Sonia Castro Mallamaci

After graduating in Literature and Philosophy with a specialisation in History from the University of Pavia, he completed a PhD in ‘Institutions, Ideas and Political Movements in Contemporary Europe’ at the same university. Alongside his research activities, conducted as part of post-doctoral fellowships and research grants and dedicated to the study of migratory, cultural, economic and political flows between Italy and Switzerland, he gained teaching experience in the field of history and history teaching in secondary schools and at university level, at the University of Pavia, the Department of Education and Learning (DFA) at SUPSI (SUPSI teaching qualification) and the University of Italian Switzerland (USI). From 2017 to 2025, she was responsible for the teaching diploma for secondary schools. Since 2020, she has been an adjunct professor and, since 2024, an associate professor in history teaching at the DFA.

She has conducted research in collaboration with the University of Pavia and has received individual research grants from the Canton of Ticino, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the University of Pavia. She has also collaborated as a researcher on research projects of national interest (PRIN) at the Universities of Pavia, Bologna and Siena and as an associate researcher at the Institute of Alpine History at the University of Lugano (USI). In collaboration with the city of Lugano, the Spitzer Foundation, USI and RSI, she was the promoter, coordinator and researcher for the DFA (with Pietro Montorfani) of the project “Le vite dei giusti” (The Lives of the Righteous) (see www.levitedeigiusti.ch).

With the Teacher Training Universities of Lucerne and the Canton of Vaud, she was co-director of the project funded by the Federal Office of Justice assistenza-coercizione.ch, an educational platform on the subject of coercive measures for welfare purposes.

Areas of research:

-history of anti-fascism in Switzerland

-history of student and cultural exchanges between Switzerland and Italy in the contemporary era

-history of Italian emigration to Switzerland

-history teaching

-citizenship and democracy education