Adjunct Professor and Affiliated Scholar, History

PhD European University Institute, Italy
M.A. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy

Office: Lowerre Academic Center, Office 13
Email: gennas@fus.edu

Giorgio Ennas is an Adjunct Professor and Affiliated Scholar at Franklin Switzerland. Moreover, he collaborates with research groups at the universities of Utrecht (UU) and Fribourg (FR).

He received his PhD from the European University Institute of Fiesole (EUI) in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, he was the Principal Investigator (PI) of a two-year project entitled Pandemics and Borders. Pandemics as Driver towards Modern Borders and International Collaboration in 19th century Mediterranean and South Eastern European Periphery funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) (link). Between 2023 and 2024, he worked as PI of a one-year project funded by the Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici (GCSS) of Rome, entitled The Profession of Consul. Cesare Durando and the Professionalisation of the Consular Career of the Historic Right, 1863-1876. Between 2024 and 2026, he worked as research associate at the Laboratorio di Storia delle Alpi (LabisAlp) of the University of Mendrisio and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utrecht in the ERC Cooperation 2024-2029 project led by Prof. Ozan Ozavci (https://fighting-pandemics.sites.uu.nl/)

2026-2027 Courses

HIS 104	Global History I: Traditions, Encounters, and Adaptation from the Stone Age to the 16th Century	FALL 2026
This course is an introduction to themes and trends in the political, economic, cultural, and social, history of pre-modern societies in global perspective. It covers the development of civilizations in Eurasia, Africa and the Americas from the Neolithic Revolution to the "Columbian Exchange" with emphasis on the emergence and diffusion of religious and political institutions, the role of the environmental context, as well as the impact of encounters between human societies. Students are introduced to the historiography of empire and global history/globalization, and attention is devoted to the reading and analysis of different categories of primary sources.

Research interests:

His fields of interest are the history of knowledge, diplomacy and health in the Mediterranean between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular reference to the relations between the Ottoman Empire and the European countries in the Balkan area and in North Africa, particularly with Italy and Switzerland.

Publications:

Monographs

‘Italo-Ottoman Relations in the Age of the Congress of Paris: Mirroring the ‘Other’, 1856-1871’, Bloomsbury, London, 2026 (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/italoottoman-relations-in-the-age-of-the-congress-of-paris-9781350378254/).

Edited volumes

Bernd Bucher-Giorgio Ennas, Sanitary Boundaries. Understanding the Sanitary Genesis of Borders between the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries, Routledge, London, 23 November 2026, ISBN: 9781041125426 (https://www.routledge.com/Borders-and-Sanitation-from-the-Seventeenth-to-the-Twenty-First-Century/Ennas-Bucher/p/book/9781041125426).

Arda Akıncı-Giorgio Ennas-Fatma Aladağ-Stefan Rohdewald, From the Frontiers of the Empire to the Borders of the Nations. Borderland, Security and Safety in the (post-)Ottoman Spaces (1700-1939), V & R Unipress GmbH, 2026, ISBN:978-3-8471-1825-1 (https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/geschichte/osteuropaeische-geschichte/59703/from-the-frontiers-of-the-empire-to-the-borders-of-the-nations?srsltid=AfmBOopPIkO01jNwjf_tnz_huqsLFnPCVofHlT3WOGe5qKf5lm-TCrDy).

Chapters for edited volumes

‘Negotiated Maritime Border. Sanitary Cooperation between Beys and Consuls and the Genesis of the Tunisian Maritime Border’, in Bernd Bucher-Giorgio Ennas (eds.), Sanitary Boundaries. Understanding the Sanitary Genesis of Borders between the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries, Routledge, London, November 2026.

‘Protecting the Swiss The Protection of the Swiss Citizens in the Ottoman Empire between Schutzgenossenschaft and National Consuls in the 1870s’, in Lars Regula- Jörg Ulbert (eds.), Consular Jurisdiction: On the History of the Judicial Functions of Consulates (12th-20th century), Studies of International Law 83/30, 2026, ISBN: 978-90-04-75518-5, pp. 218-232.

‘Borders in Progress. The Early Transimperial Development of Tunisian Political Borders in the First Half of the 19th Century’, in Arda Akıncı-Giorgio Ennas-Fatma Aladağ-Stefan Rohdewald (eds.), From the Frontiers of the Empire to the Borders of the Nations. Borderland, Security and Safety in the (post-)Ottoman Spaces (1700-1939), V & R Unipress GmbH, 2026, ISBN: 978-3-8471-1825-1, pp. 41-63.

‘The Franco-Prussian War and the Ottoman Adoption of Realpolitik’, in Karine Varley (ed.), The Franco-Prussian War. Turning-Points in European Experiences and Perceptions of Military Conflict, Routledge, London-New York, June 2024, pp. 40-53.

‘Global Criminal Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean. Illicit connections between Constantinople, the Italian peninsula and New York (1855-1861)’, edited by Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr and Burhan Çağlar, Levantines of the Ottoman World: Communities, Identities, and Cultures, Ibn Haldun University Press, Adapazarı, 2024, pp. 65-93.

‘Negotiating Protection. The Inclusion of Ottoman-Swiss Relations in the Diplomatic Germansphere during the First World War’, edited by Elife Biçer-Deveci and Ulrich Brandenburg, The Ottoman Empire and the ‘Germansphere’ in the Age of Imperialism, Comparativ, 2022, pp. 349-363.

‘Confine sanitario o nazionale? L’influenza delle epidemie nell’emergere dei nazionalismi balcanici’, in Malattie e Società [Sanitary or national border? The influence of epidemics in the emergence of Balkan nationalisms], edited by Francesco Cutolo and Costanza Bonelli, Farestoria, Rivista dell’Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea, 2021, pp. 33-50.

‘“Non una di queste proposte fu messa in esecuzione.” Sarajevo e l’epidemia di colera del 1866’ [“Not one of these proposals was implemented”. Sarajevo and the cholera epidemic of 1866], in Il filo sottile tra stato di emergenza, limitazione delle libertà e consenso, edited by Idamaria Fusco and Gaetano Sabatini, RiMe, Rivista dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, 2021, pp. 275-293.

‘Connecting the two seas. Italian and Ottoman diplomacies in the Suez-Red Sea area’, in Italy and the Suez Canal. A Mediterranean history, from the mid-Nineteenth century to the Cold War, edited by B. Curli, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 247-260.

Peer-review journal publications

‘Rewriting History. To What Extent Did 19th-Century Ottomanism Impact 21st-Century Neo-Ottomanism?’, written with Angelo Francesco Carlucci (İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi), in the monographic dossier entitled The Ottoman Afterlives in Turkey’s Projection of Influence on Africa and the Middle East: between nostalgia and amnesia, edited by Nicola Melis and Carlo Sanna, Afriche e Orienti. Rivista di studi ai confini tra Africa, Mediterraneo e Medio Oriente, (2), 2024, pp. 20-50, DOI: https://doi.org/10.23810/AEOXXVII202422.

‘Ottomans in Italy. Ottoman Communities and Diplomatic-Consular Networks in Southern Italy in the Nineteenth Century’, written with Consuelo Emilj Malara, Mediterranea – ricerche storiche – Anno XXII – April 2025, ISSN 1824-3010 (printed) ISSN 1828-230X (online), pp. 107-134 (https://www.storiamediterranea.it/portfolio/aprile-2025/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR6ozcc93meCpEpzuR7RQbWQm8jzE6UNlWc723yOp8S4Vu-L1rI2wYVianT6rA_aem_lwpfU5Ze6tJ7swjd5iXkyA).

‘Beyond Diplomacy: The Demarcation of Montenegrin-Ottoman Borders (1879-1881)’, in “Drawing the Line”: Border Commissions in Eastern Europe, edited by S. Rindlisbacher, L. Gatejel and N. Baron, Journal of Modern European History, 2024, pp. 25-39 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/16118944231221024).

‘Borders and Contagion. Ottoman Administration of Bosnia between Border Reinforcement and Health Protection (1866-1867)’, Historical Searches / Historijska traganja, 22, 2023, pp. 91-122 (https://iis.unsa.ba/wp-content/uploads/Giorgio-Ennas_HT_2023_online.pdf).

‘Tra rivoluzione e diplomazia. Giacomo Durando e lo sviluppo della politica estera sardo-italiana nel Mediterraneo orientale, 1856-1862’ [Between Revolution and Diplomacy. Giacomo Durando and the Development of Sardinian-Italian Foreign Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1856-1862], in Rassegna Storica del Risorgimento, Anno 110, Fascicolo 1/2023, Gennaio-Giugno 2023, pp. 56-81.

‘‘Dans l’intérêt de la Santé Publique de l’Empire’. The Ottoman Consuls during the Cholera Epidemic of 1867’, in Euras Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Istanbul, 2022, pp. 225-244 (https://ejoss.euras-edu.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/EJOSS-Ekim-2022.pdf).

‘The Birth of the Ottoman Colonial Space. The Libyan Case (1835-1918)’, Proposte e Ricerche n. 77. Economia e società nella storia dell’Italia centrale. Anno XXXIX – estate/autunno 2016, Macerata EUM, edizioni Università di Macerata, pp. 43-65.

Collections of unedited documents

Giorgio Ennas (ed.), ‘Reports of Cesare Durando Italian vice-consul in Sarajevo (1863-1867). Accaparrarne gli animi per il nostro interesse’, The Isis Press, Istanbul, 2020, ISBN: 978-975-428-639-7.

Chapters for monographs

Preface for the volume entitled The Italian Consulate in Saigon. The Making of Diplomatic Representation in Colonial Era (1856-1941), by Christopher Denis-Delacour, Nha Xuat Ban Tre, Ho Chi Minh City, 2024.

Conference proceedings

‘Italian physicians and Ottoman health. The contribution of Italian doctors to the Ottoman sanitary systems in the nineteenth century’, in Epidemics and transmissible disease. Scourges throughout History, Tunisian Mediterranean Review of Economic and Social Studies, pp. 71-90, 2026, ISBN: 978-9909-00-928-4.

‘Arte epidemica. Rappresentazioni italo-ottomane degli scenari epidemici e delle “misure sanitarie moderne” nel tardo Impero ottomano’ [Epidemic art. Italo-Ottoman representations of epidemic scenarios and ‘modern sanitary measures’ in the late Ottoman Empire], with Giulia Bei, In ottica della pandemia: risvolti linguistici e strategie didattiche, Edizioni della Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche e Sociali dell’Università di Split / Editiones Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Spalatensis, 2026, pp. 175-196, ISBN: ISBN 978-953-352-141-1.

‘Dal Ticino a Costantinopoli. Viaggiatori e migranti ticinesi nella Costantinopoli del secolo “lungo”’ [From Ticino to Constantinople. Travelers and migrants from Ticino in the “long” century Constantinople], in Percorsi di ricerca, Serie II-7, Lampi di stampa, Milan, 2025, pp. 67-82 (https://www.labisalp.usi.ch/storage/app/media/Working%20Papers/wp-2025-II-7-Ennas.pdf).

Musa Toprak-Consuelo Emilj Malara-Giorgio Ennas (eds.), ‘Italo-Ottoman Conversations. A Shared Pathway’, CasaItalia, Ankara, 2023, ISBN: 978-605-74913-4-3.