Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Year elected: 1995
Panel: C
Discipline: History

Professor Richard Bosworth holds joint chairs in History at the University of Western Australia and Reading University in the UK. From 2011 to 2014, he will become a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.  Professor Bosworth's research interests include:

• twentieth century Italian social and political history
• historiography
• the history of the Second World War.

Since 1993, Professor Bosworth's  books include (ed.) The Oxford handbook of fascism (2009), Nationalism (2007), Italy: the leasst of the Great Powers (1979/2005), Mussolini's Italy (2005), Mussolini (2002; rev ed., 2010); The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism (1998), Italy and the Wider World 1860-1990 (1996), Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: history writing and the second world war 1945-1990 (1993).  Also, with P. Dogliani (eds), Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation (1999) and with M. Melia (eds), Western Australia as it is today by Leopoldo Zunini (1997). His two book about Mussolinian Italy won five of Australia's history prizes and were short-listed for five others.   They were also translated into Italian and other languages.  Bosworth's next book wil be Whispering city: Rome and its histories, to be published by Yale University Press in January 2011.  He has also been commissioned by Cambridge University Press to act as co-editor for their New History of the Second World War.

Bosworth at different times has also held visiting fellowships at St. Johns College and Clare Hall Cambridge, Balliol and All Souls Colleges, Oxford and the Casa Italiana at Columbia University, New York.

• R.J.B. Bosworth (2011) Whispering city: Rome and its histories. London/New York, Yale University Press.
• R.J.B. Bosworth (ed) (2009) Oxford handbook of fascism. Oxford University Press.
  
• R.J.B. Bosworth (2007) Nationalism. London: Pearson.
• R.J.B. Bosworth (2005/1979) Italy, the least of the Great Powers: Italian foreign policy before the First World War. Cambridge University Press.
• R.J.B. Bosworth (2005) Mussolini's Italy. London/New York: Allen Lane/Penguin
• R.J.B. Bosworth (2002) Mussolini. London/New York: Arnold/OUP.
• R.J.B. Bosworth and P. Dogliani (eds) (1999) Italian Fascism: history, memory and representation. London: Macmillan.
• R.J.B. Bosworth (1998) The Italian dictatorship. London/New York: Arnold/OUP.
• R.J.B. Bosworth and M. Melia (eds), Western Australia as it is today 1906 by Leopoldo Zunini. University of Western Australia Press.
• R.J.B. Bosworth (1996) Italy and the wider world. London: Routledge.
• R.J.B. Bosworth (1993) Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima. London: Routledge.
• By the end of 2010, Bosworth had also published 69 scholarly articles, 23 book chapters and more than 100 academic reviews.

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