LEVIS SULLAM, Simon

Max Weber Fellow 2008-2009

From September 2009:

Leverhulme Research Fellow
University of Oxford

Email Simon.Levissullam@orinst.ox.ac.uk 

 


 

 

Simon Levis Sullam has been since August 2006 an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Italian Studies of the University of California, Berkeley. His fields of interest include the history of ideas and culture in Europe between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth century, with a particular focus on nationalisms and fascisms; the history of the Jews and of Anti-Semitism; the history of the Holocaust; the history of historiography; questions of historical method and literary theory.

In 2005, he received a Ph.D. in European Social History from the University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari, where he has also taught the History of Modern Italy. After studies at Venice and UCLA (1997-98; 1999-2000), he has been a fellow of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi of Turin (2000), a visiting graduate student at the EHESS in Paris (2002), and a research associate fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York (2005-2006).

He is the author of Una Comunità Immaginata: Gli Ebrei a Venezia, 1900-1938 (Milan 2001, to be reprinted in fall 2008), the editor of Risorgimento Italiano e Religioni Politiche (special issue of the journal «Società e Storia», 2004), and the co-editor, with M. Cattaruzza, M. Flores and E. Traverso, of an international Storia della Shoah (Turin 2005-2006, 2 vols., currently under consideration for translations in French and English). His book La religione della nazione. L’eredità di Mazzini tra Risorgimento e fascismo, which deals with relationships between 19th-century nationalism and Fascism in Italy, will be published in 2009. His articles have appeared in the Italian journals: Passato e Presente, Studi Storici, Società e Storia, Belfagor and he has forthcoming contributions to the volumes Assimilation and its Discontents: the Jews of Italy (Toronto UP 2008) and Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism (Cambridge UP 2008, Proceedings of the British Academy).