Adrian Lyttelton, B.A.
Senior Adjunct Professor of European Studies—based at Bologna Center

Expertise

Geographic Areas
Western Europe | Italy

Background and Education
Formerly visiting professor at the American Academy in Rome and visiting professor in the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley; was professor of European history at the University of Pisa and professor of modern history at the University of Reading; former associate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University; served as academic director of the Research Institute at SAIS's Bologna Center; was acting director of the European Studies Program at SAIS in Washington, D.C.; fellow at All Souls College and St. Antony's College, both of the University of Oxford; B.A. (Hons.), modern history, University of Oxford

Foreign Languages
Italian

Publications
The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 (2004, 3rd edition; 1974 in Italian); Italian Fascisms, editor (1973); "Liberal and Fascist Italy," editor, in Short Oxford History of Italy (2002); "Creating a National Past: History, Myth and Image in the Risorgimento" in Making and Remaking Italy (2001); "La dittatura fascista" in Storia d'Italia (1997); "Society and Politics—1860-1915" in Oxford Illustrated History of Italy (1997); "The National Question in Italy" in The National Question in Europe (1990); "Society and Culture in the Italy of Giolitti" in Italian Art in the 20th Century (1989)