My Virtual Talk on Wine and Beer Marketing Battles in Fascist Italy
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 […]
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How to Keep the Lights On in Democracies
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 […]
Where 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 […]
UCSB’s The Current on My Interwar Crisis Course
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
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 […]
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 […]
The New Fascism Syllabus
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
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 […]
Future Research
In addition to my first book, many of my other planned research projects will draw heavily upon transnational topics and themes.
Current Research
Monograph Cultivating Fascism: Wine and Politics in Mussolini’s Italy I am currently working on a book manuscript which explores the way in which vino came […]