Christian G. De Vito (History, Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2008) is a Professor of Global Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna. He is a Co-coordinator (with Valeska Huber and Juliane Schiel) of the FSP Global History and also a  Co-coordinator (withJuliane Schiel) of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies (EMGS) Programme.
He participated in the Carceral Archipelago Project  with a study on convict transportation to late-colonial presidios and post-colonial penal colonies in Latin America (1750–1958). He has published extensively on the history of prison and psychiatry, convict labour and social movements, and on global labour history.
His historiographical interest especially focuses on how the micro-analytical perspective and a spatially-aware approach can be brought together, thus overcoming what he perceives to be the theoretical biases of (a part of) global history and the spatial shortcomings of (a part of) micro-history. He has named this integrated approach “Micro spatial-history”.