Victoria de Grazia
James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Director of the Institute for the Study of Europe 617 Fayerweather Hall Mail Code: 2527
Victoria de Grazia
James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Director of the Institute for the Study of Europe Columbia University
History
Personnel Committee (Fall 2008), MA in International and World History Program Committee (Fall 2008)
Biography A native of Chicago, Victoria De Grazia was educated at Smith College, University of Florence, and Columbia University where she received her Ph.D. in history with distinction in 1976. Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1994, she taught at Rutgers University. Her research interests lie in contemporary history, with longstanding commitments to studying western Europe and Italy from a gendered perspective and to developing a global perspective on commercial revolutions. Her publications include: Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth Century Europe (2005); The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (ed., 1996); How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (1992); The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (1981). She is currently writing a book about intimacy and power in Fascist Italy.
