Sergio Luzzatto

Sergio Luzzatto is professor and the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History. He was born in Italy, and received his Ph.D from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, as well as from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Before joining UConn, he taught for almost twenty years at the University of Turin, as a full professor in European Modern History. Whereas his Ph.D. dissertations and his earliest publications dealt with the French Revolution and its legacy in nineteenth-century Europe, starting from the mid-1990s his academic work has focused mostly on twentieth-century Italy. His publications cover a large ground – from the Thermidorian Reaction to the Italian Risorgimento, and from Interwar France to Post-World War II Italy – yet they have all contributed to a single “longue durée” historical field: the origins, evolutions, and transformations of Modern Europe’s political cultures. After arriving at UConn in 2020, he wrote a family portrait of Emiliana Pasca Noether, the former UConn history professor after whom his chair is named: The Noethers: A Family Saga in Advanced Mathematics and Transnational History (Amherst, Small Batch Books, 2023). Nineteenth century and twentieth century Italian history; Eighteenth century and nineteenth century French history; Twentieth century Jewish studies.

The Noethers: A Family Saga in Advanced Mathematics and Transnational History (Amherst, Small Batch Books, 2023). Primo Levi e i suoi compagni. Tra storia e letteratura (“Primo Levi and His Fellow Prisoners. Between History and Literature”), Rome: Donzelli, 2024. Moshe’s Children: The Orphans of the Holocaust and the Birth of Israel, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022).