Annalisa Furia

After having obtained a PhD in History of Political Thought (2005) and having published my PhD thesis (which was assigned the National Prize for the best Phd thesis in July 2006), I was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and then two Research Fellowships to carry out a research on the nexus between, on the one hand, human rights and human development theories (A.K. Sen, M.C. Nussbaum) and, on the other, human development and human security concerns in development cooperation theory and practice with a particular attention to their implications and impact in political terms.

I am currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, conducting a research on "Political Power Beyond the State: Foreign Aid, Development and Migrations. Amitié CODE - Capitalizing on Development".

My main research interests concern: the investigation of foreign aid and humanitarianism as contemporary international practices of government; the analysis of migration, particularly of child migration, as res politica; the scrutiny of children's rights’s history, conceptions and limitations; the investigation of the link between ethics and politics in international political discourse;

In parallel with the academic activity, I participated as Researcher, Expert and Scientific Coordinator in several national and EU-funded projects for the protection and enhancement of migrants and refugees' rights.
In 2009 I was Scientific Coordination Assistant of the Line of intervention 1 of the National Programme for Unaccompanied Minors promoted by the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and implemented by ANCI (National Association of Local Authorities). From 2008 to 2013 I have collaborated with the NGO Defence for Children International, where I have served, from 2010 to 2013, as National and International Programme Coordinator.
Recently (2011-2013), I have been Researcher  and  Member  of  the  Scientific  Committee of the Project  AMITIE - Awareness on MIgration,developmenT and humanrIghts through local partnerships, promoted by the Municipality of Bologna and co-funded by the Europeaid Programme.

I have taught several undergraduate and graduate seminars and modules in Italian and foreign Universities, Summer School and academic training courses.  I was appointed as Adjunct Lecturer for the 2012/2013 academic year, to teach the course "History of Political Doctrines" (60 hrs), Undergraduate Degree on Political, Social and International Sciences, University of Bologna.
Over the years I have supervised more than 40 graduate and undergraduate dissertations.

I am member of:
a) the Associazione Italiana degli Storici delle Dottrine Politiche - AISDP (Italian Associationof Historians of Political Thought);
b) the Center for Constitutional Studies, Cultures, Rights, Democracies- Europe, Asia, Mediterranean, University of Bologna.
c) the Società Italiana delle Storiche - SIS (Italian Association of Female Historians).
d) the Child Migration Research Network, run by the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium at the University of Sussex.
e) the Editorial Committee of "Il Pensiero politico" Journal.