Dr Matteo Millan

Dr Matteo Millan is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Padova (Italy). Before coming to Padova, he obtained postdoctoral fellowships to carry out research in Oxford and Dublin. He has studied the Intelligence network of the Italian Resistance movement and the fascist squadrismo.

In 2015 he was awarded a major grant from the European Research Council and is now engaged in a broad research project dedicated to investigating “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War”.

He has published extensively on fascist squadrismo (“The Institutionalisation of Squadrismo”, Contemporary European History, 2013; Squadrismo e squadristi nella dittatura fascista, Rome 2014) and on pre-1914 forms of armed mobilization (“In Defence of Freedom”, European History Quarterly, 2016; “The Shadows of Social Fear”, Journal of Social History, 2016).