Ph.D. Laura Pozzi
Biography
Consultation
I graduated at the Department of Oriental Studies, University “Ca’ Foscari” of Venice in 2008. In 2014 I defended my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Steven A. Smith at the Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute (Florence). Between 2015 and 2018, I was a lecturer of Chinese history and culture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2018, I worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw in the framework of the Horizon 2020 project “ECHOES–European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities” . In 2021, I joined the Faculty of History as Assistant Professor at the Warsaw Centre for Global History.
My research focus on the entanglements between global history, colonialism, museums, and memory politics in the People’s Republic of China and in Southeast Asia. My new research project ‘China’s Multiple Pasts: Museums, Colonial History, and Decoloniality in Southeast Asia’ is supported by the National Science Centre, Poland grant no. 2024/53/B/HS3/01498.
Most important scholarly articles
Pozzi, Laura and Damian Mandzunowski. 2024. “Jiang Qing, The Iconic Anti-Icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-Mao People’s Republic of China.” positions: asia critique, Volume 32, no. 3.
Pozzi, Laura. 2023. “Going to the People: Visitors’ Responses to the New Exhibition of the Shanghai History Museum,” The Public Historian, Vol 45, no 1. https://online.ucpress.edu/tph/article/45/1/51/195211/Going-to-the-PeopleVisitors-Responses-to-the?searchresult=1
Pozzi, Laura. 2022. “China, the Maritime Silk Road, and the Memory of Colonialism in the Asia Region,” in Simon Lewis, Jeffrey K. Olick, Małgorzata Pakier, Joanna Wawrzyniak ed. Regions of Memory: Transnational Formations. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan: 136–160. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93705-8_6
Pozzi, Laura and Jan Ifversen. 2020.“European Colonial Heritage in Shanghai: Conflicting Practices,” Heritage and Society, Vol. 13, no. 1-2: 143–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2021.1909405
Pozzi, Laura. 2021. “Local Museum, National History: Curating Shanghai’s History in the Context of a Changing China (1994-2018),” International Journal of Heritage and Society, Vol. 27, no 4: 407–422. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1799060