Michele Sollai is a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral researcher. He earned his PhD in international history from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva, in 2022. Michele’s PhD project focused on the history of agrarian development in Ethiopia from the fascist occupation to the early post-World War II years. At the Rachel Carson Center, Michele has been working on his postdoc project “The Global Battle of Wheat,” focusing on the role of several agrarian sciences—from agronomy and agrarian ecology to plant breeding and plant pathology—in the transformation of Italy’s farming and natural environment during fascist rule.

Michele Sollai es investigador postdoctoral de la Fundación Nacional Suiza para la Ciencia. Obtuvo su doctorado en historia internacional en Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Ginebra, en 2022. El proyecto de doctorado de Michele se centra en la historia del desarrollo agrario en Etiopía desde la ocupación fascista hasta los primeros años posteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el Centro Rachel Carson, Michele ha estado trabajando en su proyecto postdoctoral "La batalla global del trigo", abordando el papel de varias ciencias agrarias (desde la agronomía y la ecología agraria hasta el fitomejoramiento y la fitopatología) en la transformación de la agricultura y la agricultura italianas y el medio ambiente durante el régimen fascista.

Sollai, Michele. 2022. How to Feed an Empire? Agrarian Science, Indigenous Farming and Wheat Autarky in Italian-Occupied Ethiopia, 1937-1941, In Agricultural History, 96(3), 379-416.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/96/3/379/318008/How-to-Feed-an-Empire-Agrarian-Science-Indigenous?redirectedFrom=PDF

Sollai, Michele. 2023. The fascist Green Revolution. In Plants, People, Planet, 1-10.