Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Carl Levy BA MA PhD

Biographical Information

I joined the Department in 1991. I formerly held posts at Queen Mary Westfield College, the University of Kent at Canterbury and the Open University. I received a BA from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MA and PhD from the London School of Economics. From 1992 to 1997, I was on the Executive Committee of the Association for the study of Modern Italy and am joint convenor of the research seminar, Modern Italian History: the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Research interests

I have pubished widely in the fields of comparative European history and politics, modern Italian politics and history, and policymaking and regulation within the European Union. Recent books include:

Gramsci and the Anarchists (Berg, 1999) and Italian Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics (Berg, 1996).

Recent articles include 'Charisma and social movements: Errico Malatesta and Italian anarchism', Modern Italy, 3, 2, pp 205-17; 'Fascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945: Issues for Comparativists', Contemporary European History, 8, 1 (1999) pp 97-126, and 'Currents of Italian Syndicalism before 1926', International Review of Social History, 45,2 (2000).

My other main publications include Socialism and the Intelligentsia 1880-1914, (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987) (jointly edited), The Future of Europe: Problems and Issues for the Twenty-First Century, (Macmillan, 1997) (co-edited), Refugees: Citizenship and Social Policy in Europe (Macmillan, 1999) (co-edited), and with Mark Roseman (eds.), Three Postwar Eras in Comparison. Western Europe 1918-1945-1989 (Palgrave, 2001).

Teaching

Since joining Goldsmiths College, I have helped deepen the Department's European profile. My specialist course in the third year is The Government and Politics of the European Union. It was initiated through a grant from the Jean Monnet Project of the European Commission. Before taking over as Head of Department, I was the convenor of the first year course, Introduction to European Politics, and taught the second year course, Comparative European Politics. I also teach the option, Britain and Europe, for the Department's MA in Contemporary British Politics.

Areas of Supervision
Comparative European politics, European Union; modern Italian history and politics; European anarchism and syndaclism, 1870-1939; higher education in Europe since 1945; European refugee and asylum-seeker policy; and European regulation of the e-economy and digital media.