Francesco Cassata

Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Genoa. He has written extensively on the history of racism, eugenics, genetics, and molecular biology.  He is author of Racism and Antisemitism in Fascist Italy: The Politics, Ideology, and Imagery of “La Difesa della razza” (Routledge, 2024), and Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy (Central European University Press, 2011). His current research project focuses on scientific diplomacy and European integration in the field of molecular biology.