Marco Soresina is Full professor of Contemporary history, coordinator of the PhD in Historical Studies. His field research is mainly modern-contemporary history (from the Eighteenth to Twenty-first century), especially in polity, administration, bureaucracy, economics, welfare, statistics, labour and cultural history. Some of his most recent publications are the following: Italy Before Italy: Institutions, Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States, 1815-1860, Routledge, 2018; ‘Testimonies to the History of Crime: The Italian Police Memoir, 1861-2014’, in Crime, Histoire & Sociétés, 2021, 25/1; ‘Milan riots of 1853: history and remembrance’, in Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2023, 28/1.