22/04/2026
Giacomo Spanu, who earned his PhD in our Department, has been awarded the “Franco Angeli Prize 2025 for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Geography,” conferred by the Italian Geographical Society, for his dissertation entitled "The Dual-Use City: Urban Military Geographies in Ordinary Cagliari". The work will therefore be published in the coming months by the publisher in Italian and made available in open access.
This marks the third consecutive year in which our doctoral graduates have ranked first or second in this prestigious award, further attesting to the significance and high quality of the research conducted within our PhD programme.