FILM INTRODUCTION

Silvana Patriarca received her laurea at the University of Turin and her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has taught at Columbia University and the University of Florida, and is currently a professor in the Department of History of Fordham University in New York City. She specializes in the history of modern Italy and her research has ranged from the social history of industrialization to the intellectual and political history of statistics to the cultural history of nationalism and the construction of national identities in their intersection with gender and “race.” She is a recipient of fellowships of the National Humanities Center, the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, and the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, and the author of several books and articles published in international journals. Her most recent book is Race in Post-fascist Italy: “War Children” and the Color of the Nation, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.   The Italian translation entitled Il colore della repubblica.“Figli della guerra” e razzismo nell’Italia post-fascista (Einaudi, 2021) was the recipient of the “Federico Chabod” prize for history of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 2024.