Daniele Toro

EDUCATION

Since 10/2017
PhD candidate
Bielefeld University · Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology
Research Unity History of Modern Societies
Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
Project: A “Dark” Entanglement: Transnational Fascist Networks Between Germany, Austria and Italy 1918–1934.
First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Vito F. Gironda (until 08/2021 Prof. Dr. Thomas Welskopp)
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sven Reichardt (Universität Konstanz)

04/2017 – 09/2017
Pre-Doctoral Fellow (“Start-up“ Program)
Bielefeld University · Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
Project: Transnational Radical Nationalist Networks between Germany and Italy 1918–1933: An Entangled History of Fascistization.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Welskopp

10/2013 – 02/2017
MA in Historical Science (Double Degree Program “BiBoG”)
Bielefeld University · Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology
MA Thesis: The “Stahlhelm, B.d.F.” and Italian Fascism. An Historical Network Analysis as Entangled History. (written in German)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Vito Francesco Gironda; Prof. Dr. Paolo Capuzzo

11/2012 – 03/2017
MA in Historical Science
University of Bologna · Department of History and Cultures (DISCI)
MA Thesis: The “Stahlhelm, B.d.F.” and Italian Fascism. An Historical Network Analysis as Entangled History. (written in German, abstract in Italian)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Paolo Capuzzo; Prof. Dr. Vito Francesco Gironda

10/2009 – 10/2012
BA in History
University of Bologna · Department of History and Cultures (DISCI)
BA Thesis: The Canadian Corps in the Italian Campaign in World War II. (written in Italian)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patrizia Dogliani

07/2009
Matura
Liceo Classico, Pescara (Italy)

Since 04/2020
Teaching Assistant
Bielefeld University · Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology

02/2022 – 03/2022
Short-term Research Assistant
University of Padua · Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA)
Project: Italian Fascism in Interwar Europe.
Primary Investigator: Prof. Dr. Giulia Albanese

Since 04/2017
Research Assistant
Mannheim University · Historical Institute
Projects:
(since 05/2021) Letmathe’s Local History.
(04/2017 – 04/2021) South Westfalian Chain Production Industry. 17th–20th c.
Primary Investigator: Prof. Dr. Hiram Kümper

06/2016 – 07/2016
Internship
German Historical Institute (DHI) Rome
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Martin Baumeister, PD Dr. Lutz Klinkhammer

10/2015 – 03/2017
Student Assistant
Mannheim University · Historical Institute
Projects:
10/2016 – 03/2017 South Westfalian Chain Production Industry. 17th–20th Cent.
10/2015 – 09/2016 Digitization of the Regesta of Haus Letmathe
Primary Investigator: Prof. Dr. Hiram Kümper

since 05/2019
PhD Research Fellowship
Gerda Henkel Foundation

02/2020 – 04/2020
Practice Project Fellowship
Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
Project: NS Forced Labor in Southern Westfalia 1939–1945.
Research stay at the Institute for Social Movements (ISB) · Ruhr University Bochum

04/2017 – 07/2017
Pre-doctoral Fellowship (“Start-up” program)
Bielefeld University · Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
Project: Transnational Radical Nationalist Networks between Germany and Italy 1918–1933: An Entangled History of Fascistization.

04/2015 – 09/2015
MA-Thesis Abroad Research Grant
University of Bologna · Faculty of Letters and Philosophy
Project: Italian Fascism and the “Stahlhelm, B.d.F.”. An historical network analysis as entangled history.
Research stay at Bielefeld University and Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde.

10/2013 – 09/2014
Erasmus Scholarship
University of Bologna · Department of History and Cultures
Studying stay at Bielefeld University

since 07/2022
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD)

since 04/2022
Forum Accademico Italiano (FAI) · Young Academy

since 08/2021
International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (ComFas)

since 04/2017
Società Italiana per la Storia Contemporanea dell’Area di Lingua Tedesca (SISCALT)

since 09/2020
Member of the Task Force Diversity and Antiracism, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, Bielefeld University

10/2019 – 09/2021
Doctoral Representative of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)

10/2014 – 09/2015
Founding member and coordinator of the Bologna Section of the International Students of History Association (ISHA)