Dr. Mariella Terzoli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre d’Histoire of Sciences Po, working on the ERC Advanced Grant project "The Global War on Civilians: 1905–1945", led by Professor Sheldon Garon.

Dr. Mariella Terzoli earned her PhD in contemporary history in 2023 at the University of Milan in cotutelle with the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Her research was focused on the Italians who fought in Indochina within the French Foreign Legion (1946-1956), from enlistment to the end of their contracts.

She subsequently began a one-year postdoc at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” on the production and circulation of trade guns from Europe to Central Africa in the 19th Century.