Victoria Witkowski

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Victoria Witkowski is an early career researcher working on the history of Italian fascism, colonialism and its public memories following a PhD at the European University Institute, Florence. From 2023–24, Victoria was Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto, where she worked on her first monograph and taught classes on European fascism and colonialism. Her research has been funded by Florida International University (2023), the British School at Rome (2022–23), New York University (2016–17) and the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (2022). She has previously taught at Syracuse University, Florence (2023). As a Visiting Fellow at ILCS, she is expanding her research on fascist masculinity, imperial culture, de-fascistisation and decolonisation to explore topical issues of continuity and rupture in Italian politics and culture between 1945 and the present.