Victoria De Grazia

Professor Victoria De Grazia is the Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University. She is also the former Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She has experience in teaching at the European University Institute, Rutgers, and Herbert H. Lehman College of CUNY. De Grazia is a scholar of twentieth-century Europe and consumer culture in comparative perspective. She is also known for work on Italy, notably The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy and How Fascism Ruled Women. She is a coeditor of the Dizionario del Fascismo. In terms of research, she is well versed in the study of the cultural dimensions of U.S. global hegemony that culminated in Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe.