PERGHER, Roberta

Max Weber Fellow, 2008-2009

From September 2009:

Assistant Professor
History Department
University of Kansas
USA 
 
Email rpergher@ku.edu 
  

 

 

 

 

Roberta Pergher received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 2007. She has an MA in International Relations from the University of Denver, where she earlier completed a BA in Economics and Women’s Studies. In 2007-2008 she served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan. A recipient of various fellowships and academic honors, Roberta was a graduate fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2006.

Her book project, “A Tale of Two Borders: Settlement and National Transformation in Libya and South Tyrol under Fascism,” juxtaposes Italy’s colonial territories and its national borderlands, arguing that the Fascist regime sought to transform these regions by employing, in two very different settings, similar strategies of dominance. Roberta’s current research explores the colonial conflict in Abyssinia and its ramifications for Italian and German racial and expansionary politics. More generally, her interests lie within the field of modern European history with an emphasis on Italy and Germany, specifically questions of agency in fascism, colonialism, and migration as well as borderland studies and comparative history.

At the University of Michigan, Roberta taught classes on comparative fascism, postwar Europe, sports and leisure in modern Italy, and European imperialism. She convened a graduate student colloquium on film and history in research and teaching and organized an international, interdisciplinary conference on Italian fascism. Her review article on recent trends in the study of Italian colonialism was published in Ricerche di Storia Politica. 

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