Mia Fuller

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Associate Professor of Italian Studies; Director, Program for the Study of Italy
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Mia Fuller is the Gladyce Arata Terrill Distinguished Associate Professor of Italian Studies. Combining fieldwork with archival and bibliographic research, she has published extensively on architecture and city planning in the Italian colonies, winning an International Planning History Society book prize for Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism (Routledge, 2006). She is also the co-editor (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat) of Italian Colonialism: A Reader (Palgrave, 2005). She has also published on Libya and the legacies of Italian colonialism there, and on the historiography of Italian architecture and the arts under fascism. Currently, she is preparing an ethnographic, architectural, and oral-historical study of the ‘New Towns’ built in 1930s Italy.