Marla Stone

Marla Stone is a Professor of History at Occidental College and served as Department Chair from 2000–2004 and 2015–2019. She held the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities position at the American Academy in Rome from 2021 to 2023.

Research Interests: Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of culture, politics, and the state in 20th-century Europe, with expertise in Italian Fascist politics and culture, genocide studies, the contemporary far right, Holocaust memory, anti-communism, and interwar cultural diplomacy.

Scientific Awards & Fellowships:

• Howard Marraro Prize (2000)
• American Academy in Rome (1995/1996, 2021–2023)
• Wolfsonian Foundation (1995, 2024)
• Shelby Cullom Davis Center (2007)
• Stanford University (2011/2012)
• European University Institute (2017)
• Elected fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2023)

Advising & Grants: While no individual students are listed, her work has been supported by grants from the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Eli Lilly Foundation. She is also a former President of the Board of the ACLU of Southern California and the Society for Italian Historical Studies.