Gregory D. Milano

Gregory Milano is an award-winning interdisciplinary historian and social theorist specializing in modern European and global history. 

Dr. Milano has 20 years of lecturing experience across multiple disciplines including History, Social Theory, Political Science, International Relations, Global Studies, Sociology, Economics, Psychoanalysis, Ethnic Studies, Criminology, and Urban Studies. 

Before joining Lawrence, Milano was a lecturer at the University of Chicago, and a Scholar-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston.

His mentees at Lawrence have been awarded Fulbright scholarships to study at Oxford and teach abroad, and admitted to graduate and law schools, including the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Fordham Law. 

Milano’s current research project examines cultural identity and anti-globalism in Fascist Italy during the late interwar period. He is the author of “The Class Without Consciousness: Fascism’s ‘New’ Workers and the 1942 World’s Fair of Rome” in Contemporary European History (2021), for which he received the 2022 Society of Italian Historical Studies Top Article Prize in Modern Italian History.

Dr. Milano continues to research Mexico’s relations with fascist states during the Great Depression, an interest that began as recipient of a Mellon Foundation Latin American Scholastic Fellowship at the University of Chicago.

Some of his popular courses at Lawrence include:

• Fascism, Nazism, Neofascism (HIST/GOVT/GLST 496)
• Coffee, Liquid Modernity (HIST/GLST 222)
• The Enemy Within: Modern Policing in Global Perspective
• Hip Hop Revolution, 1973-
• Sigmund Freud and his Discontents
• Introduction to Economic History (HIST 255/ECON 155)
• Social Theories of Domination (HIST 291)
• Europe in Crisis, 1871-1991 (HIST 275)

Publications:

• Gregory D. Milano, “The Class Without Consciousness: Fascism’s ‘New’ Workers and the 1942 World’s Fair of Rome,” Contemporary European History Volume 30, No. 3 (2021), 366-382.
• Gregory D. Milano, “Past-Modernism, or the Cultural Logic of High Fascism: Toward an Architecture of Italian Difference, 1936-42,” Critical Historical Studies Volume 10, No. 1 (2023), 43-71.