Noelle Turtur, Columbia University, “Making Fascist Empire Work: Italian Enterprises, Labor, and Organized-Community in Occupied Ethiopia, 1896-1943.”
Dr. Turtur’s work examines the intertwining of state, settler, and local activity in the enterprises operating in Italian East Africa, which relied on various combinations of public, parastatal, and private resources, personnel, and capital. Her dissertation intervenes in important ways in the ongoing re-evaluation of empire in Italian historiography, adding to our growing reassessment of Italian empire as absolutely comparable to and informative of European imperial histories more generally, while allowing its specificities and individual agents to emerge in their own stories.