• Institute for Historical Studies

Federico Tenca Montini, PhD

research associate

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Research Interests

• History of relations between Italy and Yugoslavia
• History of memory and memory politics related to World War II along the Italy-Yugoslavia border
• History of cross-border television content consumption during the Cold War

Education

High school diploma – Liceo scientifico Giovanni Marinelli, Udine, 2003

Bachelor – University of Udine, 2007

Master – University of Milan-Bicocca, 2011

Ph.D.  – University of Teramo/Zagreb, 2018

Employment

Research fellow (various projects), University of Trieste, 2019-22

Research fellow ERC project Open Borders, ZRS Koper, 2023-24

Research leader ERA project TransborderTV, ZRS Koper, 2023-

Public functions

Member of the Board of directors of the Regional Institute for the History of the Resistance and Contemporary Age in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Irsrec FVG)

Awards and Achievements

SLORI prize for best doctoral dissertation, 2019

Projects

ERA project TransborderTV, 2025-2026, project leader

Selected publications

Tenca Montini, F., “Tito, Togliatti, la questione di Trieste e «quel 18 Aprile»”, in Studi Storici, no. 2/2025 (upcoming)

Tenca Montini, F., “The Case of Norma Cossetto. A Femorevisionist Issue, in Williamson Sinalo, C. e Mandolini, N. (Eds.), Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives. New York: Palgrave, 2023, pp. 47-68

Tenca Montini, F., La Jugoslavia e la questione di Trieste 1945-1954. Bologna: il Mulino, 2020