Rate My Professor Alessandro Brogi

Alessandro Brogi serves as Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, part of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. His work in the History faculty focuses on U.S. foreign relations since 1945, particularly the Cold War dynamics involving the United States, France, and Italy. Brogi's academic background includes a degree in Political Sciences from the University of Florence, where he also completed an Italian equivalent of a Ph.D. on post-World War II U.S.-Italian relations under the mentorship of Ennio Di Nolfo. In 1990-1991, he came to the United States on a teaching assistantship at Ohio University, earning a second Ph.D. under John Lewis Gaddis at the Contemporary History Institute. He held a post-doctoral fellowship and served as an Olin Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University.

Brogi's career encompasses teaching positions at Ohio University, Yale University—where he substituted for Gaddis in courses such as History of the Cold War—and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center. At the University of Arkansas, where he has been a faculty member for nearly two decades, he has taken on leadership roles including Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, advisor for honors theses and internships, and a position on the steering committee for International and Global Studies. His research examines U.S. hegemony by invitation, national self-esteem, anti-Americanism, intra-alliance rivalries, and liberal internationalism through transnational and cultural lenses. Major publications include L’Italia e l’egemonia americana nel Mediterraneo (1996), a finalist for Italy’s Acqui Storia Prize; A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy (2002); and Confronting America: The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy (2011), recipient of the 2012 Smith Book Award from the Southern Historical Association’s European Section. He co-edited The Legacy of J. William Fulbright: Policy, Power, and Ideology and has organized events such as the 2015 global scholars conference on Fulbright’s foreign policy legacy. Brogi also directs faculty-led study abroad programs, including Italy and the Transatlantic World in Global Perspective.