Stefania Barca (Naples 1968) is a senior researcher at CES, where she is co-coordinator of the research group on 'Social policies, labor and inequalities' and of the PhD program 'Democracy in the 21st century'. She obtained her PhD in Economic History from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1997. She has worked in several Italian universities, where she has taught Economic and Environmental History.
In 2005-06 she was a visiting scholar at the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, and from 2006 to 2008 she was a 'Ciriacy Wantrup' postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. She has published a number of articles in Italian and international History journals, and three books. Her latest publication: Enclosing Water Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley (Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press 2010), has been awarded the Turku Prize for best book in European environmental history.
Her new research project deals with industrial hazards and the relationships between labor and the environment in a transnational perspective. She has been recently elected vice-president of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH).