Brief Biography

Stefano Poggi is an associate researcher in the “Dynastic Continuity in an Age of Crisis?” project, focusing on the Austria-Este branch of the Habsburg dynasty during the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. He earned his Ph.D. from the European University Institute of Florence in 2021 with a dissertation on the personal identification tools in Napoleonic Italy. Subsequently, he held a two-year position at the University of Padua, where he completed his first book, Cultures of Identification in Napoleonic Italy (Routledge, forthcoming).

Research interests

Research interests: Age of Revolutions, State-Building, Gender History
Period: 1789-1848
Area: Mediterranean and Central Europe

Selected publications

• Poggi, Stefano (2024, forthcoming). Cultures of Identification in Napoleonic Italy (c. 1800-1814) (London-New York, Routhledge).
• Poggi, Stefano (2022). “Una necessaria collaborazione. Il contributo del clero italiano allo stato civile napoleonico”, Rassegna Storica del Risorgimento, n. 109/1, pp. 38-56.
• Poggi, Stefano (2022). “Surveillance as a Culture of Vigilance: the Case of Napoleonic Italy”, Società e Storia, n. 177, pp. 569-581.
• Poggi, Stefano (2021). “Conflitti d’identità. Pratiche, gestione e controllo delle identità nell’Italia napoleonica”, Società e Storia, n. 172, pp. 287-320.