Field-Of-Study: Italian History

Walter L. Adamson earned his B.A. with High Honors from Swarthmore College in 1968 and his Ph.D. in the History of Ideas from Brandeis University in 1976. He taught two years at Whitman College in Washington state and then, after a year as a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard University (1977-78), joined the

Alan Stahl is a medieval historian whose specialties include coinage and monetary history and Venice.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 with a dissertation on "The Merovingian Coinage of the Region of Metz," which became his first book (published Louvain-la-Neuve, 1982).  His other books include The Venetian Tornesello: A Medieval Colonial Coinage

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a cultural historian of modern Italy and Europe and a scholar of modern Italian Studies. Her areas of research include modern Italian culture and history, Italian film, twentieth-century European politics and culture; Fascism and the politics of its memory; and Italian and European empires. She is Chair of the Department of Italian