MONTESANO Marina

Current Position
Full Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations (DICAM), University of Messina

Academic career
- 2021-2023: President of the Commission for the national scientific qualification in the field M-STO/01 Medieval History.
- 2015: Full Professor of Medieval History at DICAM - University of Messina


Fellowships
- Fellow of the Accademia della Crusca (1996)
- Fellow of Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance
- Member of the Directorio de evaluadores de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) from 2018 to 2022
- Member of the scientific committee of the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages - Barletta branch

Awards and Honours

- Katharine Briggs Award of the Folklore Society received in London on 8 November 2022 for the book Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft: Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century, London, Routledge, 2022
- Medieval Italy Prize 2022 for the book Ai margini del Medioevo, Storia culturale dell'alterità, Rome, Carocci, 2021
- In 2020 nominated among the 100 experts in the field of History and Philosophy according to the Pavia Observatory and the Gi.U.Li.A. association, with the Bracco Foundation and with the support of the European Commission Representation in Italy
- La tela di Penelope (Naxoslegge) Prize, 2019
- Anassilaos Prize 2017
- Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Publications Subsidy Award from the Wallace Foundation, a. 2000.