European history, in particular, Italian history, and the role of the dictator Mussolini, has had a big influence on the life of Winthrop Professor Richard Bosworth, who took up his Chair in History in 1987.
With a PhD from Cambridge, Winthrop Professor Bosworth has combined his two passions, history and Italian studies, into a highly successful career. He is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and his biography of Mussolini (2003) won acclaim and prizes around the world.
In 2004 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Trento, Italy, and took up a similar position at All Souls College, Oxford in 2005.
Winthrop Professor Bosworth was named in 1996 as one of Australia's most respected teachers of history. In 1999 (after surviving a quadruple bypass) he was nominated by UWA as one of its three candidates for the Australian National Teaching Award.
