Cultural Heritage in EU Policies

CV: Since 2000, Marcello Verga has been Full Professor at the Faculty of Political Science ‘Cesare Alfieri’, in Florence. In 2017 he was appointed by the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament "Expert" for the European Heritage Label Panel. He is also Professor at the PhD School of the University of Florence and past-chairman of the Italian Society for the History of the Modern Age (SISEM). Since 2013 he has been ‘Vicecommissario Straordinario’ of the ’Istituto Storico Italiano per l’Età Moderna e Contemporanea’, and since 2008 Director of the ‘Centro Interuniversitario per la storia delle città della Toscana’. Marcello Verga is a member of the editorial board of Florence University Press, member of the international jury at the Institut Universitaire de France in 2010, 2011, 2013 and in 2008 he was directeur d’études at the EHESS. He is currently on the editorial boards of the following journals: ‘Storica’; ‘Meridiana’; ‘Mediterranea. Ricerche storiche’; ‘Annali di storia di Firenze’; ‘Symbolae Antiquariae’; ‘Cambio. Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali’; www.storiadifirenze.org.