Lucy Riall is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. She has held positions at the École Normale Supèrieure Paris, the Free University Berlin, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cambridge, and in 2010-2011 was a visiting professor at the University of Freiburg.
Lucy's books include GARIBALDI: INVENTION OF A HERO, published in March 2007 by Yale University Press, and RISORGIMENTO: THE HISTORY OF ITALY FROM NAPOLEON TO NATION STATE, published in January 2009 by Palgrave.