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Thomas Row is Professor of History and Head of the Contemporary History Department at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna – Vienna School of International Studies. He concurrently holds the position of Senior Adjunct Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Europe. Row received his Ph.D. with distinction in international relations, M.A., and B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. His career includes serving as Research Fellow at the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation from 1988 to 1993, Resident Assistant Professor of History at SAIS Europe from 1993 to 2003, and Adjunct Professor at the Robert K. Nilsson Center for European Studies of Dickinson College, Bologna, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Italian Studies at Villa Spelman from 2003 to 2006. He has delivered visiting lectures at Central European University in Budapest in 1996, the National University of Singapore in 1996, and Charles University in Prague in 1995. Additionally, he lectured on Italy at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State from 1990 to 1993.

Row's academic interests focus on the history of international relations, European political history, and contemporary Italian history. He is engaged in research for a general history of Italy during the First World War. Notable publications include the edited volumes Does Central Europe Still Exist? (2006) and Reflections on the Identity of Europe: Global and Transatlantic Perspectives (1996); chapters such as "Habsburg Decline Revisited: The Virtues of Cosmopolitan Empire" in Is the West in Decline? (2016), "De Gaulle and the Italians" in Charles De Gaulle's Legacy of Ideas (2011), and "Italy and the crisis of the international order" in Liberal and Fascist Italy: 1900-1945 (2002); the article "Mobilizing the Nation: Italian Propaganda in the Great War" in The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 24 (2002); and the book Il nazionalismo economico nell'Italia liberale (1997). Row contributed as a member of the founding committee and book review editor for The Journal of Modern Italian Studies. From 2003 to 2006, he served as historical consultant for History Channel documentaries on Anzio, Cassino, the Gothic Line, and the Russian Front. In 2009, he was awarded the Alumni Association's Excellence in Teaching Award for a large class at SAIS Bologna Center. At the Diplomatic Academy, his teaching includes courses on the Evolution of the International System: 1815-1945, Perspectives in World History, International Politics and Cinema, Problems in Modern History and Historiography, and Re-thinking Post-War Europe.