Draft:Philip Cooke (historian)

Philip Cooke (born April 25, 1965) is a British historian. He is a Professor of Italian History and Culture at University of Strathclyde. He is best known for his books and articles on the Italian Resistance.

Education
Cooke graduated in 1988 with a first class degree in Italian with Russian Studies from the University of Edinburgh and gained a PhD from the same University in 1994 with a thesis on Italian author Beppe Fenoglio under the supervision of Lino Pertile and Jonathan Usher.

Academic career
From 1992-1993 he was a temporary lecturer in Italian at Edinburgh University before moving to a permanent post at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow. In 2006 he was made a Cavaliere of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity. . He was appointed to a full professorship in Italian History and Culture in 2013. Cooke has taught courses on 19th and 20th century Italian history, literature and cinema, European History, and on the Resistance movements in Europe. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Pisa (2009), a visiting scientist at the University of Padua (2017), and a visiting professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2022). From 2010 to 2014, he was a co-editor, with Professor John Foot, of the journal Modern Italy. He has been a member of the editorial committee of the history journal Passato e presente. Rivista di storia contemporanea and is currently a member of the co-ordinating committee of this journal. Since December 2019 he has been the Chair of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI). He has collaborated extensively with the Istituto nazionale Ferruccio Parri (the national centre for the study of the Italian Resistance movement), sitting on the jury of the 2019 edition of the Premio Claudio Pavone, giving the keynote address in 2021,

Cooke’s research has focussed on the Italian and European Resistance movement, with particular attention to its social, historical and cultural afterlife. He published an important anthology of documents on the Italian resistance movement and an interdisciplinary study of Beppe Fenoglio’s series of manuscripts known collectively as Il partigiano Johnny Johnny the Partisan (2000), which placed this work in its historical, literary and philological context. . In the same year he published the first academic study in Italian of a crucial turning point in Italian history – the so-called fatti di luglio sessanta (events of July 1960) when a protest movement organised by former partisans brought down a government coalition which included the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement party. The presentation of this book in Reggio Emilia in July 2000 features in an episode of Paolo Nori’s novel Noi la farem vendetta. Cooke then turned to the subject of the Italian partisans who fled to communist Czechoslovakia in the immediate post-war in order to escape prosecution for alleged war crimes. His research was based on previously secret archival documents held in the state archives in Prague. In 2011 Cooke published his study of the long-term impact of the Italian Resistance movement: the Legacy of the Italian Resistance. This was translated into Italian by David Scaffei and published by Viella in 2013. Cooke has written for the Guardian newspaper, and has made appearances on UK television (The One Show), and contributed to Radio 3.

Books

 * The Legacy of the Italian Resistance (New York, Palgrave, 2011). Italian translation: L’eredità della Resistenza: storia, cultura, politiche dal dopoguerra a oggi (Rome, Viella, April 2015).
 * European Resistance in The Second World War (London, Pen & Sword, 2013). Co-editor Dr Ben Shepherd, Glasgow Caledonian University. American edition: Hitler's Europe Ablaze: Occupation, Resistance, and Rebellion during World War II (New York, Sky Horse Publishing, 2014). Polish Edition: Ruch oporu w Europie 1939-1945 (Warsaw, Bellona, 2016)
 * Ending terrorism in Italy (Oxford, Routledge, 2013). Co-authored with Professor Anna Cento Bull, University of Bath.
 * Luglio 1960: Tambroni e la repressione fallita (Milan, Teti, 2000 + preface by Luciano Canfora)
 * Fenoglio's binoculars Johnny's eyes: history, language and narrative technique in Fenoglio's Il partigiano Johnny (New York, Peter Lang, 2000)
 * The Italian Resistance: an anthology'' (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1997)