Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)
- Sociability and military culture in Imperial Germany: local stories and global entanglements
- Italian colonialism in one family: two biographies
- Citizenship policy in the German and Italian colonial empires: ideologies, practices, comparisons
Frühere Position(en)
Autumn - Winter 2022/23
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), Universitiy of Rijeka
September - November 2022
Grant holder, German Historical Institute Paris
March - June 2022
Grant holder, German Historical Institute Warsaw
February 2019 - January 2022
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Padua (ERC-Project "PREWArAs – The Dark side of the Belle Epoque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War")
December 2021 - January 2022
Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin
June 2018 – June 2021
Honorary fellow ("cultore della materia") at University of Pavia, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Prof. Massimo Zaccaria (African history)
2020, September - October
Visiting Scholar, Bielefeld University, Department of History, Bielefeld
2019, Januar
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main
2018, September – December
Remarque Visiting Fellow, Remarque Institute, New York University, New York City
2017, November – 2018, January
Associate Researcher on the research project “Per una storia delle vittime civili di guerra. La sottrazione tedesca di risorse italiane nel contesto dell'occpuazione e le sue vittime dirette ed indirette”, Università di Siena (Prof. Nicola Labanca), Siena
2016, April – December
Visiting Scholar at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, Asien-Afrika Institut at Hamburg University, Hamburg
2015, January – September
Doctoral Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz
2014, January - February
Doctoral Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Rome
2012, November
Guest Researcher at COSTECH, Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (research at Tanzania National Archives, Dar es Salaam and University of Dar es Salaam Library)
2012, September – October
Guest Researcher at RDC - Research and Documentation Center, Asmara, Eritrea (research in the Archives of the High Court, Asmara; Archives of the Municipality, Asmara and Pavoni Center Library, Asmara)
2011, January – April
Doctoral Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Rome
Monographien (und Dissertation)
"Una cultura delle armi. Identità maschile e società di tiro nell’Impero Tedesco (1871–1914)" Rome: Carocci, 2024, 212 S.
"Staatsangehörigkeit und Rassismus. Rechtsdiskurse und Verwaltungspraxis in den Kolonien Eritrea und Deutsch-Ostafrika (1882-1919)", (Global Perspectives on Legal History, 19) Frankfurt am Main, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, 2021, 302 S.
Reviewed on:
- Africa. N.S. V/1 (2023), (Roberta Pergher), pp. 105-110
(https://www.viella.it/download/7283/1f0345a4f245/africa-1-2023-recensioni.pdf)
- Passato e Presente, XLI (2023), 118 (Amerigo Caruso), pp. 190–192 (https://www.francoangeli.it/rivista/getArticoloFree/72515/En )
- H-Soz-Kult, 12/08/2022 (Markus Wurzer) https://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/reb-116821?title=n-camilleri-staatsangehoerigkeit-und-rassismus
- Ethnorêma. Lingue, popoli e culture, Anno XVIII, N. 18 (2022), 112–115 (Kerstin Volker-Saad) https://www.ethnorema.it/wp-content/uploads/N18-2022.pdf
Artikel
- Article: "Struggles for Belonging. Una storia della cittadinanza nell’Europa del XX secolo" in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900 (Early Access), DOI: 10.1409/113625
- Article: "Le cittadinanze nelle colonie in età contemporanea" in: Il mestiere di storico XIV, 2022 (forthcoming)
- Article: "Citizens, Subjects, Enemies. The First World War and Citizenship Policies in the Italian Colonies" in: European History Quarterly 54, 1 (2024), 149-169
- Article: "Gunshots, Sociability and Community Defense. Shooting Associations in Imperial Germany and its Colonies" in: Journal of Modern European History, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2022), 236-257 (- the article has been awarded the prize of the SISCALT - Italian Society for the Story of Modern History in the German Speaking Countries for the best essay published in 2020 – 2022)
- Book chapter: “How a Colonial Subject became an Italian Citizen. Life and Naturalization of Sengal Workneh between Colonial Eritrea and Italy (1880-1929)", in: Marcella Simoni and Davide Lombardo (eds.), Languages of Discrimination and Racism in Twentieth-Century Italy. History, Legacies and Practices, New York, Palgrave Macmillan (2022), 27-46
- Article: "Le leggi sulla cittadinanza italiana e tedesca (1912–1913). Un confronto postcoloniale", in: Le Carte e la Storia, 2 (2022), 75-88
- Article: "Queering Italian Colonialism: Mapping a Blind Spot", in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900, 3 (2022), 477-487 (with Valentina Fusari)
- Article: "Tra scienza e amministrazione. Carlo Conti Rossini durante e dopo il colonialismo italiano" in: Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 3^ Serie, Vol. 6 (2022), 195-232 (with Valentina Fusari)
- Article review: “Storia quotidiana della violenza coloniale. Camilleri legge Muschalek.” [Article review of: Marie Muschalek, Violence as Usuale. Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2019] in: Storica. Rivista quadrimestrale 77 (2020), 195-203
- Article: "Colonial Subjects and Others: Racism and Inequality during Italian Rule in the Horn of Africa" in: Northeast African Studies Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2020), 27-58 (—> the article has been awarded the Article Prize 2021 of the SISSCO - Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History
https://www.sissco.it/articoli/premi-sissco-2021/ )
- Article: "From Subjecthood to Citizenship in the Horn of Africa: Introduction to the Special Issue” in: Northeast African Studies Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2020), v-xxii (with Alexander Meckelburg)
- Book chapter: “Oltre i confini della cittadinanza. Appartenenza ed esclusione nell'impero coloniale italiano e tedesco“ in: Marcella Aglietti (ed.), Finis civitatis. Le frontiere della cittadinanza, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura: Rome 2019, 145-160
- Article review: "Città ed emozioni. Camilleri legge Prestel" [Joseph Ben Prestel, Emotional Cities. Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017], in: Storica. Rivista quadrimestrale 70, anno XXIV, (2018), 178-186
- Article: “La cittadinanza negata. Lo stato giuridico degli abitanti della Colonia Eritrea sotto il dominio italiano (1882–1941)” in: Altreitalie. Rivista internazionale di studi sulle migrazioni italiane nel mondo, n. 57 (2018), 52-68
- Article: “German and Italian Colonialism. Comparative and Transnational Perspectives”, in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900 1 (2018), 99-124 (edited with Ulrike Schaper and Massimo Zaccaria; with contributions by Nicola Camilleri, Dominik Nagl, Massimo Zaccaria, Michael Pesek, Nicola Labanca and Patrick Bernhard)
- Article: “Citizenship and Colonialism. The German and the Italian Case” in: “German and Italian Colonialism. Comparative and Transnational Perspectives”, in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900 1 (2018), 101-104 (edited by Nicola Camilleri, Ulrike Schaper and Massimo Zaccaria)
- Article: “Costruire il dominio coloniale. La conquista dell´Africa orientale tedesca e la politica della cittadinanza”, in: Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900 2 (2016), 233-258
- Book chapter: “Il discorso sulla cittadinanza coloniale in Italia e Germania”, in: Gianni Dore, Chiara Giorgi, Antonio M. Morone, Massimo Zaccaria (ed.), Governare l’Oltremare. Istituzioni, funzionari e società nel colonialismo italiano, Carocci: Rome 2013, 19-30
- Book review: Elisa Heinrich, Intim und respektabel. Homosexualität und Freundinnenschaft in der deutschen Frauenbewegung um 1900, Göttingen, V&R unipress, 2022, in: Ricerche di storia politica 2 (2024)
- Book review of: Antonin Dubois, Organiser les étudiants. Socio-histoire d’un groupe social (Allemagne et France, 1880-1914), Vulaines-sur-Seine, Éditions du Croquant, 2021, in: Francia-Recensio 2023/4, 19.–21. Jahrhundert – Histoire contemporaine, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2023.4.101581
- Book review of: Florian Wagner, Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, in: ARO, VI, 2023, 2, URL https://aro-isig.fbk.eu/issues/2023/2/colonial-internationalism-and-the-governmentality-of-empire-18931982-nicola-camilleri/
- Book review of: Daniel Hedinger, Die Achse. Berlin – Rom – Tokio, Munich, C. H. Beck, 2021, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists 13.01.2023 http://www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationreview/id/reb-114218
- Book review of: Shiferaw Bekele, Uoldelul Chelati Dirar, Alessandro Volterra, Massimo Zaccaria (eds.), The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924), Addis Ababa: Centre français des études éthiopiennes, 2019, in: Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 25 (2022), 264-266
- Book review of: Gianni Dore, Capi locali e colonialismo in Eritrea. Biografie di un potere subordinato (1937–1941), Rome: Viella, 2021 in: in: Northeast African Studies Vol. 22, n. 2 (2022), 175-178
- Book review of: Annalisa Urbano and Antonio Varsori, Mogadiscio 1948. Un eccidio di italiani fra decolonizzazione e guerra fredda, Bologna: il Mulino, 2019, in: Annali.Recensioni.Online (ARO) IV, 2021, 2, URL https://aro-isig.fbk.eu/issues/2021/2/mogadiscio-1948-un-eccidio-di-italiani-fra-decolonizzazione-e-guerra-fredda-nicola-camilleri/
- Book review of: Mostafa Minawi, The Ottoman Scramble for Africa. Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2016, in: Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 23 (2020), 295-297
- Book review of: Simone Brioni and Shimelis Bonsa Gulema, (ed.), The Horn of Africa and Italy. Colonial, Postcolonial and Transnational Encounters, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018, in: Modern Italy 25, 4 (2020), 496-498
- Book review of: Neelam Srivastava, Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930–1970, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, in: Northeast African Studies 19, 2 (2019), 125-128
- Book review of: Andrea Giardina (ed.), Storia mondiale dell’Italia, con la collaborazione di Emmanuel Betta, Maria Pia Donato, Amedeo Feniello, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2017, in: H-Soz-Kult 16.06.2020 https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-28685
- Exhibition review: Europa und das Meer. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin 13 June 2018 – 06 January 2019, in: Il mestiere di storico, IX, 1 (2019), 101-102
- Book review: Irma Taddia, Etiopia 1800-1900. Le strategie di potere tra l'Africa e l'Italia, Milano, FrancoAngeli 2013 in: Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 21 (2018), 255-257
- Book review: Wolbert G. C. Smidt / Sophia Thubauville (ed.), Cultural Research in Northeastern Africa. German Histories and Stories. Extra issue of ITYOP̣IS, Frankfurt am Main: Frobenius Institut, Addis Ababa: Goethe Institut, Mekelle: Mekelle University, 2015, in: Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 21 (2018), 262-264
- Book review: Vera Simone Bader: Moderne in Afrika. Asmara – Die Konstruktion einer italienischen Kolonialstadt 1889–1941, Berlin 2016, in: H-Soz-Kult, 12.12.2018 http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-29757
- Book review: Ulrich Braukämper, Afrika 1914-1918. Antikolonialer Widerstand jenseits der Weltkriegsfronten, Berlin 2015, in: Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 20 (2017), 327-329
- Exhibition review: Deutscher Kolonialismus. Fragmente seiner Geschichte und seiner Gegenwart. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin 14 October 2016 – 14 maggio 2017, in: Il mestiere di storico IX/1 (2017), 95-96
- Book review: Till Manning, Die Italiengeneration. Stilbildung durch Massentourismus in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren, Göttingen 2011, in: WerkstattGeschichte 63 (2013), 144-145
Herausgeberschaften und Editionen
- Special Issue, “From Subjecthood to Citizenship in the Horn of Africa", edited by Nicola Camilleri & Alexander Meckelburg, Northeast African Studies Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2020)
- Translation into Italian of the book: Sebastian Conrad, Storia globale. Un'introduzione, with an introduction by Marco Meriggi, Carocci: Rome 2015, 210 pp (German edition: Globalgeschichte. Eine Einführung, C. H. Beck: Munich 2013)