Architecture Unveiled

I am a historian of architecture, politics, culture, and memory,

and of the relationships between those forces in different places and times.

Dr Hannah Malone

My Research

The role of architecture as politics and culture.

Architecture as politics and culture in everyday life

My research demonstrates how space, and the architectural fabric with which it is clad, are shaped by political and cultural forces that evolve over time - forces that, in turn, shape societies and the minds and action of those who occupy built space.

Italian Monumental Cemetries

Under a major strategy that politicised the dead, Italy's Fascist regime exhumed and reburied roughly 300,000 soldiers who fell in the First World War. The dead were relocated in a number of monumental ossuaries. Two of the largest, Monte Grappa and Redipuglia, now hold the remains of some 120,000 soldiers.

Fascist Ossuaries

Over the course of the nineteenth century, Italy saw the creation of cemeteries of unparalleled size and grandeur. Their construction marked the emergence of the bourgeoise, the unification of Italy, competition between major cities, and "tensions between regions, competing social groups, and the interests of Church and state" - Hannah Malone, Architecture, Death and Nationhood, Routledge 2017.

My History

Exploring Architecture, Politics Culture, and Memory

Ph.D. History of Art, University of Cambridge
M.Phil. History of Art, University of Cambridge
B.A. Hons. History of Art & Italian, Trinity College, Dublin

2024 Assistant Professor in History of Modern Architecture,Trinity College, University of Dublin

2021 Assistant Professor of Contemporary History, University of Groningen

2019 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

2017 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin

2014 Lumley Junior Research Fellow Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

2014 Fellow, McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, Cambridge

2013 Rome Fellow, British School at Rome

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Associate
Member Columbia Seminar for Studies in Modern Italy
American Association for Italian Studies
Association for the Study of Modern Italy

Awards
2006 The Italian Institute for Culture
2008 Homan Potterton Prize for Art History
2014 The Association for the Study of Modern Italy Article
2015 Prize Monuments and Mausolea Trust
2020 Christopher Seaton Watson Prize

Funded Research and Visiting Professorships

2015 McDonald Institute of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
2016 British Academy
2016 Italian Commission for the Centenary of WWI
2017 Association for the Study of Modern Italy
2017 German Historical Society
2023 RUG Faculty start-up grant
2024 University of Padua

Networking and partnerships

Co-founder RUG Heritage & Memory research network

Co-founder comparative study of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

Coordinator Cambridge Italian Research Network

International partner of the University of Rome Due

Invited Talks

Universities of Cambridge – Oxford – Padua – Groningen – Milan - Notre Dame Rome - Utrecht – Warwick - Freie Universität Berlin - Sarah Lawrence New York – Columbia - Trinity College Dublin – and at British Academy London - KNIR Rome - Monument and Mausolea Trust - Twentieth Century Society - Italienzentrum Berlin - Max Planck Berlin - British School at Rome - Swedish Institute in Rome - Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Panel Contributions

AAIS conference, Sorrento – CENTRA, Genoa - British School at Rome - MPI Berlin – Cambridge - Brussels

Conferences Organised

KNIR, Rome - Freie Universität Berlin - University of Cambridge - Academy of St Luke, Rome