Post-Doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Academic Division of Communication, History and Politics
PhD European University Institute, Italy
M.A. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
Office: Lowerre Academic Center, Office 7
Email: gennas@fus.edu
Giorgio Ennas received his PhD from the European University Institute of Fiesole (EUI) in 2021. He joined Franklin University Switzerland (Division of Communication, History and Politics) in November 2021 and currently holds the position of Post-Doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor.
His primary research interests concern the relationship of cultural and global history with the history of knowledge, diplomacy, medicine, and migrations during the “long” 19th century and the early 20th century. His research focuses mainly on the cultural aspects of knowledge exchanges, diplomatic, and personal relations between members of the diplomatic corps, and migrations as well as medical practices. In his research, he makes use of the tools provided by cultural and global history, to which he combines a comparative approach with sources from European and Turkish archives.
Giorgio Ennas has successfully published in important academic journals and is currently Principal Investigator (PI) in a two-years project entitled ‘Pandemics and Borders. Pandemics as Driver towards Modern Borders and International Collaboration in 19th century Mediterranean and South Eastern European Periphery’ funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). In November 2023, he begins a new one-year project entitled ‘The Profession of Consul. Cesare Durando and the Professionalisation of the Consular Career of the Historic Right, 1863-1876’ funded by the Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici (GCSS) of Rome. He also actively participates in international professional associations and conferences.
Research interests:
Professor Ennas’ work focuses on cultural, sociological, and anthropological aspects of diplomatic and international relations, the role of education in diplomacy, and the rise of the diplomatic elitist society of the 19th century through imperial actors. Recently, he began to deal with historical dynamics of cultural exchanges between migrations and societies in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Publications:
Collection of published documents:
‘Reports of Cesare Durando Italian Vice-Consul in Sarajevo (1863-1867). “Accaparrarne gli animi per il nostro interesse”’, The ISIS Press, Istanbul, 2020.
Articles:
‘‘Dans l’intérêt de la Santé Publique de l’Empire’. The Ottoman Consuls during the Cholera Epidemic of 1867’, in Euras Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Istanbul, 2022, pp. 225-244.
‘Negotiating Protection. The Inclusion of Ottoman-Swiss Relations in the Diplomatic Germansphere during the First World War’, edited by E. Biçer-Deveci and U. Brandenburg, The Ottoman Empire and the ‘Germansphere’ in the Age of Imperialism, Comparativ, 2022, pp. 349-363.
‘Connecting the two seas. Italian and Ottoman diplomacies in the Suez-Red Sea area’, in Italy and the Suez Canal. A Mediterranean history, from the mid-Nineteenth century to the Cold War, edited by B. Curli, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 247-260.
‘Non una di queste proposte fu messa in esecuzione.’ Sarajevo and the cholera epidemic of 1866’, in Il filo sottile tra stato di emergenza, limitazione delle libertà e consenso, edited by I. Fusco and G. Sabatini, RiMe, Rivista dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, 2021, pp. 275-293.
‘Confine sanitario o nazionale? L’influenza delle epidemie nell’emergere dei nazionalismi balcanici’, in Malattie e società. Esperienze, pratiche, rappresentazioni, edited by F. Cutolo and C. Bonelli, Farestoria, Rivista dell’Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea, 2021, pp. 33-50.
‘The Birth of the Ottoman Colonial Space. The Libyan Case (1835-1918)’, Proposte e Ricerche n. 77. Economia e società nella storia dell’Italia centrale. Anno XXXIX – estate/autunno 2016, Macerata EUM, edizioni Università di Macerata, pp. 43-65.