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Brian J Griffith

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My Virtual Talk on Wine and Beer Marketing Battles in Fascist Italy

December 2, 2020 Brian J Griffith 0

I recently gave a talk with UC Los Angeles’ Center for European and Russian Studies on my ongoing research on wine and beer marketing battles […]

How to Keep the Lights On in Democracies

November 1, 2020 Brian J Griffith 0

Over the past few weeks, I along with the other members of the Editorial Board for the New Fascism Syllabus co-authored an open letter of […]

A Virtual Talk by Alan Liu on “The Sense of History in the Digital Age”

May 10, 2020 Brian J Griffith 0

In conjunction with my ongoing graduate seminar on digital history (HIST 201DH: Theories and Practices of Digital History) at UC Santa Barbara, I recently organized […]

“Food Fights,” Zapruder World 5 (2019)

September 26, 2019 Brian J Griffith 0

I recently co-edited a special issue of the Open Access public-engagement journal, Zapruder World, on the global history of food and social conflicts. Spanning two millennia, […]

Where Monsters Are Born

May 16, 2019 Brian J Griffith 1

Since late-September 2018, I have been living in Rome on a Fulbright Research Grant completing my dissertation research and manuscript. As soon as my family […]

UCSB’s The Current on My Interwar Crisis Course

July 12, 2018 Brian J Griffith 0

Recently, I sat down with Jim Logan at University of California, Santa Barbara’s news and announcements blog, The Current, to discuss my current summer course, […]

Interwar Crisis: Europe, 1918-1939

June 25, 2018 Brian J Griffith 0

Today I begin teaching my summer course “Interwar Crisis: Europe, 1918-1939” at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB History Department). During the next six weeks, my students […]

The New Fascism Syllabus

July 13, 2017 Brian J Griffith 0

In the aftermath of the United States’ 2016 presidential election, both scholars and citizens began asking themselves “How could this happen?!” How could someone like […]

Scholars of Authoritarianism on the Trump Administration: A Collection of Recent Opinion Pieces and Interviews

June 19, 2017 Brian J Griffith 0

During the seemingly endless months leading up to 2016’s presidential election in the United States, a number of historians of twentieth century authoritarianism — scholars […]

“The Whole World Is Our Homeland,” Zapruder World 1 (2014)

August 24, 2014 Brian J Griffith 0

I recently joined an international group of scholars and activists to collaboratively develop an Open Access History journal titled Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History […]

Blog Archive

  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • May 2020
  • September 2019
  • May 2019
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • August 2014

Topics and Themes

authoritarianism beer capitalism coffee consumerism digital fascism food and drink globalization italy marketing neo-fascism neo-liberalism open access populism propaganda public transnationalism virtual wine

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Teaching Experience

Between 2012 and 2019, I served as both a teaching assistant and an instructor for…
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Recent Blog Posts
  • My Virtual Talk on Wine and Beer Marketing Battles in Fascist Italy December 2, 2020
  • How to Keep the Lights On in Democracies November 1, 2020
  • A Virtual Talk by Alan Liu on “The Sense of History in the Digital Age” May 10, 2020
  • “Food Fights,” Zapruder World 5 (2019) September 26, 2019
  • Where Monsters Are Born May 16, 2019
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