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Igor Pizzirusso Elected and Ratified as Delegate to the IFPH Steering Committee

The International Federation for Public History (IFPH) is pleased to announce that Igor Pizzirusso has been elected and ratified as a Delegate to the IFPH Steering Committee.

 

Igor Pizzirusso is a digital public historian actively engaged in the network of institutes dedicated to the history of the Italian Liberation Movement. His research focuses on memory, resistance, and political violence, including 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. Alongside his research, he is deeply involved in educational initiatives—particularly 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, Pizzirusso has expanded his work in public history to include Wikipedia as a platform for public engagement and gaming as a method for historical interpretation and participation. Together with Giorgio Uberti, he designed the urban game Milano45 and has published several essays on gaming, cultural heritage, and public history, including contributions to Public History Weekly and Italia contemporanea. Since 2020, he has coordinated the History and Gaming Working Group of the Italian Association of Public History (AIPH).

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, and in 2024 he also joined the editorial teams of Farestoria and Storia pubblica.

Pizzirusso is strongly committed to training and education, regularly leading professional development courses for teachers and contributing to university-level seminars. He has participated consistently in national and international public history conferences between 2018 and 2025, strengthening dialogue between scholarly research, digital practice, and public engagement.

In his statement of interest, Pizzirusso emphasized the importance of reinforcing connections between national public history associations and the IFPH, building on the foundations laid during the 2017 joint IFPH–AIPH conference in Ravenna. He highlighted the need for deeper international exchange and collaboration, particularly in the digital sphere, to ensure that diverse national approaches to public history contribute meaningfully to the federation’s global mission.

As a Delegate to the Steering Committee, Igor Pizzirusso brings extensive experience in digital public history, participatory practices, and organizational communication. He has expressed his full availability to support the federation’s digital initiatives, strengthen its online presence, and promote inclusive and accessible communication across the global public history community.

With his election and ratification, Igor Pizzirusso joins the IFPH leadership at a moment when international collaboration, digital innovation, and critical public engagement are central to the future of the field.


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Jimena Perry (January 24, 2026). Igor Pizzirusso Elected and Ratified as Delegate to the IFPH Steering Committee. IFPH-FIHP. Retrieved February 11, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/15k14


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