Professional Affiliation

Moore Collegiate Professor, Columbia University

Expert Bio

Victoria de Grazia is Moore Collegiate Professor at Columbia University. She is the author of important works  on consumer society and cultural hegemony, including  Irresistible Empire (2005), The Sex of Things (1996) and the forthcoming Soft-Power Internationalism, 1990-2020 (2021), and has written two previous prize-winning histories of Italian Fascism: The Culture of Consent (1981) and How Fascism Ruled Women, Italy, 1920-1945 (1996). She was a founding member of the Radical History Collective, has won Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, American Academy in Rome, Guggenheim, and Jean Monnet fellowships,  and is  member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.