Prof. Dr. Mia Fuller is Gladyce Arata Terrill Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Department Chair of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley (external link, opens in a new window). As a cultural anthropologist and urban-architectural historian her research concerns the interplays of physical space with political power. She has published extensively on architecture and city planning in the Italian colonies, winning an International Planning History Society book prize for "Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism". Currently she is completing a revised edition (in Italian) of this book, as well as a new book titled "Monuments and Mussolini: A Cultural History of Fascist Memory".
She is the first visiting professor to come to Regensburg as part of the exchange program. Details of her visit can be found in this press release (external link, opens in a new window).