Ruth Ben-Ghiat Explained

Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Birth Date:17 April 1960
Birth Place:United States
Awards:Guggenheim Fellowship (2004)
Thesis Title:The formation of a Fascist culture: the Realist movement in Italy, 1930–43
Thesis Url:https://www.proquest.com/openview/8772b6c75eb2068c32e28d73c278716f/
Thesis Year:1991
Workplaces:New York University
Notable Works:Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an American historian. 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-born 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]

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.[8]

Works

Books

Journal articles

Ph.D. thesis

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Trump muses about pardoning himself. Experts on authoritarianism are horrified. CBC. Matt. Kwong. 5 June 2018.
  2. Web site: Ben-Ghiat . Ruth . December 21, 2021 . Home For the Holidays, But Not by Choice . Substack . en-US . 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..
  3. Web site: Alexander . Neta . April 2, 2017 . The Mistake People Make Regarding Trump's Middle-of-the-night Tweets . Haaretz . April 12, 2023.
  4. Blitzer . Jonathan . November 4, 2016 . A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That's Familiar with Trump . The New Yorker . en-US . April 12, 2023.
  5. Web site: Keough . Matthew . August 13, 2014 . AHA Member Spotlight: Ruth Ben-Ghiat . Perspectives on History . en-US . April 12, 2023.
  6. Web site: Ruth Ben-Ghiat . NYU Arts & Science . New York University . June 21, 2020.
  7. Web site: DeVega . Chauncey . June 12, 2017 . Ruth Ben-Ghiat on how Trump is already using "fascist tactics" . Salon . en-US . April 12, 2023.
  8. Web site: Notable historian of authoritarianism and MSNBC columnist to serve as Inouye chair . University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa . en-US . February 13, 2023 . April 12, 2023.
  9. 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 . 10.1086/ahr/107.2.653.
  10. Landy . Marcia . 2016 . Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat . Quarterly Review of Film and Video . 33 . 2 . 176–180 . 10.1080/10509208.2015.1109579 . 191937183.
  11. News: Lavin . Talia . Talia Lavin. December 24, 2020 . Corruption, violence and toxic masculinity: What strongmen like Trump have in common . The Washington Post . en-US . December 26, 2020.
  12. News: Fukuyama . Francis . Francis Fukuyama . 2020-11-10. Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump . The New York Times . 0362-4331 . en-US. December 27, 2020.
  13. News: Varadarajan . Tunku . Tunku Varadarajan. December 11, 2020 . 'Strongmen' Review: Nostalgia, Virility and Power . The Wall Street Journal . 0099-9660 . en-US . December 27, 2020.
  14. Web site: September 17, 2020. Nonfiction Book Review: Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Norton, $28.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-324-00154-6. 2020-12-27. Publishers Weekly. en.
  15. Web site: Kaiser . Charles . Charles Kaiser . November 26, 2020 . Strongmen review: a chilling history for one nation no longer under Trump . the Guardian . en-GB . 2020-12-27.
  16. Web site: Shribman . David M. . David M. Shribman . 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 . en-US . December 27, 2020.
  17. Finchelstein . Federico . Federico Finchelstein . November 3, 2020 . It's Already Happening Here . The New Republic . 0028-6583 . en-US . December 27, 2020.

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