Cristina Bon is Associate Professor of History of Political Institutions in the Faculty of Political Science at Catholic University of Milan. She is interested in the institutional and constitutional history of the United States, with a specific regards to the Nineteenth Century state and nation-building processes, as well as the presidential powers and prerogatives.
Currently, her research focuses on two main topics: the historical-comparative study of the Italian and American administrative systems in the late Nineteenth Century; the long-term historical institutional analysis of the presidential powers, prerogative and relations to the other constitutional branches;.
She currently teaches the courses of History of Political Institutions (international program of International Relations and Global Affairs) and History of Comparative Administrative Systems (master’s degree course in European and International Politics) at the Campus of Milan and History of Political Institutions (three-year degree course in Political Science and International Relations) at the Campus of Brescia.
At the Catholic University of Milan she is a Faculty member of the Doctoral School in Institutions and Policies and teaching coordinator of the School; she is director of the Arts and Crafts Research Center and collaborates with Polidemos (Centre for the study of democracy and political changes).
She is member of the Inter-university Center for the Analysis of Symbols and Political Institutions “Mario Stoppino”.
She is affiliated with AISIP (Italian Association of the History of Political Institutions), the Society for the Studies of Political Institutions, the OAH (Organization of American Historians), and Sissco (Italian Society for the Study of the Contemproary History)
She is editor and editorial secretary of Instituta. Journal of the History of European and International Institutions.