Biography: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. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/donald-trump-pardon-himself-authoritarianism-experts-fascism-horrified-1.4691331. 
  2. ↑ Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (21 December 2021). "Home For the Holidays, But Not by Choice". substack. https://lucid.substack.com/p/home-for-the-holidays-but-not-by. "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. https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/MAGAZINE-the-mistake-regarding-trump-s-middle-of-the-night-tweets-1.5455296. 
  4. ↑ Blitzer, Jonathan (November 4, 2016). "A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That's Familiar with Trump". The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-scholar-of-fascism-sees-a-lot-thats-familiar-with-trump. 
  5. ↑ Keough, Matthew (13 August 2014). "AHA Member Spotlight: Ruth Ben-Ghiat". https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/summer-2014/aha-member-spotlight-ruth-ben-ghiat. 
  6. ↑ "Ruth Ben-Ghiat". New York University. https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/ruth-ben-ghiat.html. 
  7. ↑ DeVega, Chauncey (12 June 2017). "Ruth Ben-Ghiat on how Trump is already using "fascist tactics"". Salon. https://www.salon.com/2017/06/12/listen-ruth-ben-ghiat-on-how-trump-is-already-using-recognizable-fascist-tactics/. 
  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. 
  10. ↑ Lavin, Talia (December 24, 2020). "Corruption, violence and toxic masculinity: What strongmen like Trump have in common". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/corruption-violence-and-toxic-masculinity-what-strongmen-like-trump-have-in-common/2020/12/23/bc58b076-40dc-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html. 
  11. ↑ Fukuyama, Francis (2020-11-10). "Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/books/review/strongmen-ruth-ben-ghiat.html. 
  12. ↑ Varadarajan, Tunku (2020-12-11). "'Strongmen' Review: Nostalgia, Virility and Power" (in en-US). Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/strongmen-review-nostalgia-virility-and-power-11607727158. 
  13. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Norton, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-324-00154-6" (in en). September 17, 2020. https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-324-00154-6. 
  14. ↑ Kaiser, Charles (2020-11-26). "Strongmen review: a chilling history for one nation no longer under Trump" (in en). http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/26/strongmen-review-ruth-ben-ghiat-donald-trump-fascism-hitler-mussolini-franco. 
  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" (in en-US). https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/05/arts/quite-cast-characters-ruth-ben-ghiats-strongmen-brutal-tour-tyrannies-last-hundred-years/. 
  16. ↑ Finchelstein, Federico (2020-11-03). "It's Already Happening Here". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. https://newrepublic.com/article/160026/its-already-happening-strongmen-maga-book-review. 

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