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Medieval and Byzantine art, with particular focus on issues of artistic interaction across the Mediterranean.

I am Assistant Professor in the History of Art at Bocconi, and Research Fellow of the British School at Rome.
I hold a degree in cultural management from Bocconi, and an MA and PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Prior to joining the faculty at Bocconi, I held the positions of Research Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut; Lecturer in the History of Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art; and Assistant Director at The British School at Rome.
My scholarship has received recognition from a number of institutions, including, most recently: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (2016); The Leibniz WissenschaftsCampus, Mainz/Frankfurt (2019); the KHI - Florenz (2020-21); the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris (2021).

My current work focuses on the following areas:

• The nexus between arts and politics in the medieval Mediterranean, with specific focus on artistic interactions, political conflict, and public memory. My current monograph project explores these issues through the interpretative lens of crisis, and in relation to the visual arts of Venice in the fourteenth century.
• Conceptualizations and artistic applications of light and transparency, with a particular focus on the use and meaning of rock crystal in the religious and secular cultures of medieval Europe.
• Medieval materiality, with emphasis on the theoretical and social constructions of value in the arts of the medieval and Byzantine Mediterranean.

Organizational behaviors and cognitive psychology - in particular organizational identification and social networks within the organization and their impact on individuals' attitudes and behaviors.
Sustainability, innovation, and corporate governance in the creative industry. 

I obtained my Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Bologna (2010). I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Bocconi University (2010 – 2014) and for two years (2007-09) Visiting Scholar at the Stephen Ross School of Business, University of Michigan (USA). 

I am currently an assistant professor of Organization Theory and Behavior at the University of Genova and a member of the Art, Science, and Knowledge (ASK) Center at Bocconi University, as well as an adjunct professor at Bocconi and Catholic University. 

My research focuses on the relationship between social identity and social networks in organizations, particularly the mechanisms through which organizational identification and informal social relationships affect individuals’ attitudes and behaviors, such as learning behaviors, knowledge sharing, and cooperation. I am also interested in the topics of sustainability, innovation, and corporate governance in the creative industry.

Annie Cohen-Solal, Distinguished Professor at Bocconi University in Milan (Department of Social and Political Sciences), received a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne, where she developed a joint interest in history and sociology. Her academic career led to appointments at prestigious universities from Berlin to Jerusalem, New York, and Paris. As a writer, she gained international recognition in 1985 with Sartre (1905-1980), which was translated in fifteen languages and hailed as « monumental » by Le Monde Diplomatique. From 1989 to 1993, she served as Cultural Counselor to the French Embassy in the United States —an experience which prompted her to explore the theme of art and immigration through numerous conferences, articles and exhibitions. Among her books in English are Painting American: The Rise of American Artists, Paris 1867-New York 1948 (prix Bernier de l’Académie des beaux arts, 2000), Leo & His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli (Prix ArtCurial 2010), New York Mid-Century (with Paul Goldberger and Robert Gottlieb, 2013), Mark Rothko: Towards the Light in the Chapel (2015). As a curator, she produced Magiciens de la terre: Retour sur une exposition légendaire (Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2014 with Jean-Hubert Martin); Picasso the Foreigner (National Immigration Museum and Picasso national Museum Paris, 2021-2022), which won the Historia Award of best 2022 exhibition. Her last essay Picasso the Foreigner (Prix Femina Essai, Fayard, 2021) will be published by both Farrar Straus & Giroux (USA and the anglophone world) and Paidós (Spain and the Spanish world) in March 2023. Born in Algiers, Cohen-Solal lives between Paris and Milan.

Art-based education. Dynamics of the contemporary art system. Cultural policies and city making.

I specialised with a qualitative assessment on an art-based educational project. As ASK researcher, I work on projects that deal with the intertwining of contemporary artistic and social practices in cultural and urban ecosystems.

History of cultural institutions and art markets, History of Culture, Cultural Management, Rights Management, Museum Studies.

I am researcher in Economic History and I teach at SDA Bocconi. Since 1996 I have taught courses and seminars in several Bocconi degree programs, in particular within the Bachelor of Economics and Management of Arts, Culture and Communication and the Master of Science in Economics and Management of Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment. I collaborate with ASK (Art, Science, Knowledge) research center. I was Research Fellow at the University of Sussex (2001-2003), I won the Research Rellowship for the Getty Institute Research Center of Los Angeles (2003-2004), and I was Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2003-2004). Since 2005, I have collaborated with the Research Department of Victoria and Albert Museum of London, where I am invited as Visiting Professor for academic year 2008-2008. I am contributor to il Sole24Ore financial daily and il Giornale dell'Arte art journal.

Heritage studies, museum studies, critical/difficult heritage, decolonial studies,  organization studies, fascist heritage.

I am Research Collaborator at  LYNX research center and PhD candidate in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca. I did a visiting research period at HDK - Valand, Academy of Art and Design at University in Göteborg and I have published in academic journals, such as Museum Management and Curatorship and Engramma. Graduated in MSc Economics and Management for Art, Culture and Entertainment at Bocconi University, I worked in cultural institutions in Milan, such as La Triennale di Milano, BASE, and Pirelli HangarBicocca. I collaborate with ASK Research Center at Bocconi University.

A first research interest concerns the structuring and institutionalization of cultural systems, ranging from organizational studies to economic analyses of the creative sectors. Specifically, I have worked on the contemporary art market, museum organization and strategy, project spaces, and the creation of value in the comics industry in Italy. A second research interest, on which I wrote her doctoral thesis, falls within the field of critical heritage studies and in particular of difficult heritage, i.e. I have dealt with issues of cultural heritage conservation from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective that includes issues of collective memory, the political use of history, and decolonial theories. My doctoral thesis focuses on the concept of dissonance and heritage, by studying the reuse of former case del fascio in three Italian provinces and by analyzing and deconstructing the process of justification of the choices of reuse, preservation, or destruction.

Cultural commoning, urban regeneration, hybrid spaces, cultural innovation, social innovation, social movements.

I am currently PhD student in regional planning and public policy at Università Iuav di Venezia, and project manager of the European platform “MERITA, Where chamber music, cultural heritage and talent meet”. From 2019 to 2021 I was project coordinator at Le Dimore del Quartetto. I graduated with honour in 2017 at Bocconi University in Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment, with a research thesis conducted with ASK Centre, “Measuring cultural sustainability at city level”. I have collaborated with Bocconi University and ASK research centre as teaching assistant and researcher.