Michael R. Ebner
Assistant Professor of History

145 Eggers Hall / Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Tel. 315-443-4063 / Fax 315-443-5876
email: mebner@maxwell.syr.edu
 

Academic Specialization

Modern Europe, Modern Italy, Fascism

Education

  1. Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004

  2. B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1994

Teaching, Administrative, and Professional Appointments

  1. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University, 2005-present

Selected and Recent Publications

Publications

  1. “Dalla repressione dell'antifascismo al controllo sociale. Il confino di polizia, 1926-1943” Storia e problemi contemporanei 43 (2006), 81-104.

  2. “The Political Police and Denunciation during Fascism: A Review of Recent Historical Literature,” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 11:2 (June 2006), 209-226.

  3. "Terror und Bevölkerung im italienischen Faschismus," in Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, vol. 21: Faschismus in Italien und Deutschland: Studien zu Transfer und Vergleich, (eds.) Sven Reichhardt and Armin Nolzen (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005).

  4. "The Fascist Archipelago: Political Internment, Exile, and Everyday Life in Mussolini's Italy, 1926-43," (Columbia University: Ph.D. Dissertation).

  5. "The Persecution of Homosexual Men under Fascism 1926-1943," in Perry Willson (ed.), Gender, Family, and Sexuality: The Private Sphere in Italy 1860-1945 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

 Papers and Presentations

  1. 'Ordinary Vexations: Institutions of Coercion and Violence in Everyday Life under Fascism' September 2004, Conference on Imprisonment in Italian Culture, University of Connecticut

  2. 'The Persecution of Homosexuals under Fascism, 1926-1943' November 2002, Association for the Study of Modern Italy, London

  3. 'Confino di polizia: A Statistical Overview' March 2002, Barbieri Lecture Series, Trinity College

  4. 'Deviance and Exile in Fascist Italy' January 2002, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley

  5. 'La persecuzione dei testimoni di Geova sotto il Fascismo' April 2001, University of Rome, La Sapienza

Research Grants and Awards

  1. NEH Summer Seminar Grant (participant), "Italian Fascism: History and Interpretations," American Academy in Rome, June/July 2005

  2. Graduate Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, 2002-2004

  3. Whiting Fellow, Columbia University, 2001-2002

  4. Rome Prize in Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2000-2001

  5. Trinity College Barbieri Grant in Italian History, 2000-2001

  6. German Marshall Fund Research Support Grant, 2000

  7. Columbia University Dean's Summer Research Fellowship, summer 2000

  8. Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 1999