Sara Delmedico (University of Bologna), Research Grant for a project on Subverting the order. Representing Women Emigrants in Court Records, the Press and Cinema (Italy, 1900).

Sara Delmedico (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. The Ragusa Foundation grant supports her book-project, in collaboration with Loreta Gandolfi, on Subverting the order. Representing Women Emigrants in Court Records, the Press and Cinema (Italy, 1900). Her scholarly interests cover women’s history with a particular focus on the law and the Italian peninsula. In this regard, she has published several articles and a monograph entitled Opposing Patriarchy. Women and the Law in Action in Pre-Unification Italy (1815-1865) (London: IMLR book series, 2021). She is editor-in-chief of the history journal Chronica Mundi.