Christian G. De Vito (History, Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2008) is Honorary Fellow at the Amsterdam-based International Institute of Social History and Research Associate at the University of Leicester. In the latter institution he participates in the Carceral Archipelago Project  with a study on convict transportation to late-colonial presidios and post-colonial penal colonies in Latin America (1750–1958). He has published extensively on the history of prison and psychiatry, convict labour and social movements, and on global labour history.

His historiographical interest especially focuses on how the micro-analytical perspective and a spatially-aware approach can be brought together, thus overcoming what he perceives to be the theoretical biases of (a part of) global history and the spatial shortcomings of (a part of) micro-history. He has named this integrated approach “Micro spatial-history”.

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