Research groups

Research groups NAVLAB/University of Genoa

Group members of the NAVLAB/University of Genoa

Prof. Luca Lo Basso (Research Leader of NAVLAB/University of Genoa Group)

lucalobasso@gmail.com

Luca Lo Basso, is associate professor of Early Modern History at the University of Genoa, director of Laboratorio di storia marittima e navale (NavLab) and a Senate Member at the University of Genoa.

He is a specialist in maritime history, with particular attention dedicated to the social and economic aspects linked to the maritime work in the Mediterranean Sea in the early modern period. He took part in many international research projects, in some of them also as unity responsible: FIRB Frontiere mediterranee e l’ERC Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s1920s. He is the author of several monographies, among which the latest one is Gente di bordo. La vita quotidiana dei marittimi genovesi nel XVIII secolo, published by Carocci in 2016.

Prof. Paolo Calcagno (Senior Researcher)

Paolo.Calcagno@unige.it

Paolo Calcagno was born in 1978. PhD researcher at the University of Verona in 2010, he held a grant at the University of Genoa from 2010 to 2012, where he is currently a researcher and professor of the courses “Elements and sources of early modern history” and “History of the nearby Italian states”.

His fields of research are currently focused on the Mediterranean area and the early modern period, with particular attention dedicated to social and economic history. Among his most popular publications: «La puerta a la mar”. Il Marchesato del Finale nel sistema imperiale spagnolo (1571-1713), Roma, Viella, 2011; Savona, porto di Piemonte. L’economia della città e del suo territorio dal Quattrocento alla Grande Guerra, Novi Ligure, Città del silenzio, 2013; he has been the curator of the volumes La quotidiana emergenza. I molteplici impieghi delle istituzioni sanitarie nel Mediterraneo moderno, Palermo, New Digital Press 2017 e Per vie illegali. Fonti per lo studio dei fenomeni illeciti nel Mediterraneo dell’età moderna (secoli XVI-XVIII), Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino Editore, 2017. He had previously taken part in the Italian projects PRIN and FIRB, and he is now a member of the project ERC SeaLiT «Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s» (responsible authority: Institute for Mediterranean Studies di Rethymno). He is a member of the doctoral school in «Studio e valorizzazione del patrimonio storico, artistico-architettonico e ambientale» at the University of Genoa. He is also part of Red Columnaria, an international network on the research of Iberian monarchy frontiers, as part of the Mediterranean Maritime Borders section (16th and 21st century). He is a member of GIS (groupement d’intérêt scientifique) d’Histoire & Sciences de la mer e del comité científico y editorial of the Archivo de la Frontera. He is a local referent, on behalf of the University of Genoa, for the studies centres CISPAI (storia delle paste alimentari in Italia) e CEPOC (Le polizie e il controllo del territorio). He codirects, together with professor Luca Lo basso, the editorial collection “Maritime historical studies” (New Digital Press).

Dr. Andrea Zappia (Post Doctoral Researcher)

andreazappia1987@gmail.com

Andrea Zappia (Genoa, 1987) is temporary research fellow at DAFIST (Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia e Storia), University of Genoa, and member of NavLab (Laboratorio di storia marittima e navale) since 2014.

In 2016 he’s among the founders and coordinators of the SISLav (Società Italiana di Storia del Lavoro) study group on free and unfree labour. In 2017 obtain PhD title at University of Genoa with a thesis on the ransoming of slaves in Eighteenth century Mediterranean. Since march 2018 is teaching assistant in Early Modern History at University of Genoa. Within SeaLiT project, he focuses on a specific mutualistic institution of Kingdom of Italy, the Cassa per gli invalidi della Marina di Genova, trying to read the trasformation in maritime labour in the second part of nineteenth century through a particular perspective.

Leonardo Scavino (PhD Student)

leonardo.scavino@yahoo.it

Leonardo Scavino (Genoa, 1993) is a PhD candidate in the Department of History, Philosophy and Antiquities (DAFIST) at the University of Genoa, and a member of NavLab, coordinated by Prof. Lo Basso, since January 2017.

His main research interests involve the Mediterranean maritime history, and, particularly, the economic and social relations between Western and Eastern Mediterranean (including the Black Sea). Within SeaLiT project, he focuses on a specific seafaring community located in the Ligurian area, Camogli, and he studies its maritime, economic and social evolution from 1850s to 1920. He holds a Master's degree in Historical Sciences (University of Genoa, 2017) and a Bachelor degree in History (University of Genoa, 2014).