Lucy riall biography

Irish historian

Lucy Riall is an Irish historian.^[1] She was a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, and is currently a professor in the Department of History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in Florence.^[2]

Biography

Riall studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge.

Biography.

CV Born , PhD in History at the University of Cambridge; since Professor in History, Birkbeck University of London; since Editor.

Biography.

Lucy Riall is an Irish historian.

External Referee for appointment and promotions committees: Trinity College.

She was a lecturer in Modern European history at the University of Essex before moving to Birkbeck. Since 2004 she has been editor of the journal European History Quarterly.^[3]

Among her awards are a visiting professorship at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and a senior fellowship at the University of Freiburg's Institute of Advanced Study.

One of the leading experts on modern Italy, Riall has written on nineteenth-century state-formation and nationalism in Italy and Sicily. Several of her books treat the history of the Risorgimento; Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (2007) examined the popu