Vito RUGGIERO

CURRENT POSITION: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, “Ca' Foscari” University of Venice, Italy.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (Global Fellowship), funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe program.
Host institution: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Partner institution: University of Pittsburgh
Duration: 01/06/2025 – 30/04/2028

Visiting – Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA (2018)

Fellowship – National Security Archive, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA (2017)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Il sogno anticomunista. Neofascisti italiani in America Latina (The anti-communist dream. Italian neo- fascists in Latin America), foreword by Francesca Lessa, Roma Tre University Press, Rome 2023.

Journal articles

Do tu des. Reti anticomuniste e circolazione militante nel Cono Sud (Do tu des. Anti-communist networks and militant circulation in the Southern Cone), in «Confluenze. Rivista di studi iberoamericani», n.2, 2023.

La rete transnazionale della DINA: il caso del neofascismo italiano (The DINA transnational network: the case of Italian Neo-fascism), in «Parole-Chiave», n.10, vol 2, 2023.

El neofascismo italiano en el Paraguay de Stroessner. El asilo, la “Internacional Negra económica, la remoción del pasado criminal (Italian neo-fascism in Stroessner's Paraguay. Asylum, the "Black Economic International”, the removal of the criminal past), in «Ciencia Nueva. Revista de Historia y Política», vol. 3, n. 2, 2019.

Cosa non è l’Operazione Condor. Miti e incongruenze tra storia e narrazioni (What is not Operation Condor. Myths and incongruities between history and narratives), «Il Ponte», year 73rd, n.3, 2017.

Neofascismo italiano e dittatura cilena. Mutualismo nero tra due continenti (Italin neo-fascism and Chiliean dictatorship. Black mutualims between two continents), «Il Ponte», year 72nd, n. 8, 2016.

Book chapters

From Cold War Violence to Paraguayan Exile: The Alliance of Italian Neo-Fascists and South African White Supremacists, in Mariella Terzoli, Anna La Grange, and Evert Kleynjans (eds.), Military Connections and Interactions between Italy and South Africa in the 20th Century, De Gruyter, Berlin (forthcoming).

Repressione transnazionale e Plan Cóndor: stato dell’arte e nuove prospettive di ricerca (Transnational repression and Plan Cóndor: state of the art and new research perspectives) , in Luigi Guarnieri and Laura Fotia (eds.), Le sparizioni forzate in America Latina. Storia di un crimine transnazionale (Forced disappearances in Latin America. History of a transnational crime), Carocci, Rome (forthcoming).

“Con el testamento bajo el brazo”. L’anticomunismo violento come ponte tra America Latina e Italia (“With the will under one's arm”. Violent anti-communism as a link between Latin America and Italy), in Laura Fotia, ed., Le politiche dell’odio nel Novecento americano (The politics of hate in Twentieth-Century Americas), Nova Delphi, Rome 2020.

Book reviews

Francesca Lessa, The Condor Trials. Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America, New Haven (CT), Yale University Press, 2022, in «Rivista Italiana di Storia Internazionale», n.2, 2022

Giovanni M. Ceci, La CIA e il terrorismo italiano (The CIA and Italian terrorism), Rome, Carocci, 2019, in «Rivista italiana di Storia Internazionale», n.2, 2020.

Selected non-academic publications (related to transnational anti-communism in Latin America)

Italian neo-fascism in Latin America. Counter-revolutionary warfare between two continents, in «Security Praxis», 2023, available at https://www.securitypraxis.eu/italian-neo-fascism-in-latin-america-counter-revolutionary-warfare-between-two-continents/.

Operation Condor. What to expect from the second trial in Rome (with Francesca Lessa), in «Justice Info», 2023, available at https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/116804-operation-condor-what-expect-second-trial-rome.html.