Michele Sollai
@michelesollai.bsky.social
SNSF Postdoc at UZH. Historian | Agrarian development | Green Revolution | Drought | Wheat. Following seeds.
🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉
My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s) | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s)
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May 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉
My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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PhD Opportunity in Global History
Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome.
More details:
Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome.
More details:
PhD Position in Global History
jobs.ethz.ch
April 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
PhD Opportunity in Global History
Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome.
More details:
Join our team at ETH Zurich for the SNSF-funded project Engineering Empire. 4 years, fully funded. Applicants from marginalized groups are particularly welcome.
More details:
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World History Association members: look for a membership-wide vote on a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza later today. Add to the pressure on the AHA's leadership. members.thewha.org/general/cust...
Resolution Opposing Scholasticide in Gaza - World History Association
On January 30, 2025, the World History Association Officers and Council considered and affirmed a Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza (full text below). The resolution responds to the dire situation facing the teaching, learning, and documentation of history in Gaza; the veto of a similar resolution by the American Historical Association Council in January 2025, and the mission of the World History Association to promote activities which will increase historical awareness, understanding among and between peoples and global consciousness. Strictly following WHA procedure, we now submit the resolution to a vote of the entire membership of the Association. If approved by a majority of the members voting, the resolution is affirmed as a measure of the WHA. Current members of the WHA received an email with login instructions to participate in the vote via ElectionRunner, the same secure election software that we use for our annual officer elections. The election will be open from February 18 - 25, 2025.
members.thewha.org
February 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
World History Association members: look for a membership-wide vote on a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza later today. Add to the pressure on the AHA's leadership. members.thewha.org/general/cust...
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#envhum folks!
The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!
Deadline: 31 March 2025
More information ⤵
environmentalhumanities.org
The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!
Deadline: 31 March 2025
More information ⤵
environmentalhumanities.org
Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
environmentalhumanities.org
February 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
#envhum folks!
The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!
Deadline: 31 March 2025
More information ⤵
environmentalhumanities.org
The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!
Deadline: 31 March 2025
More information ⤵
environmentalhumanities.org
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Publication Day!
My book is officially out with @uncpress.bsky.social. A case study of conservation from the Progressive Era to the age of sustainability, it shows how agricultural conservation aided the rise of industrial ag -- with similar results for land & people.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
My book is officially out with @uncpress.bsky.social. A case study of conservation from the Progressive Era to the age of sustainability, it shows how agricultural conservation aided the rise of industrial ag -- with similar results for land & people.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
The State of Conservation | Joshua Nygren | University of North Carolina Press
In the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day sustainability. Mergin...
uncpress.org
January 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Publication Day!
My book is officially out with @uncpress.bsky.social. A case study of conservation from the Progressive Era to the age of sustainability, it shows how agricultural conservation aided the rise of industrial ag -- with similar results for land & people.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
My book is officially out with @uncpress.bsky.social. A case study of conservation from the Progressive Era to the age of sustainability, it shows how agricultural conservation aided the rise of industrial ag -- with similar results for land & people.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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20th c. international and global historians: If you will be at the AHA and have a book project to pitch for our series, our sponsoring editor @dgershenowitz.bsky.social will be there and is eager to set up meetings! Her email address is on our series webpage:
uncpress.org/series/inter...
uncpress.org/series/inter...
December 12, 2024 at 7:52 PM
20th c. international and global historians: If you will be at the AHA and have a book project to pitch for our series, our sponsoring editor @dgershenowitz.bsky.social will be there and is eager to set up meetings! Her email address is on our series webpage:
uncpress.org/series/inter...
uncpress.org/series/inter...
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RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).
December 10, 2024 at 12:42 PM
RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).
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If you are in/near Paris, please join us at Sciences Po for a wide-ranging #envhist conversation with myself, Sverker Sorlin, Antoine Acker & @brdemuth.bsky.social on planetary history, global history and national history,
Thursday Dec 12 from 3pm to 5:30 pm, 1 place St Thomas.
More details here:
Thursday Dec 12 from 3pm to 5:30 pm, 1 place St Thomas.
More details here:
Évènements | Sciences Po | CiviCrm
www.sciencespo.fr
December 10, 2024 at 12:20 PM
If you are in/near Paris, please join us at Sciences Po for a wide-ranging #envhist conversation with myself, Sverker Sorlin, Antoine Acker & @brdemuth.bsky.social on planetary history, global history and national history,
Thursday Dec 12 from 3pm to 5:30 pm, 1 place St Thomas.
More details here:
Thursday Dec 12 from 3pm to 5:30 pm, 1 place St Thomas.
More details here:
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My project, DEVHIST, will focus on how aid workers and Global South communities renegotiated development projects at the point of implementation, to better understand the material outcomes of development aid. I’m so thrilled this was funded and can’t wait to get started
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/three-s...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/three-s...
Three SSPP researchers win prestigious EU grants
£4.5m of ERC grants will go to researchers in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy
www.kcl.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 7:08 PM
My project, DEVHIST, will focus on how aid workers and Global South communities renegotiated development projects at the point of implementation, to better understand the material outcomes of development aid. I’m so thrilled this was funded and can’t wait to get started
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/three-s...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/three-s...
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My colleague Diana Méndez Rojas and I are preparing an Oxford Bibliography on transnational perspectives on the Green Revolution, broadly conceived. If you've written on this topic or know of important works we should include, we'd love to hear your suggestions! 🌽🌎 #envhist #aghist #histsci
November 20, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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This article explores the #transimperial politics and meanings of Fascist material legacies in between #Italy and #Ethiopia. Connecting troubled restitutions and international aid, it examines (post)colonial reworkings of imperial objects and relations, here in OA! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
„Italia si, Italia no“. Materialità transimperiali e soggetti (post)coloniali tra Italia ed Etiopia (1956–1974)
Article „Italia si, Italia no“. Materialità transimperiali e soggetti (post)coloniali tra Italia ed Etiopia (1956–1974) was published on November 30, 2024 in the journal Quellen und Forschungen aus it...
www.degruyter.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:13 AM
This article explores the #transimperial politics and meanings of Fascist material legacies in between #Italy and #Ethiopia. Connecting troubled restitutions and international aid, it examines (post)colonial reworkings of imperial objects and relations, here in OA! www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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I need to pick your brains #hist community!
I am no food historian, but next term I am going to teach an undergraduate course on #foodhistory --- what readings should I and my students not miss out on?
Grateful for any reading suggestions incl. self-promotion (articles preferred)!
I am no food historian, but next term I am going to teach an undergraduate course on #foodhistory --- what readings should I and my students not miss out on?
Grateful for any reading suggestions incl. self-promotion (articles preferred)!
November 21, 2024 at 7:01 AM
I need to pick your brains #hist community!
I am no food historian, but next term I am going to teach an undergraduate course on #foodhistory --- what readings should I and my students not miss out on?
Grateful for any reading suggestions incl. self-promotion (articles preferred)!
I am no food historian, but next term I am going to teach an undergraduate course on #foodhistory --- what readings should I and my students not miss out on?
Grateful for any reading suggestions incl. self-promotion (articles preferred)!
My colleague Diana Méndez Rojas and I are preparing an Oxford Bibliography on transnational perspectives on the Green Revolution, broadly conceived. If you've written on this topic or know of important works we should include, we'd love to hear your suggestions! 🌽🌎 #envhist #aghist #histsci
November 20, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Bloomsbury just published Dam Internationalism: Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century. The volume sheds new light on the globalization of technology and international power struggles in the twentieth century through the perspective dams.
September 8, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Bloomsbury just published Dam Internationalism: Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century. The volume sheds new light on the globalization of technology and international power struggles in the twentieth century through the perspective dams.
Did not expect to stumble on the actual seeds of the Green Revolution at the archives in Australia😁
January 24, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Did not expect to stumble on the actual seeds of the Green Revolution at the archives in Australia😁
Glad to share my contribution to the Review Forum of Natalie Koch's brilliant book "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (2022), just published in Political Geography. authors.elsevier.com/c/1i88m3Qu6u...
November 27, 2023 at 8:06 AM
Glad to share my contribution to the Review Forum of Natalie Koch's brilliant book "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia" (2022), just published in Political Geography. authors.elsevier.com/c/1i88m3Qu6u...
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Michele also has a great article on Italy's wheat revolution that builds on my book research. Really interesting and it's open access, check it out! "The fascist Green Revolution" #histsci #envhist
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Happy to share my review of Marci Baranski's @ecomarci.bsky.social great book "The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution", just published in Environmental History 28 (4). doi.org/10.1086/726417
November 1, 2023 at 3:11 PM
Michele also has a great article on Italy's wheat revolution that builds on my book research. Really interesting and it's open access, check it out! "The fascist Green Revolution" #histsci #envhist
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Happy to share my review of Marci Baranski's @ecomarci.bsky.social great book "The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution", just published in Environmental History 28 (4). doi.org/10.1086/726417
November 1, 2023 at 11:28 AM
Happy to share my review of Marci Baranski's @ecomarci.bsky.social great book "The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution", just published in Environmental History 28 (4). doi.org/10.1086/726417
🔍If anyone knows a research assistant for hire in the DC area (NARA College Park) let me know!
October 26, 2023 at 9:10 AM
🔍If anyone knows a research assistant for hire in the DC area (NARA College Park) let me know!
My article "How to Feed an Empire? Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming, and Wheat Autarky in Italian-Occupied Ethiopia" is now Open Access for 3 months. Many thanks to the Society for Italian Historical Studies and to Duke UP. Feel free to download and share widely!!
doi.org/10.1215/0002...
doi.org/10.1215/0002...
October 19, 2023 at 11:03 AM
My article "How to Feed an Empire? Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming, and Wheat Autarky in Italian-Occupied Ethiopia" is now Open Access for 3 months. Many thanks to the Society for Italian Historical Studies and to Duke UP. Feel free to download and share widely!!
doi.org/10.1215/0002...
doi.org/10.1215/0002...
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New book review by Emily M Hill on H-Environment!
"Baranski’s admirable multidisciplinary effort to 'dismantle the narrative of wide adaptation' therefore deserves a wide readership"
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
#envhist #envhum 📗🗃️
"Baranski’s admirable multidisciplinary effort to 'dismantle the narrative of wide adaptation' therefore deserves a wide readership"
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
#envhist #envhum 📗🗃️
www.h-net.org
October 13, 2023 at 9:46 PM
New book review by Emily M Hill on H-Environment!
"Baranski’s admirable multidisciplinary effort to 'dismantle the narrative of wide adaptation' therefore deserves a wide readership"
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
#envhist #envhum 📗🗃️
"Baranski’s admirable multidisciplinary effort to 'dismantle the narrative of wide adaptation' therefore deserves a wide readership"
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
#envhist #envhum 📗🗃️
🎉Happy news! 🎉I've received the Article Prize for Modern Italian History, awarded by the Society for Italian Historical Studies (SIHS) to my article "How to Feed an Empire? Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming, and Wheat Autarky in Italian-Occupied Ethiopia" published in Agricultural History (2022)
October 13, 2023 at 10:31 AM
🎉Happy news! 🎉I've received the Article Prize for Modern Italian History, awarded by the Society for Italian Historical Studies (SIHS) to my article "How to Feed an Empire? Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming, and Wheat Autarky in Italian-Occupied Ethiopia" published in Agricultural History (2022)