Campus
- Scarborough (UTSC)
Cross-Appointments
Fields of Study
- Conflict, Violence and Genocide
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Europe
- Mediterranean and Middle East
- Social
Areas of Interest
Modern Italy; fascism and the far right; politics of monuments, museums, archaeology and cities; everyday life, violence and memory.
Biography
Joshua Arthurs specializes in the cultural, social, and intellectual history of twentieth-century Italy and Europe. His interests include fascism and the contemporary far right; the politics of memory, monuments and museums; the classical tradition, race and empire; and everyday life in wartime and dictatorship. His current book project, Forty-Five Days: Emotion, Experience and Memory after Mussolini, under contract with Oxford University Press, examines popular responses to the collapse of the Fascist regime in 1943. He has also written extensively on the afterlives of Fascist monuments in contemporary Italy and contested heritage in a global context.
Prof. Arthurs is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, Vice-President of the Society for Italian Historical Studies, and Book Reviews Editor for the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. Prior to his arrival in Toronto, he taught at West Virginia University and George Mason University.
Education
Awards
- 2022 Co-investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant, Authoritarianism: Lives, Legacies, Traumas Government of Canada
- 2016 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies American Academy in Rome
- 2016 Outstanding Researcher West Virginia University
- 2015 Outstanding Teacher West Virginia University
- 2005 Wolfsonian Fellowship Wolfsonian Museum/Florida International University
- 2003 Research Fellowship Ministero degli Affari Esteri
- 2003 Research Fellowship in Roman Studies Fondazione Lemmermann
Publications
- “‘Mussolini Did Good Things Too’: The Memory Politics of Fascist Modernity” (Silvana : 2023)
- “Alltagsgeschichte Italian-Style? New Perspectives on Everyday Life in Fascist Italy” (Routledge : 2022)
- “Vivere il fascismo: politica e vita quotidiana durante il regime” (Carocci : 2021)
- “The Anatomy of Controversy, from Charlottesville to Rome” (online by Cambridge University Press : 2019)
- “Bathing in Eternal Rome: The Mostra Augustea della Romanità” (Brill : 2018)
- “Combattere ‘l’altro’ dopoguerra: conflitto sociale nel Mezzogiorno, 1943-1944” (Viella : 2017)
- The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy (Palgrave MacMillan : 2017)
- “The Excavatory Intervention: Archaeology and the Chronopolitics of Roman Antiquity in Fascist Italy” (Sage Publications : 2015)
- Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy ((Cornell University Press : 2012)
- “Fascism as ‘Heritage’ in Contemporary Italy” (Routledge : 2010)