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: The Fall of Mussolini and Italy’s Reckoning with Fascism (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
- Tri-Campus Graduate Department of History
- Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
- Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies
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