DrMarco Duranti

Senior Lecturer – Modern European and International History

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • European politics, ideas, and culture from circa 1900 to the present

 

  • The history of human rights, especially the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the UN human rights system

 

  • The role of decolonisation in the evolution of international human rights systems

 

  • The history of conservatism, fascism, and populist right-wing movements

 

  • Digital history, especially the application of Text and Data Mining (TDM) tools to historical sources.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Human Rights and Corporal Punishment: Australia and Britain, 1970-2000
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2027
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    FASS COVID Kick Start Fund 2022
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duranti M
  • GRANT
    Developing Digital Literacy in Human Rights History
    DVC Education1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Duranti M,
    • Plumbe R,
    • Sun C
  • GRANT
    Human Rights and Empire
    DVC International1 Jan 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Moyn S,
    • Duranti M