Philip V. Cannistraro and Brian R. Sullivan

Sullivan (left) and Cannistraro
Born in New York City, Philip Vincent Cannistraro (1942-2005) earned his BA (1965), MA (1966) and PhD (1971), all from New York University. A recognized authority on the Italian American experience, the history of modern Italy and fascism, he taught history at Florida State University in Tallahassee (1971-82) and at Drexel University where he was appointed head of the History-Politics Department in 1988. He later directed the Italian American Studies Program at Queens College and was editor-in-chief of the Italian American Review. He curated the 1999–2000 New York Historical Society exhibit on the Italians of New York.

His book The Factory of Consent was the first historiographical attempt to reconstruct the structure and functioning of the propaganda apparatus of Mussolini’s regime. Cannistraro edited the first critical dictionary on fascism and also researched the history of Italian emigration to the United States. He was the first distinguished professor of Italian American studies associated with the Calandra Institute.

Besides La Fabbrica del consenso, Cannistraro’s books include Civilizations of the World, Il Duce’s Other Woman, The Western Perspective: A History of European Civilization in the West and Blackshirts in Little Italy. In 1993, Cannistraro won the Prezzolini Prize for outstanding contributions to Italian Culture. He was twice a Fulbright fellow in Italy and also received the Howard Marraro Prize.

Born in 19XX in YYY, Brian Robert Sullivan…


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