Biography
I write and teach courses on the political and cultural history of modern Europe, with a special emphasis on the history of Italian Fascism, food and beverage history, the history of (trans)nationalism, and Digital and Public History. My current research focuses on the history of industrial-scale winemaking and national identity in Mussolini's Italy (1922-1945), the history of transnational volunteerism during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and the history of neo-fascism in Italy between the 1950s and the 2010s. A graduate of University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph.D., 2020), I served as the inaugural Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Postdoctoral Scholar in Europe History at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) between 2020 and 2022, and am currently serving as a Visiting Instructor in Modern European History at UCLA and Scripps College.
Academic History
B.A., Sonoma State University (2007)
M.A., San Francisco State University (2011)
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (2020)
Academic Focus
Modern Europe; Fascist Italy; Food and Consumerism
Courses Taught
HIST 121: Gender, Culture, and Authoritarianism in Interwar Europe
Work
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES/CHAPTERS:
“‘Propaganda for Our Italy’: Ruth Williams Ricci, Women’s Mobilities, and Fascist Italy’s African Empire, 1935-1941,” in Andrea Germer and Jasmin Rückert, eds., Gendering Fascism: Organisations, Bodies, Representations (forthcoming with Brill)
“Bacchus among the Blackshirts: Wine Making, Consumerism and Identity in Fascist Italy, 1919-1937,” Contemporary European History 29:4 (November 2020): 394-415
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WRITINGS:
“Failure to Respond Strongly to Putin’s Aggression Could Prove Catastrophic: How the League of Nations’ Weak Response to Italy’s Invasion of Ethiopia Helped Precipitate World War II,” The Washington Post (February 24, 2022)
Awards and Honors
2022 “Ad-Hoc” Trinity College Research Grant in Modern Italian History Cesare Barbieri Endowment Trinity College
2020–2022 Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Postdoctoral Scholar in European History Fellowship Department of History University of California, Los Angeles
2018–2019 Fulbright Study/Research Grant Institute of International Education Sapienza Università di Roma
2015–2016 Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship Council for European Studies Columbia University