Mia Fuller is a cultural anthropologist and urban-architectural historian whose research concerns the interplays of physical space with political power. She has published extensively on architecture and city planning in the Italian colonies, winning an International Planning History Society book prize for Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism. She has recently published a revised and translation of this book (Una modernità apparente. L'architettura coloniale italiana dal Mediterraneo all'Africa Orientale, 2025) and is completing a new one titled Monuments and Mussolini: A Cultural History of Fascist Memory.
2023 “Difficult How? Italy’s Inertia Memoriae of Fascism,” in A Difficult Heritage: Fascist-Era Art and Architecture Out of Its Time, edited by Carmen Belmonte, Studi della Bibliotheca Hertziana, Cinisella Balsamo (Milan): Silvana, 21–29.
2023 “Italy: Beyond the Clichés that Obscure Unacceptable Histories,” in Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory, edited by A. Dirk Moses and Kornelia Konczal, London: Routledge, 143-52.
2022 “Città nuove,” in Luoghi del fascismo. Memoria, politica, rimozione, edited by Giulia Albanese and Lucia Ceci, Rome: Viella, 163-81.
2020 “Italian Colonial Architecture and City Planning in North and East Africa.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press, 2016—. Article published December 17, 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.822
2020 The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture: Reception and Legacy, edited by Stephanie Zeier Pilat and Kay Bea Jones, London: Routledge: “Figures and Frameworks” section editor and section introduction author.
2020 “Urban Designs for Rural Settlers: Paradoxical Civic Identity in the Pontine Marshes,” in The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture: Reception and Legacy, edited by Stephanie Zeier Pilat and Kay Bea Jones, London: Routledge, 228-240.
2019 “Laying Claim: Italy’s Internal and External Colonies,” in A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change, edited by Andrea Bagnato, Marco Ferrari, and Elisa Pasqual, New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 99-111.
2018 “Equivocal Mussolinis (What the Proposed Predappio Museum Can Learn from the Piana delle Orme Collection),” Passés Futurs (Politika.io, LabEx Tepsis, France). URL: https://www.politika.io/fr/notice/equivocal-mussolinis
2011 “Italy’s Colonial Futures: Colonial Inertia and Postcolonial Capital in Asmara,” California Italian Studies, 2(1). URL: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mb1z7f8
2008 “Mediterraneanism: French and Italian Architects’ Designs in 1930s North African Cities,” in The City in the Islamic World, edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Renata Holod, Attilio Petruccioli, and André Raymond, Leiden: Brill, 977-92.
2006 “Oases of Ambiguity: On How Italians Did Not Practice Urban Segregation in Tripoli,” in La Libia tra Mediterraneo e mondo islamico (Atti del convegno di Catania, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, 1–2 dicembre 2000, Aggiornamenti e approfondimenti), edited by Federico Cresti, Milan: Giuffrè, 163-81.
2000 “Preservation and Self-Absorption: Italian Colonisation and the Walled City of Tripoli, Libya,” The Journal of North African Studies 5(4): 121–54.
1996 “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Fascist Plans for the Colonial City of Addis Ababa and the Colonizing Suburb of EUR '42,” Journal of Contemporary History 31(2): 397–418.
• Published in Italian as “I progetti fascisti per la città coloniale di Addis Abeba e per il quartiere EUR ‘42,” Studi Piacentini 22(1997): 81–103.
1988 “Building Power: Italy's Colonial Architecture and Urbanism, 1923–1940,” Cultural Anthropology 3(4): 455–87.
• Published in Italian as “Edilizia e potere: l'urbanistica e l'architettura coloniale italiana, 1923–1940,” Studi Piacentini 9(1991): 117–55.
