Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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| 🏅 Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) |
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat (born April 17, 1960) is an American history professor and political commentator. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders.[1] Ben-Ghiat is professor of history and Italian studies at New York University.
Biography
Born in the United States to a Scottish mother and an Israeli 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] She is an advisor to Protect Democracy, an organisation opposing attacks on U.S. democracy.[8]
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.[9]
Works
Books
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2000). La cultura fascista (in italiano). Translated by Bassi, Maria Luisa. Bologna: Il Mulino. Search this book on
[10] - Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2002). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. Search this book on [11]
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia, eds. (2005). Italian Colonialism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230606364. Search this book on [12]
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Hom, Stephanie Malia, eds. (2015). Italian Mobilities. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138778146. OCLC 1061814583. Search this book on
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2015). Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. Search this book on [13]
- Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2020). Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Search this book on [14]
Journal articles
- 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. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - 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. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - 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. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - 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. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2017). "Realism in Transition, 1940–43". The Italianist. 37 (3): 407–415. doi:10.1080/02614340.2017.1409307. Unknown parameter
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Ph.D. dissertation
- 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
- ↑ Kwong, Matt (5 June 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.
- ↑ "Our Advisors and Board". Protect Democracy. 2025. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
- ↑ "Notable historian of authoritarianism and MSNBC columnist to serve as Inouye chair". University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. February 13, 2023. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
- ↑ Review of La cultura fascista: Anna Maria Torriglia, Annali d'Italianistica, JSTOR 26148641
- ↑ Reviews of Fascist Modernities:
- Cinzia Sartini Blum, South Central Review, JSTOR 3189871
- Guido Bonsaver, Modern Italy, doi:10.1017/S1353294400013028
- R. J. B. Bosworth, "The Italian "Novecento" and Its Historians", The Historical Journal, JSTOR 4091751
- Maddalena Carli, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, JSTOR 27586960
- Etienne Deschamps, European Review of History, doi:10.1080/1350748022000005760
- Karl-Egon Lönne, Historische Zeitschrift, JSTOR 27634659
- James Tasato Mellone, History: Reviews of New Books, doi:10.1080/03612759.2002.10526030
- Lucy Riall, "Which Italy? Italian Culture and the Problem of Politics", Journal of Contemporary History, JSTOR 3180737
- Paul Schue, "The Fascist politicization of aesthetics", Patterns of Prejudice, doi:10.1080/0031322022000054376
- Simonetta Falasca Zamponi, The American Historical Review, doi:10.1086/ahr/107.2.653, JSTOR 10.1086/532463
- ↑ Reviews of Italian Colonialism:
- Sabina Donati, European History Quarterly, doi:10.1177/02656914070370030505
- Karl J. Trybus, Historia Actual, [1]
- ↑ Reviews of Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema:
- Marcia Landy, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, doi:10.1080/10509208.2015.1109579
- Marla Stone, The Journal of Modern History, JSTOR 26547439
- George Steinmetz, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, doi:10.1057/s41290-016-0007-5
- Diana Garvin & Jennifer Griffiths, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, doi:10.1080/1354571X.2017.1409542
- Liliana Ellena & Luca Acquarelli, Quaderni storici, doi:10.1408/87096
- Lorenzo Fabbri, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, [2]
- Rhiannon Noel Welch, "Imperial screens", Postcolonial Studies, doi:10.1080/13688790.2016.1161583
- Stanislao Pugliese, Film Comment, ProQuest 1699259736
- Franco Baldasso, "How Fascism Pushed Women out of the Frame", Public Books
- Erica Moretti, "Cinema and Empire", H-Net
- Giacomo Lichtner, "Films in Search of a Formula: Italian Empire Cinema as 'Imperial Debris'", H-Net
- ↑ Reviews of Strongmen:
- 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 (2020-11-10). "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 2020-12-27.
- Kaiser, Charles (November 26, 2020). "Strongmen review: a chilling history for one nation no longer under Trump". the Guardian. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
- 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.
- Michael R. Ebner, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, doi:10.1162/jinh_r_01740
- Michael H. Traison, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, doi:10.1080/23739770.2021.2025004
- Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs, JSTOR 26985957
- Nicola D’Elia, European Review of History, doi:10.1080/13507486.2020.1866839
External links
- 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
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- American people of Israeli descent
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