Elections: Igor Pizzirusso candidate for the position of Delegate of the IFPH

Biographical note
Igor Pizzirusso is a digital public historian active within the network of institutes for the history of the Italian Liberation Movement. His research includes work on the Last Letters of Death Row Inmates and Deportees of the Italian Resistance and on the Atlas of Nazi and Fascist Massacres in Italy. He is also engaged in educational projects—especially in digital history—and is co-author (with Andrea Micciché and Marcello Ravveduto) of Il primo libro di didattica della storia (Einaudi, 2025).
Since 2019, he has expanded his interests to Wikipedia as a tool for public history and to gaming as a method of public engagement. With Giorgio Uberti he designed the urban game Milano45 and has published several essays, including a study on gaming and cultural heritage in Public History Weekly and a reflection on video games and public history in Italia contemporanea. He has coordinated the “History and Gaming” working group of the Italian Association of Public History (AIPH) since 2020.
That same year, he joined the Boards of Directors of both AIPH and the PopHistory Association. In 2024 and 2025 he served on the Scientific Committee of the Nicola Gallerano Prize for Public History. He has been an editor of Novecento.org since 2011 and its editor-in-chief since 2019. In 2024, he also joined the editorial teams of Farestoria and Storia pubblica.
Pizzirusso is actively involved in training activities, leading courses for teachers and teaching in university seminars. He has regularly participated in public history conferences from 2018 to 2025.
Statement of interest for the position of IFPH Steering Committee Delegate
My candidacy is rooted in my long-standing and active roles on the steering committee of the Italian Association of Public History (AIPH) and within the Italian PH community. Today, however, it is evident that Italian PH needs deeper engagement with an international debate which began in the 2017 IFPH and AIPH joint conference in Ravenna. We need to push further to consolidate connections between national PH associations and the IFPH, so that their distinctive approaches to public history can reinforce the IFPH’s global role.
I am eager – and the Italian Association through me- to explore the mutual benefits that can emerge from more structured international exchanges. In recent years, AIPH has played a central role in promoting dialogue between cultural and scholarly institutions and the public through digital tools, collaborative processes, and participatory practices, to which I have actively contributed through my diverse experiences and skills in these areas.
If selected as a Delegate, I will be fully available to handle the necessary digital communication tasks. I would be pleased to strengthen the IFPH digital presence and foster inclusive, accessible communication for the global community. I have extensive experience in digital PH, including coordinating the AIPH newsletter and website (on the same platform as the IFPH website) and developing educational and participatory digital projects across online platforms.
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