Marybeth Tamborra

Marybeth Tamborra (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Modern European and American Black Intellectual History at the Graduate Center. Her research examines theories of fascism in the Black Radical Tradition during the moment of emergent fascism, and particularly the 1935 Invasion of Ethiopia. This transnational intellectual history weaves the interconnected protests in the West Indies with the demonstrations in Harlem, and the use of history and political theory for radical political change. Her other research interests include the Fascist built environment and public housing from the outskirts of Rome to the Libyan farmsteads, and the political deployment of the home as a means to attain labor, gender and political controls of the regime. Marybeth taught Global History at Brooklyn College, served as a writing fellow at the City College of New York. She holds an AB in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Outside of academia, Marybeth is Mamma to a three-year-old and a chef in New York and Italy.