Marla Stone is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the American Academy in Rome (2021-2023) and Professor of History at Occidental College. Her books include The Patron State: Culture and Politics in Fascist Italy and The Fascist Revolution. In addition to the edited collections Fascism in America (2022), Als die Demkratie starb (2022), Fears Past (2012), Totalitarian Art and Modernity (2010), The Legacy of Primo Levi (2002), Reviewing Fascism (2002) and Fascist Visions (1999), Professor Stone’s scholarship has appeared in The Journal of Modern Italian Studies, The Journal of Contemporary History, Constellations, Memoria e ricerca, The New England Journal of History, The European History Quarterly, and The Journal of Hate Studies. She is the recipient of numerous national and international fellowships, including to the American Academy in Rome (1995/1996), the Wolfsonian Foundation (1995), the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University (2007), the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2011/2012) and the European University Institute (2017). After receiving her Bachelor’s degree cum laude from Pomona College, Professor Stone earned a Master’s and Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is currently completing a book entitled The Enemy: The Politics and Propaganda of Italian Anti-Communism. Professor Stone is the immediate past President of the Board of the ACLU of Southern California and the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
