Riccardo Marchi is currently integrated researcher at the Center for International Studies (CEI-IUL) of ISCTE-IUL and invited professor at Lusófona University (Lisbon, Portugal). He was born in Italy, in the city of Padua, in 1974. In 2001 he graduated in Political Science with specialization in political-history at the Università degli Studi di Padova. In 2008 he got the doctorate in MOdern and Contemporary History at the ISCTE-IUL (Portugal) with a thesis on the far right at the end of the salazarist authoritarian regime. His research fields are the right-wing radicalism (political thought, parties and movements) and the relations between States and radical organizations in contemporary Europe. He was Principal Investigator of the NEAR project (New Euro-American Radical Rights) granted by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) between 2018-2022. He was scholarship researcher of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2015) working on the Portuguese radical right during the transition to democracy. He began his academic career at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) on the topics of the radical right at the end of the Portuguese authoritarian regime and during the democratic period in comparative perspective (2008-2014). In this context he was visiting researcher at the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville (Spain, 2007) and at the University of California, Berkeley (United States, 2008). He taught in undergraduate and master’s degree courses at the European University (Portugal, 2010-2014), ISCTE-IUL (2016-2020), Lusofona University (2021 onward) in the fields of reserach methods, social movements, nationalism, populisms. He participated in the international projects “Iberian Democratic Transitions: Portugal and Spain in Compared Perspective”, coordinated by Professor António Costa Pinto, ICS-UL, (Portugal) and “Internationalisation des droites radicales Europe/Amériques (IDREA)”, coordinated by Professor Olivier Dard, University of Metz (France, 2012-2015), and since 2014 he is member of the executive commitee of the international research network “Right-wings, History and Memory”.

Universidade/Instituição	Tipo	Curso	Período
ISCTE-IUL História - Portugal - Lisboa	Doutoramento	História Moderna e Contemporânea	2008
Università degli Studi di Padova Itália - Padova	Licenciatura	Faculdade de Ciências Políticas - Especialização Histórico-Política - Universidade dos Estudos de Pádua (Itália)	2001
Università degli Studi di Padova Itália - Padova	Licenciatura	Faculdade de Ciências Políticas - Especialização Histórico-Política - Universidade dos Estudos de Pádua (Itália)	2001
Università degli Studi di Padova Itália - Padova	Licenciatura	Faculdade de Ciências Políticas - Especialização Histórico-Política - Universidade dos Estudos de Pádua (Itália)	2001
Università degli Studi di Padova Scienze Politiche - Itália - Pádua	Licenciatura	Ciências Políticas	1999

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