Ruth Ben-Ghiat (born April 17, 1960) is an American history professor and political commentator. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders.
Biography
Born in the United States to a Scottish mother and an
Israeli-American Sephardi Jews Jewish father, she grew up in Pacific Palisades, California.
She has a history degree from UCLA and obtained her Ph.D. in comparative history at Brandeis University. A member of the American Historical Association since 1990,
she is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University.
Ben-Ghiat was the Spring 2023 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
She regularly writes for CNN, The Atlantic, and The Huffington Post.
Works
Books
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[Review of La cultura fascista:
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Anna Maria Torriglia,
Annali d'Italianistica,
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[Reviews of Fascist Modernities:
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Cinzia Sartini Blum, South Central Review,
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Guido Bonsaver, Modern Italy,
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R. J. B. Bosworth, "The Italian "Novecento" and Its Historians", The Historical Journal,
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Maddalena Carli, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales,
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Etienne Deschamps, European Review of History,
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Karl-Egon Lönne, Historische Zeitschrift,
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James Tasato Mellone, History: Reviews of New Books,
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Lucy Riall, "Which Italy? Italian Culture and the Problem of Politics", Journal of Contemporary History,
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Paul Schue, "The Fascist politicization of aesthetics", Patterns of Prejudice,
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Simonetta Falasca Zamponi, The American Historical Review, ,
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[Reviews of Italian Colonialism:
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Sabina Donati, European History Quarterly,
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Karl J. Trybus, Historia Actual, [1]
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[Review of Italian Mobilities: Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Italian American Review, ]
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[Reviews of Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema:
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Marcia Landy, Quarterly Review of Film and Video,
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Marla Stone, The Journal of Modern History,
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George Steinmetz, American Journal of Cultural Sociology,
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Diana Garvin & Jennifer Griffiths, Journal of Modern Italian Studies,
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Liliana Ellena & Luca Acquarelli, Quaderni storici,
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Lorenzo Fabbri, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, [2]
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Rhiannon Noel Welch, "Imperial screens", Postcolonial Studies,
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Stanislao Pugliese, Film Comment,
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Franco Baldasso, " How Fascism Pushed Women out of the Frame", Public Books
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Erica Moretti, " Cinema and Empire", H-Net
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Giacomo Lichtner, " Films in Search of a Formula: Italian Empire Cinema as 'Imperial Debris'", H-Net
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[Reviews of Strongmen:
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Michael R. Ebner, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
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Michael H. Traison, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs,
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Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs,
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Nicola D’Elia, European Review of History,
Journal articles
Ph.D. dissertation
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