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Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow BSc. Hons. Anthropology University of London; PhD. European University Institute 
Tel: (61 8) 6488
Fax: (61 8) 6488 1069
baratier@arts.uwa.edu.au
Research Interests
My academic path to date has been multidisciplinary of which anthropology and history have been major components. One of the main focuses of my work has been the problem of identity formation and of the transmission of knowledge. I have engaged with issues of historical memory and the public use of the past. The primary sources I used spanned from newsreels, documentaries and fiction films, illustrated magazines and newspapers to oral testimonies. In dealing with these I also had to confront the respective academic specialists in the fields. The historical period I scrutinised most in detail has been Italian colonialism in Africa and how this period was narrated from the thirties till the sixties in Italy, which has implied a comprehensive and critical knowledge of Ethiopian, Libyan and Somali history under Italian occupation and at the same time an appraisal of aspects of Italian culture from Fascism to the Republic. I have developed a special passion for cinema as agent of history and as an excellent source for the study of particular historical contexts.
Current Research
I am currently working on a project funded by the Australian Research Council entitled ‘The Women’s Duce and the Duce’s Women’. This is part of a wider team project investigating the 'Cult of Mussolini’ run by Richard Bosworth and
Giuseppe Finaldi of UWA as well as a team of British historians. My study aims to contribute an understanding of gender relationships during the Fascist regime with an emphasis on women in contact with the dictator, proposing an analysis their world views and feelings. Issues of power and discipline impose themselves as vitally important in this research.
Keynotes
Cultural and Subaltern studies
Fascisms
Cinema
Teaching
Semester 1 2009
HIST2223 Restaging the Past: Cinema and the Practice of History
HIST3323 Restaging the Past: Multimedia Project
Selected Publications
• Daniela Baratieri and Cris Shore, ‘Crossing European Boundaries through Education’ In Crossing European Boundaries: Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories, edited by Stacul Jaro, Moutsou Christina and Kopnina Helen, 23-40. Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2006.
• ‘The Evidence of Silences in the Transmission of Memory.’ In Italian Colonialism: Legacy and Memory, edited by Andall Jacqueline and Duncan Derek, 75-98. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005.
• ‘La re-edizione di Bengasi e L’assedio dell’Alcazar negli anni 50.’ In La storia del cinema italiano, vol. IX, edited by Sandro Bernardi and Lino Micciché, Roma: Scuola di cinema nazionale, 2004.
• ‘La rappresentazione dell’incontro/scontro coloniale e post-coloniale nei cinegiornali italiani: 1928-1966.’ In Comunicare il passato, edited by Simone Cinotto and Marco Mariano, 111-41. Torino: L’Harmattan Italia, 2004.
Forthcoming in 2008:
• Memory and Silences: Italian Colonialism 1930-1966, Bern: Peter Lang.
• ‘Terrorists and Veils: the Battle of Algiers forty years later,’ In Rethinking Third Cinema, edited by Frieda Ekotto and Adeline Koh, Berlin: LIT.
• Bengasi Revisited (cdrom), EUI Working Paper, Fiesole: Cadmus.
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