Enrico Iachello (Francofonte – 1952), Full Professor of Modern History, is the Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Catania, and Professeur invité at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme of Paris. He is Co-ordinator of the Doctorate in History of Culture, Society and Territory in the Modern Age, and he is also the director of several Masters degrees. He works for the Department of Cultural, Human and Territorial Sciences. He co-ordinates several research projects co-financed by MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research), by CNR (National Research Council), and by the Italian-French University. He collaborates with journals such as “Quaderni Storici”, “Rivista Storica Italiana”, “Annales ESC”, “Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine”. He is the author of several  monographs and essays, his research focusing on the history of the cities and the territory of the Mediterranean in the modern age, with special attention on the processes of formation of the Sicilian territorial identities.