Dr Marco Duranti
AB (Harvard); PhD (Yale)
Lecturer
Room 851 MacCallum Building
+61 2 9036 9662
Marco Duranti joined the History Department in 2011. He received his doctorate in 2009 from Yale University, where he wrote his dissertation on the genesis of European human rights law. As a doctoral researcher, he was a Fulbright fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2005-06) and a Fox fellow at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (2006-07). In 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Max Planck research group on history and memory at the University of Konstanz.
Research Areas
- History of Modern Europe, particularly Western Europe in the twentieth century
- Transnational history
- History of human rights, humanitarianism, development and genocide
- History and memory
Current Projects
- The politics of human rights and development aid in colonial and post-colonial settings
- Reconciliation and civil society in 20th-century Europe
Selected Publications
Books
Human Rights and Conservative Politics in Postwar Europe (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Articles
“Utopia, Nostalgia and World War at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair,” Journal of Contemporary History 41:4 (October 2006): 663-83.
Areas of teaching and research supervision
Teaching
- HSTY1044: Twentieth Century Europe (semester 2, 2011)
- HSTY2659: Nationalism (semester 1, 2011)
- HSTY7001: The History of Human Rights (semester 1, 2011)
Supervision
Topics in modern European history, especially those in twentieth-century Western European history, transnational history, history and memory, and the history of human rights, humanitarianism, development and genocide.
Recent Conference Activity
“European Human Rights Law as an Instrument of Political Reconciliation.” International workshop on “Political Reconciliation and Civil Society in 20th-century Europe” held at the University of Konstanz, sponsored by the Max Planck “History and Memory” research group and the Center of Excellence on “Cultural Foundations of Integration” (workshop co-organizer) (December 10, 2010).
“Recasting Human Rights Discourse: The European Convention and the Conservative Turn, 1945-1950.” International conference on “Human Rights / Social Rights” held in Potsdam, sponsored by the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (December 3, 2010). (Similar papers delivered at the Columbia University Human Rights Seminar on October 4, 2010, at the Oxford History Faculty seminar series on November 11, 2010 and at the University of Chicago Human Rights Program seminar series on January 18, 2011.)
“The Role of the Holocaust and the Politics of Silence in the Birth of International Human Rights Law.” International conference on “Silence / Schweigen” at Schloss Wartegg (Switzerland). 11th Meeting of the research cluster “The Archaeology of Literary Communication” (October 8, 2010).
“Reconciling the Global Studies and International Relations Paradigms in the Grand Narrative of International Human Rights Law.” Global Studies Association conference, Merton College, Oxford (September 1, 2010). (Similar paper delivered at Osaka University Forum on “Globalisation and Conflict” in Groningen on September 27, 2010.)