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Victoria De Grazia
Fayerweather, Room 617
Director of the European Institute; James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization
Phone: 212-854-3667
Fax: 212-932-0602
vd19@columbia.edu
Biography:
Victoria de Grazia is Professor of History at Columbia University and the James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization. Before coming to Columbia in 1994, she taught at Rutgers University where she directed the Center for Historical Analysis. She has taught and lectured widely in Europe and elsewhere abroad, including two years at the European University Institute at Florence, the European Union's graduate center. She has written prize-winning studies of twentieth century Italian history, including How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (1992) and the Culture of Consent in Fascist Italy (1981). For the last decade, her major work has focused on the globalization of U.S. consumer culture, culminating in Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth Century Europe (2005) which has been widely translated. She has a long-standing interest in public history. From 1997 to 2002, she chaired the Council for European Studies, and she is a past director of Columbia's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She has been the recipient of numerous awards for the study of European history, including the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, two Jean Monnet Fellowships from the European University Institute, a Fulbright scholarship, and grants from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, ACLS, and Guggenheim Foundation. In 2005, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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