Steven Forti

Steven Forti (born on the 23rd of October in 1981 in Trento) is an Italian historian and associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and has also worked as a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) of NOVA University of Lisbon. He specialises in the study of fascisms, nationalisms, and far-right movements in contemporary history.

He received his PhD in History in 2011 from UAB with a dissertation supervised by Pere Ysàs and Luciano Casali, which formed the basis of his work El peso de la nación. Nicola Bombacci, Paul Marion y Óscar Pérez Solís en la Europa de entreguerras (2014), examining the shift of left-wing politicians toward fascist positions during the interwar period. In 2017 he co-edited, together with Enric Ucelay-Da Cal and Arnau González i Vilalta, the study El Proceso separatista en Cataluña. Análisis de un pasado reciente (2006-2017).

He is a member of the Centre d'Estudis sobre les Èpoques Franquista i Democràtica (CEFID) and the Seminari Interuniversitari d'Investigadors del Feixisme (SIdIF).

Published works Forti is the author and co-author of several books and academic works on contemporary European political history.

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Public engagement In addition to academic research, Forti contributes to public discourse through articles, interviews, and collaborations with media outlets and journals.