2005-2008: Research Fellow (‘Assegnista di ricerca’) at the University of Bari
2004-2005: Temporary Lecturer ('Professore a contratto’) at the University of Bari (Taranto office)
2003-2004: Temporary Lecturer (‘Professore a contratto’) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2001-2003: Research Fellow (‘Assegnista di ricerca’) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”
2000-2001: Temporary Lecturer (‘Professore a contratto’) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”
1999-2000: Editorial coordinator of project co-financed by the Italian Ministry for Universities and Scientific Research and the Universities of Cagliari, Rome, Turin and Viterbo, entitled Una enciclopedia della sinistra europea nel XX secolo. (An encyclopaedia of the European left in the 20th century)
RESEARCH GRANTS:
2010 : University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
2007: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
1997 : Istituto Italiano di Studi Storici, Napoli
1995: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
1994: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
1993: Einaudi Foundation, Turin
PARTICIPATION IN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECTS (PRIN):
2005-2006: Inquisition, heresy and society in Italy during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, general supervision: prof. Adriano Prosperi, Bari unity supervision: prof. Pierroberto Scaramella.
2003-2004: Inquisition, heresy and society in Italy and Spain during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, general supervision: prof. Adriano Prosperi, Bari unity supervision: prof. Pierroberto Scaramella.
2000-2002: Inquisition, heresy and society in Italy during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, general supervision: prof. Adriano Prosperi, Bari unity supervision: prof. Pierroberto Scaramella.
MEMBERSHIP:
SISEM (Società Italiana per lo Studio dell’Età Moderna)
Renaissance Society of America
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (INVITED LECTURES):
2011: The Rites controversy in the Early Modern World, international conference organized by EHESS, Paris, 26-27 may.
2011: Los Jesuitas .Religión, política y educación (Siglos XVI‐XVIII), international conference organized by Universidad Pontificia Comillas-IULCE, 22-25 june.
2010: Francisco de Borja y su tiempo 1510-1572. Politica Religion y Cultura en la Etad Moderna, international conference organized by CEU and CSIC, Valencia 7-10 april, with the paper La dimissione dall’ordine al tempo di Francisco de Borja: una nuova questione storiografica.
2010: Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Venice 7-10 april, with the paper A geography of the Jesuit perfection: concerning the inquiry De detrimentis promoted by Claudio Acquaviva.
2009: Percorsi di gesuiti tra dissidenze e obbedienza. Scienze, pastorale, politica (secc. XVI-XIX, international conference at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, 10-11 december, with the paper Dissentire per sopravvivere: la Compagnia di Gesù in Russia fra Sette e Ottocento.
2008: La Compañía de Jesús y su proyección mediática, international conference at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 20-30 october, with the paper Propaganda, diffamazione e opinione pubblica: i gesuiti e la querelle sui riti malabarici.
2008: Permanenze e cambiamenti nella storia dell’Inquisizione. Per una discussione di Andrea Del Col, ‘L’Inquisizione in Italia’, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with the paper L’inquisizione romana e lo scontro con le culture orientali.
2008: Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago (section: The Communication of Appearances: Dress and Identity in the Early Modern World), with the paper: Spies, Mandarins, Brahmins: the Jesuits and their disguises.
2008: Storia e Archivi dell’Inquisizione a dieci anni dall’apertura dell’Archivio della Congregazione per la dottrina della fede, international conference at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, with the paper: Inquisizione romana e riti malabarici: una controversia.
2006: Dallo spirito alla struttura. Le Costituzioni e lo sviluppo della cultura gesuitica, international conference at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome, with the paper: Giano bifronte: la Compagnia di Gesù tra Imago primi saeculi (1640) e antigesuitismo secentesco(forthcoming).
2004: La Compagnia di Gesù tra eresia e ortodossia. Dalla fondazione dell’ordine alla conclusione del concilio di Trento, conference at the Fondazione Firpo, Turin, with the paper: I gesuiti al concilio di Trento
2004: La Russia e i gesuiti nel regno di Paolo I e Alessandro I, international congress at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome, with the paper: Un rapporto conflittuale:gesuiti, ortodossi e conversioni al cattolicesimo nella Russia del primo Ottocento
2004: La Russia tra oriente e occidente, congress at the Dipartimento di Storia dell’Università di Pisa, with the paper: Sospesa tra due mondi: la Compagnia di Gesù in Russia (1772-1820)
2003: I gesuiti in Europa durante la soppressione (1762-1814): cultura, politica, religione, congress at the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione e della Formazione dell’ Università degli Studi di Torino, with the paper: La catena ininterrotta: i gesuiti in Russia tra cultura, politica e religione
2003: Antijésuitismes de l’époque moderne, international conference organised by CARE (EHESS) Paris-Rome, with the paper : Antigesuitismo gesuita e antigesuitismo politico: i Monita Privata Societatis Jesu
2002: The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773, international conference at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with the paper: Between History and Myth: The ‘Monita Secreta Societatis Jesu’
2002: Rossija i Iezuity v carstvovanie Ekateriny II, 1772-1796, international congress at the Historical Institute of the Science Academy of Moscow, with the paper: Vyzivanije iezuitov v Rossii v publicistike togo vremeni: nekotorye mnenija, in Rossija i Iezuity 1772-1820
1995: Papes et Papauté au XVIIIe siècle, international congress organised by the Socièté du XVIIIe siècle, Chambéry, with the paper: Il paradosso dei gesuiti: contro il papa per fedeltà al papa.
REVIEW-ARTICLES:
1. P.-J. Clorivière-A. de Cicé, Correspondance 1787-1804, in “Cristianesimo nella storia”, 17, (1996), pp. 668-670
2. AA. VV., Hommes de Dieu et Révolution en Provence, in “Cristianesimo nella storia”, 20, (1999), pp. 218-222
3. M. Inglot, La Compagnia di Gesù nell'Impero russo (1772-1820) e la sua parte nella restaurazione generale della Compagnia, in “Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa”, XXXV, (1999), 3, pp. 616-619
4. M. Catto, Un Panopticon catechistico. L’arciconfraternita della dottrina cristiana a Roma in età moderna, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2003; in “Rivista di storia del cristianesimo”, 2, 1/2005, pp. 266-271
5. M. Caffiero, Battesimi forzati. Storie di ebrei, cristiani e convertiti nella Roma dei papi, Viella, Rome 2004, published in “Archivio Storico Italiano”, 2006, pp. 353-356
6. S. Pastore, Il vangelo e la spada. L’Inquisizione di Castiglia e i suoi critici, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2003, in “Hispania sacra” (forthcoming).
Sabina Pavone is Assistant Professor at the University of Macerata.
She graduated in East-European History from Rome University in 1992. While doing her doctorate degree she was able to profit from the high scientific level and multi-disciplinary environment at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, particularly through attending Prof. Mario Rosa’s Modern History and Prof. Armando Petrucci’s Palaeography seminars. During those years, monthly scholarships at the ENS in Paris enabled her to broaden her research perspectives and methodology into the international dimension, aided particularly by her use of the Italian, French, Polish and Russian archives. In addition, since 2000 Sabina Pavone has been part of Adriano Prosperi’s research group on the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Age (having taken part in all of this group’s national research projects –PRIN- financed by the Italian Ministry for Universities and Scientific Research). The same working group – under the leadership of A. Prosperi – also completed the Dizionario storico dell’inquisizione project, to be published by Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, for which the candidate contributed to the headword definitions and also wrote numerous entries.
Then, after her doctorate years, Sabina Pavone won a two-year scholarship to the Scuola di Studi Storici of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (headed by Prof. Tullio Gregory) and here, too, was able to benefit from the institution’s multi-disciplinary environment by widening her interests and skills in the philosophical and literary fields and taking part in the School’s monthly seminars involving internationally renowned teachers (including C. Vasoli, M. Fumaroli, and B. Neveu). Subsequently, she received two temporary lecturerships, the first at the Political Science Department in the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and the second at the Educational Sciences Department in the University of Bari, with which she still collaborates.
She also had in 2011 the "qualification de maitre de conference" for the section: 22- Histoire et civilisations : histoire des mondes modernes.
At the scientific level, her research area is situated at the intersection of various disciplines: institutional history, religious history and cultural history, and focuses on two areas: the first concerns the penetration of Catholicism into Poland and Russia in the modern age, while the second is aimed at investigating the relationship between the religious orders and the Roman Inquisition. After her thesis on the survival of the Jesuits in Russia at the end of the 18th century, Sabina Pavone published numerous essays on Catholicism and the Jesuits in the Czarist Empire in Italian and Russian, and took part in many international meetings. She wrote a book on the Black Legend of the Society of Jesus, examining the genesis and fortunes of an anti-Jesuit libel published at Cracow in 1614 (Monita privata Societatis Jesu). She has also published various contributions on anti-Jesuitism in international journals and books. Sabina Pavone then published a summary of the history of the Jesuits from their origins to their suppression. Responding to the recent historiographical debate on centre and periphery, she highlighted the international dimension of the Society and its capacity to adapt to quite different social and geographical contexts. Conscious of the importance of studying modern Europe beyond national boundaries from a comparative viewpoint, effective above all in the investigation of religious phenomena and practices, she collaborated with Marina Caffiero and Franco Motta in organising a day of study on Identità religiose e identità nazionali in età moderna (Religious and national identities in the modern age), where specialists were able to encounter each other on the problem of collective identity and the relationship between states and religious orders in the modern age within a European perspective.
As regards the relationship between the Roman Inquisition and religious orders, she has focused her research on the field of the difficult relations between the Church of Rome and Eastern cultures by investigating the querelle relating to the Chinese and Malabar Rites between the 17th and 18th centuries. The results of this research were presented in several prestigious centres, such as the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2008).
She is now studying the inquisitorial material relating to Dubia circa sacramenta and Matrimonia mixta in the lands of the missions. She realised that these questions were also of great interest to the Russian Orthodox world and were largely unexplored from the point of view of historiography. Sabina Pavone therefore decided to make use of her interlocking research skills – as much historiographic as archival - on Eastern Europe and the Church of Rome to investigate the theme of mixed marriage in the Czarist Empire. In may 2007 she was invited to hold seminars by EHESS’s CERCEC and CARE centres, where she was able to make fruitful contacts with these institutions.
Research results
In the course of a research career lasting ten years, Sabina Pavone has achieved important results by responding to innovations in the historiographical debate of today (case studies, histoire croisée) and putting them to good use in her archival research and interpretative work. Her capacity for independent, critical thought is confirmed by her participation in important international meetings and also by the publication of her books and essays in recognised specialist journals. Her research topics on anti-Jesuitism in Europe in the modern age have made evident the importance of both this topic and religious propaganda for understanding the genesis of public opinion in Europe, by proposing a periodisation which is earlier than that of Habermas. In particular, in her book Le astuzie dei gesuiti she emphasised the need to combine sources of different kinds (memoirs, correspondence, archival material, legal sources, literary texts) to understand the origin and formation of a topos such as the “two-faced scheming” of the Jesuits. The decision to study a religious order such as the Society of Jesus from a perspective that also takes account of its impact on public opinion has opened up new research fields that have been taken up by other researchers . They also contributed to the approach taken at the meeting in October 2008, organized by the Universidad Autonoma di Barcelona (La Compañía de Jesús y su proyección mediática). As regards Russian history, Sabina Pavone’s research on the penetration of Catholicism into the country was carried out using new archival sources, such as those of the Bibliothèque Slave and the Italian and Polish archives of the Society of Jesus and showed the importance of escaping from the ideological and institutional dimension into which research on relations between Russia and the Catholic Church in the modern age had been concentrated until recent times. Analysis of Catholic minorities’ confessional practices, as well as the educational institutions set up for, among other things, proselytising, have allowed an examination of the networks of relations between minorities and the rest of Russian society, especially in St. Petersburg at the end of the 18th century.
Recognition of Sabina Pavone’s work within the academic community has been helped by the publication of her works in five different languages (Italian, English, French, Spanish and Russian). She has therefore had the chance to discuss her results at an international level, obtaining valuable recognition by having her work reviewed in important European and American journals and receiving invitations to take part in international meetings. The European dimension has been equally present in her research work, both at the archival level – using, moreover, archives of various different kinds (religious, diplomatic, state and family archives) – and at the level of secondary sources, given the ample access she has had to libraries in several countries (Italy, France, Spain, England, Poland, Russia and the United States).
Independent thinking and leadership qualities
In her lengthy research career Sabina Pavone has been able to demonstrate a capacity for original research in her field as well as an ability to manage research projects of international dimensions. In 1996, together with other young historians, she set up the Associazione RSM (Multimedia Historical Research Association) which produced various CD-ROMs for several newspapers and for the publishing house Laterza. This included a CD-ROM entitled La Resistenza 1943-1945. Involving more than fifty writers, this project was managed by Sabina Pavone and the other four members of the Association RSM. From 1999 to 2000 she was the coordinating editor for another large project financed by the Ministry for Universities and Scientific Research and the Universities of Cagliari, Roma, Turin and Viterbo. This involved more than a hundred writers in the production of a biographical dictionary of the Left in Europe, published in 2000 under the title Una enciclopedia della sinistra europea nel XX secolo. Sabina Pavone's involvement in these projects enabled her both to extend her research skills to cover the contemporary period and to strengthen her organisational ability through the management of projects of European dimensions, broadening considerably her network of contacts. Since 2000, she has also been involved in a large research project into the Roman Inquisition, coordinated by Prof. Adriano Prosperi, and has helped organise annual seminars for the research group. This activity has enabled her to develop skills in the management of academic research, fund raising, network building etc.
Sabina Pavone has taught for almost ten years at various universities (Rome, Bari and Taranto), enabling her to perfect her teaching skills. This activity has also included the creation of working group seminars. Supervising theses relating mainly to the history of religion in eastern Europe has also given her the opportunity to oversee and advise students in their research work.