Professor Dr. Joshua Arthurs

Biography

Joshua Arthurs’ work explores the politics of memory, museums, monuments, and cultural heritage; the historical fascism of the contemporary far right; and the legacies of war, dictatorship, race, and empire, both in Italy and across Europe and globally. He is the author of Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy (Cornell University Press, 2012) and co-editor of The State? Politics in Everyday Life in Fascist Italy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017). His recent manuscript, Forty-Five Days: Italians Under Mussolini, submitted to Oxford University Press, examines practices of iconoclasm, violence, and denunciation during the collapse of the Italian Fascist regime. He is a co-investigator for the SSHRC Connections Grant-funded multimedia public history project Authoritarianism: Lives, Legacies, Traumas, and regularly offers public commentary on monument controversies and memory politics related to the far right.

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