A native of Italy, Ilaria Scaglia studied and taught international history in the United States before joining Aston University in Birmingham as a Lecturer in Modern History in 2018. She was also a Volkswagen-Mellon post-doctoral research fellow in Germany (Free University Berlin) and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Her main fields of interest include the history of internationalism and the history of aesthetics and emotions. She is a Board Member of the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) and an active committee member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).