Biography

Stefania Barca (Naples 1968) is distinguished researcher 'Beatriz Galindo' at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and an associate senior researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES/UC). She obtained her PhD in Economic History from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1997 and holds the title of associate professor in Modern History and in Economic History by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). She has been a Zennstrom visiting professor in Climate Change Leadership at the University of Uppsala (2021-22); a Guest Researcher at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies of Lund University (1015-16), a 'Ciriacy Wantrup' postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley (2006-08) and a visiting scholar at the Program in Agrarian Studies of Yale University (2005-06). She has been vice-president of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) between 2011 and 2013.
Her research interests span across environmental history and political ecology, with a focus on the environmental impact of industry during the Anthropocene, and the relationship between labor and the environment in transnational percpective. She has published articles in leading international journals such as Environmental History, Ecological Economics, Environment and History, and in a number of other peer reviewed journals and book collections in English, Italian and Portuguese. She is the author of two books and co-author of a textbook on environmental history. Her 'Enclosing Water. Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley' (Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press 2010), was awarded the Turku Prize for best research monograph in environmental history in 2011.