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Tommaso Piffer

Piffer-Ritratto

Tommaso Piffer

Storia contemporanea (M-STO/04)


  • Associate professor
  • Tel.: 0432 556132
  • Email: tommaso.piffer@uniud.it
  • Office: Palazzo Caiselli, second floor, room L2-18
  • Teachings: History of Europe in the Post-War Period; Contemporary History; Contemporary History Lab; Twentieth-Century European History

Tommaso Piffer

Storia contemporanea (M-STO/04)


  • Associate professor
  • Tel.: 0432 556132
  • Email: tommaso.piffer@uniud.it
  • Office: Palazzo Caiselli, second floor, room L2-18
  • Teachings: History of Europe in the Post-War Period; Contemporary History; Contemporary History Lab; Twentieth-Century European History
Piffer-Ritratto

Prof. Tommaso Piffer is an Associate Professor of Contemporary history at the University of Udine. Previously, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University, a post-doctoral fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and the Bodossakis Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Among his publications are an account of the relationship between the Allies and the Italian Resistance during World War II (Gli Alleati e la Resistenza Italiana, Il Mulino, 2010) and the collection of essays Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition (with Vladislav Zubok, CEU Press, 2017).

His current project investigates relations between the Big Three Allies and the European Resistance during the Second World War.

Publications

Totalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition. Essays in Memory of Victor Zaslavsky

Budapest 2017 (a cura di T. Piffer con V. Zubok; ed. it.: Bologna 2011)

‘Behind All This façade’. The Special Operations Executive in Greece in the Light of New Documents

Diplomacy & Statecraft 34 (2023) 651–672