About the Presenter
Luca Irwin Fragale is a Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and a Postdoc Researcher at Heidelberg for the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. He earned the Habilitation as an Associate Professor in History of Political Thought and Institutions and, previously, a Ph.D. in History of Political Doctrines at La Sapienza University in Rome. He is a former Visiting Research Fellow at Aarhus Universitet-Institut for Kultur og Samfund. He graduated at the University of Bologna with a thesis in History of Law and he earned a postgraduate degree of Archival Science, Paleaography and Diplomatics. He is the author of several monographs and scientific papers mainly about the history of Freemasonry, Fascism, the Grand Tour and history of Southern Italy, but also encyclopedic entries for the Italian historical pages of the Senate of the Republic.
Recipient of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Fellowship