Stanislao G. Pugliese is assistant professor of modern European history at Hofstra University (New York). Professor Pugliese studied at the University of Florence, where he received a certificate of study in modern Italian political history (1988) and completed the Ph.D. at the City University of New York (1995). His dissertation was cited as the "Best Unpublished Manuscript in Italian Historical Studies" for 1996 and was runner-up for the distinguished Fraenkel Prize awarded by the Institute for Contemporary History in London.

Professor Pugliese is a regular book reviewer and his essays on Italian and Italian-American history have appeared in several journals and reviews. His essay, The Culture of Nostalgia: Fascism in the Memory of Italian-Americans, has been reprinted several times. At Hofstra University, Professor Pugliese is director of the Italian-American Lecture Series; in April 1999, he was the director of an international conference, The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy.

A specialist on the Italian anti-fascist resistance and Italian Jews, he is the author of Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile (Harvard University Press; Bollati Boringhieri) and Fascism/Antifascism: A Critical Anthology (Manchester University Press). His next project is tentatively titled "Representing the Resistance: Toward an Historiography of Italian Antifascism."

Stanislao Pugliese was born in New York City in 1965 to recent Italian immigrants. His mother is from rural Calabria and his father is from Campania. He is married to Jennifer Romanello and has one son, Alessandro Antonio Pugliese.