Mia Fuller is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism (2007) and co-editor (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat) of Italian Colonialism (2005). She is currently completing work on a book on the force (or lack of force) of old fascist symbols that still exist in Italy, especially in the Pontine Marshes area.