Giovanni Costenaro is a PhD candidate at the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence, where he is working on post-colonial Italy and Germany (provisional title of the thesis: ‘Eurafrica and the quest for natural resources: the resilience of empires in Italy and Germany, 1950-60). His main interests include History of European Integration, comparative European history, colonial, post-colonial and imperial history. For his PhD thesis he conducted research in several archives in Italy, France, Switzerland, and Germany, where he spent 6 months as Erasmus researcher at Humboldt University. Giovanni holds a bachelor in History from the University of Padua, a Master degree in social and cultural history from the University of Trento, Aix Marseille and Verona, and was visiting student at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem.