Giulio DALLA GRANA

Giulio DALLA GRANA

Research Fellow (2025–2026)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giulio Dalla Grana is a Research Fellow at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. He obtained a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Padua in 2017, followed by an M.A. in European Studies through a double-degree programme between the University of Padua and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in 2019. In 2024, he completed his doctorate in a joint programme between the University of Turin (Department of Historical Studies) and the University of Amsterdam (Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents). During his doctoral studies, he also collaborated with the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Centre for European Studies, 2021), the Vilnius University (Department of Political Philosophy and History of Ideas, 2022; Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, 2024), and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (2024). His research focuses on the interplay between political power and religious authority, the history of political and religious thought and movements, and the mutual entanglement of political and religious ideas in political and civil religions. In particular, he investigates the case-study of the social-religious movement led by Andrzej Towiański (1799–1878). As a Research Fellow at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, he explores nineteenth-century political religiosity, examining the transfer of the Sacred into political ideas and the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the phenomenon.