Davide Lombardo is currently Global Lecturer in History, Metropolitan Studies and Liberal Studies at NYU Florence and also teaches Political Science at Kent State University Florence and a course on Race and Identity in Italy at CEA. He holds a doctorate in History and Civilization from the European University Institute (Fiesole, Italy) as well as a French (Grenoble II) and Italian (Pisa) degrees in Modern History. His research focuses on European History from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. In 2009, he was Visiting Research Fellow at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University, Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art, and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Huntington Library. In 2020 and 2021 he was Visiting Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Liberal Studies at NYU Shanghai. His latest work is an edited volume - with Marcella Simoni, Languages of Racism and Discrimination in Twentieth-Century Italy, Palgrave 2022.