Plenary - Victoria de Grazia
Professor of History, Columbia University
Victoria de Grazia has been a professor at Columbia University since 1993, Having taught at Lehman College of the City of New York (1974-76) and at Rutgers University (1976-1993). At the Rutgers Center for Analysis, she directed a study of 'Consumer cultures in historical perspective', the results of which were published in The Sex of Things (1996). She is also the author of How Fascism Ruled Women (1992), which won the Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association for 1992. Her recent book, Irresistible Empire (2005) grew out of her longstanding curiosity about how Europeans have contended with the U.S.'s rising hegemony in the twentieth century. It is the outcome of research in U.S. and European archives, and earlier versions of chapters have appeared in German, French, Italian, and Spanish-language publications. She is a founding member of the Radical History Review, and she has served on the board of editors of numerous journals including the Journal of Consumer Culture. (Excerpts from the link below)
- Biography link (Columbia University)
- Christian Science Monitor Review (11 July, 2005)