Where the Monsters Are Born
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 […]
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Interwar Crisis: Europe, 1918-1939
Dear friends and colleagues: Today I begin teaching my summer course “Interwar Crisis: Europe, 1918-1939” at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB History Department). During the next […]
Digital Projects
Completed or Ongoing Projects Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict (ISSN: 2385-1171) Zapruder World is both an Open Access History […]
Future Research
Monographs Black Coffee, Blackshirts: Coffee and Its Culture in Mussolini’s Italy (tentative title) Much like pizza, pasta, and wine, coffee consumption is one of the defining features […]
Current Research
Dissertation Cultivating Fascism: Wine Politics and Identity in Fascist Italy, 1915-1939 My dissertation explores the way in which vino came to be viewed as an […]
Publications
Articles Peer-Reviewed: “Bacchus among the Blackshirts: Winemaking, Consumerism, and Identity in Fascist Italy,” Contemporary European History (forthcoming). “In November 1933, an extraordinary paperback appeared on the shelves […]
“The Whole World Is Our Homeland,” Zapruder World 1 (2014)
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 […]