Federico Mazzei (1983) is Assistant Professor (RtdB) in Contemporary History (M-STO/04) at the Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communications of Bergamo University, where he is currently teaching Contemporary History (BD), History of Journalism (BD) and History of Journalism 2 (MD).
In 2017 he obtained the national scientific qualification (ASN – Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor for the 11/A3 sector (Contemporary History) by unanimous judment of the Commission.
In 2013 he obtained his Ph.D. in History of Contemporary Age in the XIXth and XXth Centuries “Federico Chabod” (XXIV cycle) at Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna University. In 2014 his doctoral thesis, “Catholics and Liberals from antifascism to the Second World War (1925-1943)” (tutor prof. Roberto Pertici), was awarded by the “Luigi Sturzo Institute” of Rome (Premio “Gabriele De Rosa”).
From 2014 to 2016 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Letters and Philosophy of Bergamo University, where he worked on a research project funded by MIUR (PRIN 2010-2011, “Practices, languages and theories of the delegitimization in the Contemporary Europe”). From 2016 to 2017 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the same Department on a research project funded by the extraordinary plan for research called ITALY® (Italian TALented Young ®eserchears) – Young Action in Research 2016.
From 2017 to 2018 he worked as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Letters, Philosophy, Communications of Bergamo University. Here, from 2018 to 2021, he was Assistant Professor (RtdA) in Contemporary History (M-STO/04).
Since 2019 he is member of the editorial office of «Ricerche di Storia Politica» and, from 2021 to 2022, he was member of the Board (Scientific Committee) of «Nuova Rivista Storica».
