Prof. Victoria de Grazia
Vita
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