Cecilia Molesini

Cecilia Molesini is doing her PhD in historical studies at the Universities of Padua, Verona and Venice Ca’ Foscari. She is working on the flight and expulsion of Germans from Silesia, Pomerania and Eastern Prussia after World War II and the relationship they had and kept with their homeland in the years after the forced migration until mid-1970s. She is using the method of the history of emotions for analysing ego-documents such as diaries, letters and memoires. During the second year of PhD she spent a semester at the University of Cologne thanks to the Erasmus + program.

She graduated in philosophy with a thesis on the concept of Angst in Heidegger’s “Being and Time”. Then she undertook a master’s degree in international relations with a thesis on the perception of democracy in the former GDR and the rise of right-wing movements in the new Bundesländer (1990-2016) at the University of Bologna. She spent one academic year studying at the Free University in Berlin (2012-2013) and one semester at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow (2015). 

Since January 2018 she has been member of the editorial secretary of the journal “Ricerche di Storia Politica”. Her research interests include German history, East-Central european history, migration studies, political history and cultural history.