Background and activities
Monica Miscali completed her PhD in history at the European University Institute in Florence in 2001 and she was a postdoctoral researcher in economic history at the University of Genève. Later she worked as a teaching fellow at the University of Bath (UK) were she taught Italian political history.
She has worked as associate professor at the University of Stavanger where she taught several courses in Norwegian history.
In the last couple of years she has been working as an associate professor in the Italian department (Department of Literature, Areas studies and European Languages) at the University of Oslo.
Monica Miscali has conducted research in the fields of social history, labour history, gender history and migration history.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
2017
- (2017) Migranti, venditori ambulanti o vagabondi? L´emigrazione italiana in Norvegia nell´Ottocento in Altreitalie. Altreitalie. vol. 54.
- (2017) The Transformation of Motherhood: From a Neglected Mother to The Mother of a Whole Nation. Romance Studies. vol. 35 (1).
- (2017) What happened in the North? Servants and rural workers in Norway. Mundo Agrario. vol. 18:e064 (39).
- (2017) What happened in the North? A general overview of the situation of servants and domestic rural workers in Norway. Mundo Agrario. vol. 18 (39).
- (2017) Zitelle e zitellacce. Prejudices and scorn in the perception of widows and single women in Italy in the XIX century. Revista de Historiografía. vol. 26.
- (2017) Zitelle o signorine. Restare sole nell´Ottocento, Women of the Mediterranean. Saggi Interdisciplinari a cura di Marco Marino e Giovanni Spani,. 2017. ISBN 9788860324139.
- (2017) Gli immigranti della vergogna: venditori ambulanti italiani in Norvegia. Edito, inedito, riedito.
2015
- (2015) Diventare capofamiglia. Vedove e donne sole nel Sud della Spagna e dell´Italia nel XIX secolo. Revista de Demografia Historica. vol. 33 (2).
2014
- (2014) La successione dei beni nella Sardegna nell’Ottocento, in Francisco Chacon Jimenez (ed.). 2014. ISBN 978-84-16038-45-9.
2010
- (2010) Gli spazi delle donne. Lavoro e società nella Sardegna dell’Ottocento in N. Valsangiacomo L. Lorenzetti (a cura di), Donne e lavoro. Prospettive per una storia delle montagne europe XVIII-XX secc. Edizioni Franco Angeli. 2010. ISBN 978-88-6032-413-9.
- (2010) Le partage de la terre: la diversité à l’échelle villageoise in Itinera, Société Suisse d’Histoire SSH. 2010. ISBN 978-3-7965-2660-2.
2008
- (2008) Famiglia, patrimonio e strategie di transmissione della propietà in Sardegna nell’Ottocento,. Nuevo mundo - mundos nuevos.
2007
- (2007) A ciascuno il suo. Eredità e successione dei beni in Sardegna nell’Ottocento. Rivista di Storia dell'agricoltura. vol. 47 (2).
2006
- (2006) I servi e la terra. Il lavoro servile nella Sardegna dell’Ottocento. Popolazione e storia. vol. 2.
- (2006) Proprietà e identità sociale nella Sardegna del primo Ottocento. 2006. ISBN 978-88-8467-383-1.
2005
- (2005) Los criados y la tierra en la Cerdeña del siglo XIX. Historia Agraria. vol. 34.
- (2005) Servir au féminin, servir au masculin: Maîtres et serviteurs dans une communauté de la Sardaigne (19eme siècle), Proceedings of the Servant Project. 2005. ISBN 2874560189.