Bio
Joshua Arthurs’ work explores the politics of memory, museums, monuments, and cultural heritage; historical fascism and the contemporary far right in Italy, Europe, and globally; and the legacies of war, dictatorship, violence, and empire. He is the author of Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy (Cornell University Press, 2012) and co-editor of The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy: Outside the State? (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017). His latest monograph, Forty-Five Days: Italians after Mussolini (Oxford University Press, 2027) examines practices of iconoclasm, reckoning, and denunciation following the collapse of the Italian Fascist regime. He is the co-investigator of the SSHRC Connections Grant-funded multimedia public history project Authoritarianism: Lives, Legacies, Traumas (2023). He regularly offers public commentary on monuments controversies, memory politics, and the far right.
Memberships and Awards
- President, Society for Italian Historical Studies, 2024-26
- Connections Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2022-23
- Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts, 2023
- Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2016-
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2015-16
Other Appointments
- Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC
- Tri-Campus Graduate Department of History
- Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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