Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Ruth Ben-Ghiat | |
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| Born | April 17, 1960 United States |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) |
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| Thesis | The formation of a Fascist culture: the Realist movement in Italy, 1930–43 (1991) |
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| Institutions | New York University |
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| Notable works | Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present |
| Website | ruthbenghiat |
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (born April 17, 1960) is an American historian. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders.[1] Ben-Ghiat is professor of history and Italian studies at New York University.
Biography
[edit]Born in the United States to a Scottish mother and an Israeli-born Sephardi Jewish father, she grew up in Pacific Palisades, California.[2][3][4] She has a degree in history from UCLA and obtained her Ph.D. in comparative history at Brandeis University. A member of the American Historical Association since 1990,[5] she is professor of history and Italian studies at New York University.[6] She regularly writes for CNN, The Atlantic, and The Huffington Post.[7]
On February 13, 2023, it was announced that Ben-Ghiat would take up temporary residency at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as the Spring 2023 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals.[8]
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2002). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.[9]
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia, eds. (2005). Italian Colonialism (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230606364.
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Hom, Stephanie Malia, eds. (2015). Italian Mobilities. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138778146. OCLC 1061814583.
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2015). Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.[10]
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2020). Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Journal articles
[edit]- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (1997). "Language and the Construction of National Identity in Fascist Italy". The European Legacy. 2 (3): 438–443. doi:10.1080/10848779708579754.
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2001). "The Secret Histories of Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful". The Yale Journal of Criticism. 14 (1): 253–266. doi:10.1353/yale.2001.0002. S2CID 161994102.
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2005). "Unmaking the Fascist Man: Film, Masculinity, and the Transition from Dictatorship". Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 10 (3): 336–365. doi:10.1080/13545710500188361. S2CID 144449077.
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2006). "Modernity is Just Over There: Colonialism and the Dilemmas of Italian National Identity". Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 8 (3): 380–393. doi:10.1080/13698010600955883. S2CID 144399136.
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2015). "The Imperial Moment in Fascist Cinema". Journal of Modern European History. 13 (1): 59–78. doi:10.17104/1611-8944_2015_1_59. S2CID 147023860.
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2017). "Realism in Transition, 1940–43". The Italianist. 37 (3): 407–415. doi:10.1080/02614340.2017.1409307. S2CID 149392001.
Ph.D. dissertation
[edit]- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (1991). The formation of a Fascist culture: the Realist movement in Italy, 1930–43 (Thesis). Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University. OCLC 35153484.
References
[edit]- ^ Kwong, Matt (June 5, 2018). "Trump muses about pardoning himself. Experts on authoritarianism are horrified". CBC.
- ^ Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (December 21, 2021). "Home For the Holidays, But Not by Choice". Substack. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
When you grow up in Southern California with immigrant parents (Scottish mother, Israeli father) and your closest non-nuclear family members are all 11–14 hours away by plane, you know that seeing family is a luxury...Any available vacation time and money my parents had were spent going to England (where many of my parents' siblings lived) and to Israel, sometimes on the same trip.
- ^ Alexander, Neta (April 2, 2017). "The Mistake People Make Regarding Trump's Middle-of-the-night Tweets". Haaretz. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
- ^ Blitzer, Jonathan (November 4, 2016). "A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That's Familiar with Trump". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
- ^ Keough, Matthew (August 13, 2014). "AHA Member Spotlight: Ruth Ben-Ghiat". Perspectives on History. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
- ^ "Ruth Ben-Ghiat". NYU Arts & Science. New York University. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
- ^ DeVega, Chauncey (June 12, 2017). "Ruth Ben-Ghiat on how Trump is already using "fascist tactics"". Salon. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
- ^ "Notable historian of authoritarianism and MSNBC columnist to serve as Inouye chair". University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. February 13, 2023. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
- ^ Zamponi, Simonetta Falasca (2002). "Ruth Ben Ghiat. Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. (Studies on the History of Society and culture, number 42.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. x, 317. $45.00". The American Historical Review. 107 (2): 653–654. doi:10.1086/ahr/107.2.653.
- ^ Landy, Marcia (2016). "Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat". Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 33 (2): 176–180. doi:10.1080/10509208.2015.1109579. S2CID 191937183.
- ^ Lavin, Talia (December 24, 2020). "Corruption, violence and toxic masculinity: What strongmen like Trump have in common". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ Fukuyama, Francis (November 10, 2020). "Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (December 11, 2020). "'Strongmen' Review: Nostalgia, Virility and Power". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Norton, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-324-00154-6". Publishers Weekly. September 17, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ Kaiser, Charles (November 26, 2020). "Strongmen review: a chilling history for one nation no longer under Trump". the Guardian. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ Shribman, David M. (November 5, 2020). "Quite a cast of characters in Ruth Ben-Ghiat's 'Strongmen,' a brutal tour of the tyrannies of the last hundred years". The Boston Globe. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
- ^ Finchelstein, Federico (November 3, 2020). "It's Already Happening Here". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Ruth Ben Ghiat, Arts and Science faculty at New York University
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Publications by Ruth Ben-Ghiat at ResearchGate
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat publications indexed by Google Scholar
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American women writers
- American people of Scottish descent
- American people of Israeli descent
- American people of Sephardic-Jewish descent
- American women historians
- Brandeis University alumni
- Historians of fascism
- Jewish American historians
- New York University faculty
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni