Specialization:
Modern European History

Research Interests:

• History of Elites
• History of Fascism 
• History of Cycling
• Modern Italian History

Major Publications:

Agrarian Elites and Italian Fascism. Princeton University Press, 1982. (Winner of Howard R. Marraro Prize, Society for Italian Historical Studies)

Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy. Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Winner of Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association)

Benito Mussolini: The First Fascist. Longman, 2005

History of Turin/Storia di Torino. Elnaudi, 2006 (Co-authored with Geoffrey Symcox) 

Undergraduate Courses:

Western Civilization Since 1700
20th Century Europe
Modern Italy
History of Contemporary International Relations

Graduate Courses:

20th Century Approaches to History
Topics in Modern European History 1870-1939
19th and 20th Italy

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