At E.C.Co., Prof. Alberto Preti offers a modern Italian history course focused on twentieth-century armed conflicts in the European context. He is an associate professor of contemporary history at the Faculty of Education and a member of the Department of Historical, Anthropological and Geographical Disciplines at the University of Bologna. He also teaches contemporary history at the Military Academy of Modena. Prof. Preti oversees the faculty and student exchange programs between the University of Bologna and other European (the Erasmus program) and American universities, in particular the E.C.Co. consortium. He has served as president of the historical institute Parri Emilia-Romagna between 1996 and 2006 and is currently an advisor to the National Institute for the History of Italian Liberation Movements and other institutions dedicated to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian history. His studies and publications have dealt with the construction of democracy in the nineteenth century (the protagonists, political movements, administrative institutions, etc.), the transformation of society and economy in Emilia-Romagna from ca. 1850 to ca. 1950, Fascism, the Second World War and its aftermath, and the history of resistance movements.
