Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an American historian and cultural critic. 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 an Israeli-born Sephardi father and a Scottish mother, she grew up in Pacific Palisades, California.[2][3][4] She graduated in history at UCLA and obtained a PhD 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]

Works

  • Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (1991). "The formation of a Fascist culture: the Realist movement in Italy, 1930-43". Ph. D. dissertation. Brandeis University. OCLC 35153484.
  • Publications by Ruth Ben-Ghiat at ResearchGate
  • Ruth Ben-Ghiat publications indexed by Google Scholar
  • Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2001). Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.[8]
  • 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, IN: Indiana University Press.[9]
  • Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (2020). Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present. W.W. Norton & Company.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

References

  1. ^ Kwong, Matt (5 June 2018). "Trump muses about pardoning himself. Experts on authoritarianism are horrified". CBC.
  2. ^ Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (21 December 2021). "Home For the Holidays, But Not by Choice". Lucid. substack. Retrieved 12 January 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.
  3. ^ Alexander, Neta (2 April 2017). "The Mistake People Make Regarding Trump's Middle-of-the-night Tweets". Haaretz.
  4. ^ Blitzer, Jonathan (November 4, 2016). "A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That's Familiar with Trump". The New Yorker.
  5. ^ Keough, Matthew (13 August 2014). "AHA Member Spotlight: Ruth Ben-Ghiat".
  6. ^ "Ruth Ben-Ghiat". NYU Arts & Science. New York University. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  7. ^ DeVega, Chauncey (12 June 2017). "Ruth Ben-Ghiat on how Trump is already using "fascist tactics"". Salon.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Lavin, Talia (December 24, 2020). "Corruption, violence and toxic masculinity: What strongmen like Trump have in common". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 26, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Fukuyama, Francis (2020-11-10). "Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  12. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (2020-12-11). "'Strongmen' Review: Nostalgia, Virility and Power". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  13. ^ "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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ Kaiser, Charles (2020-11-26). "Strongmen review: a chilling history for one nation no longer under Trump". the Guardian. Retrieved 2020-12-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ 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". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2020-12-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ Finchelstein, Federico (2020-11-03). "It's Already Happening Here". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2020-12-27.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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