Biography

Professor of History of Post-War European Cooperation and Integration

Federico Romero joined the History Department in 2010 as Chair in History of Post-War European Cooperation and Integration. He served as Head of Department (2012-15) and Dean of Research (2019-2021). Before joining EUI he taught at the London School of Economics, the College of Europe, the University of Bologna and the University of Firenze. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, Columbia University and the University of New Mexico.
A specialist on 20th Century international and transnational history, he researched various aspects of the Cold War and trans-Atlantic relations, particularly the Marshall Plan and post-war European reconstruction, migration and European integration, Italy’s place in Europe and the Atlantic world.
From 2015 to 2020 he directed the ERC Advanced Project “Looking West: the European Socialist regimes facing pan-European cooperation and the European Community (PANEUR1970S).

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Ponte Europa

Completed

• Decentering Eurocentrism
• Looking West: The European Socialist Regimes Facing Pan-European Cooperation and the European Community

Supervisees

• Giovanni Costenaro
• Laurens-Jan Danen
• Maria Sole Barbieri
• Thomas Soden

Recent research output

• ROMERO, Federico (2023), Europe beyond the Cold War, Contribution to book
• ROMERO, Federico (2020), American labour's cold war abroad : from deep freeze to detente, 1945-1970, Article
• ROMERO, Federico (2021), Socialism between détente and globalisation, Contribution to book
• ROMERO, Federico (2019), La reconstruccion del espacio sindical internacional después de la segunda guerra mundial : nacimiento y accion de la CIOSL en el contexto de la guerra fria, Contribution to book
• ROMANO, Angela; ROMERO, Federico (ed/s), (2021), European socialist regimes' fateful engagement with the West : national strategies in the long 1970s, Book
• ROMERO, Federico (2020), 1989 : trent’anni dopo, Article