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Joshua Arthurs

Associate Professor

Department of Historical and Cultural Studies (UTSC)

Bio

Joshua Arthurs is a historian specializing in the politics of memory, museums, archaeology, and cultural heritage; historical fascism and the contemporary far right; and the legacies of war, dictatorship, race, and empire in Italy, Europe, and globally. He is the author of Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy (Cornell University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Outside the State? The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017). His current book project, Forty-Five Days: Emotion, Experience and Memory after Mussolini, under contract with Oxford University Press, examines practices of iconoclasm, violence, and denunciation following the collapse of the Italian Fascist regime. He also regularly offers public commentary on contemporary memory debates and monuments controversies.

Memberships and Awards

Other Appointments

Teaching

MSL2303H Special Topics in Museum Studies: “Difficult” Heritages and Precarious Times 0.5 Credits

MSL2307H Special Topics in Museum Studies: Memory and Power 0.5 Credits