Universität KonstanzExzellenzcluster: Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration

Prof. Victoria de Grazia

Vita

Victoria de Grazia
Full-time Faculty

1994– Columbia University, Department of History, Moore Collegiate Professor

2003–2004 European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization, Professor

Rutgers University, Department of History:

1991–1994 Professor

1981–1990 Associate Professor

1977–1980 Assistant Professor

Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York:

1976–1978 Assistant Professor

1974–1976 Instructor, Department of History

Visiting/Resident Professor

2013 American Academy in Rome, Sovern Visiting Professorship

2012–2013 Free University, Berlin, North American Studies School

2008 University of Fudan, Shanghai, December

2006–2009 Universita degli Studi, Federigo II, Naples, SUM Doctoral Program

2007 American Academy in Rome, Isabel and Laurance P. Roberts Resident Professor

2003–2008 European University Institute, Professor, Department of History and Civilization

2002–2003 Directeur d’Etudes: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

2001 Reid Hall Institute for Advanced Studies, Paris

2000 University of Bielefeld, Department of History

1998 Graduierten-Kolleg Identitätsforschung, Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg

1996–1997 Maison des Sciences de l'Homme

Current research projects

Projector Director: “Deprovinzializing Soft Power A Global-Historical Approach”, with collaborators from Koc, Tübingen, Oxford, Columbia, University of Sao Paulo, Renmin, Science Po

Functions within the Center

Visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (May–June 2017, May–June 2016)

Research project “Global history of fascist networks 1920s to 1950s”

Selected Publications

Books

The Fascist With Two Jewish Wives: A Moral History of Mussolini’s Italy- Manuscript under submission

Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth Century Europe. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005 (Italian Edition: Einaudi, 2006; Spanish: Belaqua 200; German: Fritz Springer Verlag, 2010; Chinese, Commercial Press, 2015
Winner: Myrna Bernath Prize, Best Book in International Relations, Organization of American Historians, 2005-2006

Editor and contributor, with Sergio Luzzatto, Dizionario del fascismo, Two volumes, Einaudi, 2002-2003

Editor, introductions, and contributor, The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective, University of California Press, 1996, with E. Furlough

How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1920-1945 University of California Press, 1992; Le donne nel regime fascista, Marsilio Editori, 1993, several editions, latest, 2012.
Winner: Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association, best book related to women's history, 1992; Premio Acquistoria, Finalist Prize,1994

The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy, New York and London: Cambridge University Press,1981; Italian Edition, La cultura del consenso nell'Italia fascista, Bari and Rome, Laterza, 1981; Japanese Edition: Kyoto: Yuhikaky Publishing Company 1989
Winner: Society for Italian Historical Studies Award For Best Unpublished Manuscript, December 1976 (for "The Politics of Leisure in Fascist Italy")

Contact

Moore Collegiate Professor of History
Columbia University
vd19[at]columbia.edu