Giovanni Costenaro
PhD candidate,
European University Institute
African business history, European Common Market, Business and Economic History, business integration, International Business, Industrialization; Mining and Metals; Futures Markets; International Business; Modern US, International Financial History; Monetary History; Energy History; political economy of mass consumption; Italy in the first economic globalization, International Trade, economic integration
Business Historians at Business Schools
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.
Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings