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Dr. Simone Selva

Research Fellow
German Historical Institute
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U.S.A.
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Biographical Summary
Simone Selva holds a PhD in Contemporary European History from the University of Milan and a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Bologna. A former associate fellow at Oxford University, he was visiting scholar at Columbia and Harvard Universities. His research interests revolve around the interplay between the process of international trade and monetary interdependence from Bretton Woods through the 1970s, and the twofold development of mass consumption markets and energy policies in the international relations system.
He is the author of Integrazione internazionale e sviluppo interno. Stati Uniti e Italia nei programmi di riarmo del blocco atlantico 1945-1955 (Rome: Carocci 2009), whose revised and updated version was recently published as Supra-National Integration and Domestic Economic Growth. The United States and Italy in the Western Bloc Rearmament Programs, 1945-1955 (Bruxelles-New York-Oxford-Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2012).

Main Areas of Interest
  • Historical Political Economy of Mass Consumption
  • Twentieth Century History of International Economic Relations
  • Oil and Energy History

GHI Research Project
  • Money markets, industrial credit, and foreign trade: American Assistance policy, International Economic Institutions and the Shaping of West European Consumer Societies from Bretton Woods through the 1970s recession.

Professional Positions
2012-2013
 Visiting Research Fellow in the History of Consumption at the GHI
2010-2011
 Harvard University, Center for European Studies, Visiting Scholarship
2009-2010 Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Visiting Fellowship
2007-2008 Columbia University, History Department, Visiting Scholarship
2006-2008 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Bologna
2006-2007 European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization, Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship
2006-2007 Oxford University, Rothermere American Institute, Associate Fellowship
2005-2006 Oxford University, Rothermere American Institute, Visiting Fellowship

Education
2001-2005 Ph.D. in Modern European History, State University of Milan, Department for the History of Society and Institutions
2000-2001
 MA in Contemporary European StudiesSussex European History, Sussex University,
1999 Postgraduate Summer School in US History, University of California at Berkeley
1992-1999 B.A. in History, University of Bologna, Department of History, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy

Publications

Monographs

  • S.Selva, Supra-National Integration and Domestic Economic Growth. The United States and Italy in the Western Bloc Rearmament Programs, Bruxelles-New York-Oxford-Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012.
  • S.Selva Integrazione internazionale e sviluppo interno. Stati Uniti e Italia nei programmi di riarmo del blocco atlantico, 1945-1955, Roma: Carocci, 2009.

Edited Special Journal Issue

  • "Petrolio e risorse energetiche nella storia del 900", special issue of 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, 4 (2011) monographic issue on "La fine del petrolio. Risorse energetiche e democrazia in eta' contemporanea" [The end of Oil. Energy Resources and democracy in contemporary history] (with Elisabetta Bini).

Articles and Book Chapters
  • "Industrial restructuring and changing social regulation. The case of Italy's search for a new import substitution energy model and the State shareholding system between domestic stability and external equilibrium", in".Stefan Muller (ed.), Changes in Social Regulation. State, Economy, and Social Protagonists since the 1970s, forthcoming 2013.
  • "Le recessioni del XX secolo tra interdipendenza economica e sovranità nazionale".[Economic crisis and recessions in the Twentieth Century between economic interdependence and national sovereignty], Il Ponte. Rivista di politica economia e cultura, forthcoming, Winter 2012/13.
  • "The American Petroleum Institute (API)" , in M.Lindstrom (ed.), Encyclopedia of the US Government and the Environment: History, Policy, and Politics, Santa Barbara, Ca: ABC-Clio, 2010.
  • "L‟industria militare" [The Military Industry], in M.Isnenghi (ed.), Italiani in guerra[Italians at War], Vol. V, Le armi della Repubblica [the Italian Republic and Its Weapons], edited by Nicola Labanca, Torino: Utet, 2010, pp. 266-284.
  • "Recovery and Security. Early US Military Assistance to Italy and the Beginning of European Economic Integration", in A.C.Lauring Knudsen-M.Rasmussen (eds), The Road to a United Europe. Interpretations of the Process of European Integration, Bruxelles : Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 137-153.
  • "Recessione economica e ristrutturazione industriale. Il sindacato emiliano nella crisi degli anni Settanta" [Recession and Industrial restructuring. The Emilian Trade Union Movement and the Crisis of the 1970s], in A.De Bernardi-V.Romitelli-C.Cretella (eds), Ripensare gli anni Settanta. Tra crisi mondiale e movimenti collettivi [Rethinking the 1970s. Amid World Crisis and Collective Movements], Bologna: Gedit, 2009, pp. 285-304.
  • "Dall‟arretratezza all‟innovazione: la politica monetaria e l‟evoluzione del sistema produttivo reggiano tra anni Sessanta e Settanta" [From Social and Economic Backwardness to Industrial Advance. The Italian monetary policy and a Local Industrial System from the 1960s through the1970s], in L.Baldissara (ed.), Tempi di conflitti, tempi di crisi. Contesti e pratiche del conflitto sociale a Reggio Emilia nei ‹‹lunghi anni Settanta›› [Years of Conflicts, Years of Crisis. The Social Conflict in Reggio Emilia throughout the Long 1970s: Contexts and Dynamics], Napoli: L‟Ancora del Mediterraneo, 2008, pp. 41-86.
  • "Il capitalismo dei consumi" [A Consumerism-driven Model of Capitalist Development], 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, special issue on "Imperi coloniali. Italia, Germania e la costruzione del mondo coloniale", edited by Michele Nani and Stefano Petrungaro, 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, no. 1 (2009), pp. 201-205.
  • "L‟azione sindacale in un‟economia arretrata. La CGIL nella modernizzazione italiana del Novecento" [Trade Union bargaining policies in a backward economy. The Left-word Italian Trade Unions throughout the Twentieth Century Modernisation], special issue on "Cent‟anni di sindacato nel Veneto. Lavoro, lotta, organizzazione [One Hundred Years of Trade Union History in Veneto. Work, Labor Conflict, Labor Organisation], Venetica, vol. 20, no. 13 (2006), pp. 179-205.
  • "Gli industriali bolognesi e la ristrutturazione postbellica: scelte economiche e iniziative imprenditoriali tra anni Quaranta e Cinquanta" [Firm-owners and the Post WWII industrial Reconstruction between Industrial Policies and Entrepreneurial Initiatives: the Case of Bologna], in L.Baldissara (ed.), Democrazia e conflitto. Il sindacato e il consolidamento della democrazia in Italia e in Emilia Romagna [ Democracy and social conflict. The Italian Trade Union Movement and the strengthening of Democracy in Italy and in Emilia Romagna], Milano: Franco Angeli, 2006, pp. 257-298.
  • "The Economic Implications of Early Military Assistance to Western Europe under the Truman Administration, 1949-1951", Business and Economic History, 2005 (http://www.h- net.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHonline/2005/selva.pdf).
  • "State and Economy in Italy before the Economic Miracle: Economic Policy and International Constraints since the Reconstruction through the pre-Boom Years", Business and Economic History, 2004 (http://www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHonline/2004/Selva.pdf).

Book reviews appeard in Central European University Political Science Journal (2011-2012), Canadian Journal of History (2013); 900. Per una storia del tempo presente (2007-2009); Enterprise and Society (2005-2007); Portuguese Studies Review (2003); Rassegna di storia contemporanea (2000-2001).