After obtaining a Degree in History of Philosophy at the University of Florence, Michaela Nacci received a PhD in History and Civilisation at the EUI (Fiesole). She has been a CNR and CNR-NATO researcher at EHESS in Paris, a Jean Monnet fellow at the IUE, and visiting professor at the University of Metz. She teaches History of Political Thought at L’Aquila University and lives in Florence, Italy.

In 1998, she was awarded the Anna Maria Battista Prize for her book La barbarie del comfort. Il modello di vita americano nella cultura francese del Novecento (Milan, Guerini, 1996). She has also published: L'antiamericanismo in Italia negli anni Trenta (Turin, Bollati Boringhieri, 1989); Pensare la tecnica. Un secolo di incomprensioni (Rome and Bari, Laterza, 2000); Politiche della tecnica. Immagini, ideologie, narrazioni (Genoa, Name, 2005); Storia culturale della Repubblica (Milan, Bruno Mondadori, 2009); and Figure del liberalsocialismo (Florence, CET, 2009), alongside a number of essays on contemporary political ideologies. She is currently writing a book on the political thought of Bertrand Russell.