Publications

Books and Edited Collections

  • The Enemy: The Politics and Propaganda of Italian Anti-Communism (in progress).
  • Red Spain and Fascist Prison: The Memoirs of Italo Orciani, Spanish Civil War Veteran and Redeemed Fascist, Marla S. Stone and Brian J Griffith, eds., University of Toronto Press, 2025.
  •   Naming the Enemy: Anti-communism in Transnational Perspective, special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 53, no. 1, January 2018.
  • The Fascist Revolution, The Bedford Series in History and Culture, Bedford/St. Martins, 2012.
  • The Patron State: Culture and Politics in Fascist Italy, Princeton University Press, 1998.
  • When the Wall Came Down: Responses to German Reunification, Marla S. Stone and Harold James, eds., Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1992.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Collaboration and Conflict: Nazi-Fascist Wartime Cultural Diplomacy,” European History Quarterly,  April 2024.
  • “Concentration Camps in Trump’s America?,” Fascism in America, Gavriel Rosenfeld and Janet Ward, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2023.
  • “Donald Trump’s Politics of Enemies and the Power of Anti-communism” in Als die Demkratie starb, Thomas Weber, ed., Verlag Herder, 2022.
  • “Ways of Seeing: The Cult of Display in Fascist Italy,” Arti in Italia, 1918 – 1943, Prada Foundation: Milan, 2018.
  • America’s Populist Billionaire Outsider,” The Huffington Post, March 7, 2016.
  • “Italian Fascism’s Soviet Enemy and the Propaganda of Hate, 1941–1943,” Journal of Hate Studies: Hate and Political Discourse, Vol. 10, 2012.
  • “Race, Faith and Family: Depicting the Enemy in Fascist Italy” in Fears Past, Michael Laffan and Max Weiss, eds., Princeton University Press, 2012.
  • “The Art of War: The Exhibition of Italian Soldier-Artists,” Artistes et parties. Esthetique et politique, 1900 – 1945,  Les presses du reel, Paris, France 2010.
  • “Potere e spiritualità: La Mostra degli artisti italiani in armi del 1942,” Memoria e ricerca, Vol. 33, April 2010.
  • “What Have We Learned from Culture: The Turn to Culture in Fascist Historical Studies,” Totalitarian Art and Modernity, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Jacob Wamberg, eds., Editions Tuscalanum, 2010.
  • “The Changing Face of the Enemy,” Constellations, Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2008.
  • “A Fascist Theme Park,”Visual Sense: A Cultural Reader, Elizabeth Edwards and Kaushik Bhaumik eds., Berg, 2008.
  • “Primo Levi, The Truce, and the Politics of Holocaust Representation,” The Legacy of Primo Levi, Stanislao Pugliese, ed., Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005.
  • “La Biennale di Venezia,” “Mostre artistiche,” “Mostra della rivoluzione fascista,” “18BL” — entries in Il fascismo: Un dizionario critico, Victoria de Grazia and Sergio Luzzatto, eds., Giulio Einaudi: Turin, 2003.
  • When Memory Makes Policy: Bosnia, Kosovo and the Holocaust, New England Journal of History, Vol. 5, No. 1, Winter 2003.
  • “The Last Film Festival: The Venice Biennale Goes to War,” (Re)viewing Fascism: Fascism and Film, Jacqueline Reich and Piero Garofalo, eds., Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • “A Flexible Rome: Fascism and the Cult of Romanità, Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture 1789-1945, Catherine Edwards, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  • “Challenging Cultural Categories: The Transformation of the Venice Biennale Under Fascism,” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1999.
  • “The Left and Kosovo,” co-authored with Josh Wick, Tikkun, July/August 1999.
  • “Kosovo: A Round Table,” Los Angeles Weekly, May 7, 1999.
  • “Making Official Culture: State Patronage in Fascist Italy” Fascist Visions, Mark Antliff and Matthew Affron, eds., Princeton University Press, 1997.
  • “Bosnia’s Untenable Peace,” Tikkun, March/April 1996.
  • “Mussolini’s French Connection: The Sternhell Debate Redux,” Radical History Review, Spring 1996.
  • “The Defeated in Mostar,” Il Manifesto, December 20, 1995.
  • “The Politics of the Dead,” Tikkun, May/June 1995.
  • “Staging Fascism: The Show of the Fascist Revolution,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 1993.
  • “Nationalism and Identity in Former East Germany,” Tikkun, November/December 1992.

Reviews

  • “Walls Between the Wars”, review of Romy Golan, Muralnomad:The Paradox of Wall Painting, Art Journal, Vol. 71, no. 1, Spring 2012.
  • Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars, The Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2011
  • Steven Ricci, Cinema and Fascism, European History Quarterly, 41 (1), 2011
  • Michael Hitchcock, The Bitter Road to Freedom, H-Diplo-net, November, 2011.
  • Megan Stack, Every Man in this Village is a Liar, The Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2010.
  • Roger Griffin, Fascism and Modernism, Modernism and Modernity, Volume 16, Number 2,  2009.
  • Claudia Lazzaro and Roger Crum, eds., Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy, American Historical Review, Vol. 110, 2005.
  • Antonio Costa-Pinto, The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascists and the New State, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 75, No. 3, September 2003.
  • Rossana Bossaglia, L’arte nella cultura italiana del Novecento, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2002.
  • Richard Bosworth, The Italian Dictatorship, American Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 10, June 2000.
  • Holocaust Infatuation, Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life, Tikkun, September/October 1999.
  • Reading Between the Lines in Schindler’s List, Tikkun, November/December 1998.
  • Mabel Berezin, Making the Fascist Self and Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascist Spectacle, Journal of Modern Italian History, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1998.
  • Gianni Isola, Cari amici lontani e vicini, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 69, No. 4, December 1997.
  • Ester DaCosta Meyer, The Work of Antonio Sant’Elia, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 56, No. 3, September 1997.
  • Art and Power, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 55, No. 4, December 1996
  • David Kertzer, Sacrificed for Honor, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1995.
  • Kitsch as Kitsch Can, The Nation, August 12/19, 1991.