Angela Villani

Professor of International History at the University of Messina

Angela Villani is Professor of International History at the University of Messina, where she has been teaching International History and the History of International Organizations. In 2017, she was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York, carrying on a research on UN contribution to the shaping of a Global Citizenship. She is currently Principal Investigator of the research project “Planning for Food Security in the 1960s: FAO and the Freedom from Hunger Campaign in Africa” (in partnership with the University of Perugia and the University of Bologna, funded by the Italian Ministry of Universities and the European Commission). Her research interests include the history of international organizations (UN system and EEC/EU), the history of international development cooperation, and the History of Italian foreign policy in the XXth century. Among her publications: (with L. Tosone and N. Mocci, eds.) Foreign Aid in Asia: Traditional and “New” Donors in a Changing Development Landscape, Asia Maior, Special Issue, 1/2018; (with Nicholas Ferns, ed.) Yearbook for the History of Global Development, Issue 3: International Organizations and Global Development, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2024.