Maria Grazia Melchionni
Degree in Political Sciences, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, with the grade of 110/110 cum laude (1968): final thesis on History of Treaties and International Politics, title: ”The Foreign Policy of Count Sforza after the First World War”; Fellowships of the Ministry of Education, of the National Research Council (C.N.R.), of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (1969-70); Research Assistant in the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Chair of History of Treaties and International Politics (1970); with unanimous judgement of the board of examiners, Associate Professor of Contemporary History (1984); Associate Professor of History of the Risorgimento, University of Milan, Faculty of Political Sciences and Professor of History and Politics of European Integration at the Specialization School of Law and Economics of European Integration, University of Milan (1987-92); Professor of History of Europe, University “ Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta”, Rome (1993-2003); Professor of History and Politics of European Integration and of International Relations, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza, University of Rome. Holder of the Jean Monnet chair of History (1992-2012).
She has been invited to lectures and to participate in international conferences and seminars invited by the following Institutions: University of Lausanne, University of Tübingen, University of Hamburg, University of Budapest, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, University of Paris I, University of Kaunas, University of Malta, University of Aix-Marseille I, University of Rostock, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences of Beijing, Fondazione Europea Dragàn, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Mgimo University of Moscow, EHSAL of Bruxelles, University of Granada, University of Oxford. She has been Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, and Visiting Scholar at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge.
As President of the European Centre of Excellence Jean Monnet-Luigi Einaudi, she has been the Co-ordinator of international and interdisciplinary research programmes on “European identity at the end of the XX Century” and on “Trans-Mediterranean relations at the time being”.
She is member of the Council and of the Scientific Committee of the “Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe” of Lausanne and member of the board of editors of the collection “Studies on the History of European Integration” of Franz Steiner Verlag (Stuttgart).
Founder member and Secretary general of the Oral History Society (1982-1992), Editor of “Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali” (rspi- nuova serie) since 2006.
Author of 91 articles and of the following books: La vittoria mutilata. Problemi ed incertezze della politica estera italiana sul finire della grande guerra (ottobre 1918- gennaio 1919), Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1981; Uno statuto per l’Italia nella strategia rivoluzionaria degli esuli (1831-1833), Pisa, Domus Mazziniana, 1991; Altiero Spinelli et Jean Monnet, Lausanne, Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe- Centre de Recherches Européennes, 1993; Istor. Colui che racconta in veste di testimone. Manualetto per praticare la storia orale, Roma, Edizioni Kappa, 1994; Oronzo Reale (1902-1988). Storia di vita di un repubblicano storico, Venezia, Marsilio, 2000; Europa unita, sogno dei saggi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2001 (translated in Chinese by Dr. Chen Bao Shun, Beijing); (with Luisa Bonolis) Fisici italiani del tempo presente. Storie di vita e di pensiero, Venezia, Marsilio, 2003; Quale domani per questa Europa?, Roma, Studium, 2004; (with Roberto Ducci), La genèse des traités de Rome. 18 entretiens de négociateurs et témoins, Paris, Economica, 2007.
Editor of the following books: Un convitato di pietra. La Pesc nell’Unione europea, Roma, Facoltà di Economia, 2000; L’identità europea alla fine del XX secolo, Roma, Biblioteca della Rivista di studi politici internazionali, 2001; Le relazioni transmediterranee nel tempo presente, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2005; (with Guido Ravasi), Tra Europa e Islam: geopolitica del Mediterraneo, Milano, Nagard, 2008.
