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Joshua Arthurs specializes in cultural, social, and intellectual history of twentieth-century Italy and Europe. His research interests include the study of fascism and the contemporary far right, politics of memory, and the role of monuments and museums. He is currently working on a book project entitled Forty-Five Days: Emotion, Experience, and Memory of Mussolini, under contract with Oxford University Press, which examines popular responses to the collapse of the Fascist regime in 1943. Arthurs has written extensively about the afterlives of Fascist monuments in contemporary Italy and their contested heritage within a global context. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, served as Vice-President of the Society for Italian Historical Studies, and is the Book Reviews Editor for the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. Before joining the University of Toronto, he taught at West Virginia University and George Mason University.
University of Toronto • Toronto
Department of Sociology