Stanislao G. Pugliese is professor of modern European history and succeded his mentor, Dr. Pellegrino D'Acierno, as the Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University. In 2005, he was named Teacher of the Year by the Association of Italian American Educators.

Dr. Pugliese is a former research fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oxford University and Harvard University. A specialist on the Italian anti-fascist Resistance and Italian Jews, he is the author, editor or translator of a dozen books on Italian and Italian American history. His first book, Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile (Harvard University Press, 1999) has been translated into Italian, Russian and Romanian. An excerpt has been translated into Dutch in Euopees humanisme in fragmenten, a volume of essays featuring George Steiner, Tzvetan Todorov, Ugo Dotti, Adam Michnik, Jürgen Habermas, Leszek Kolakowski, Michael Ignatieff and Yves Bonnefoy.

Pugliese's essays on Italian and Italian-American history and culture regularly appear in academic and popular journals. He is the translator of Andrea Bocelli's autobiography, The Music of Silence and editor of the Italian and Italian American Studies series published by Palgrave Macmillan. At Hofstra University, Professor Pugliese directs the Italian American Lecture Series, has organized several international conferences and has edited numerous volumes of conference proceedings including The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy; The Political Legacy of Margaret Thatcher; Frank Sinatra: History, Identity and Italian-American Culture; as well as The Legacy of Primo Levi and Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism After the Fall. Other books are Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti From the Nazi Prison in Rome, 1943-1944 and an anthology, Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the Resistance in Italy.

His essay, "The Books of the Roman Ghetto Under the Nazi Occupation" was presented as the 17th Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture in 1999, was awarded the Peter E. Herman Literary Award at Hofstra University, and has been translated into Italian. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and his reviews have appeared in The American Historical Review.

He is presently collaborating on a film documentary on the Jews of Rome under the Nazi occupation. In 2009, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published his book, Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone which has won the Fraenkel Prize in London, the Premio Flaiano in Italy and the Howard Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association. His op-ed essay, "Earthquake at the Door," appeared in the New York Times on April 6, 2009.

Professor Pugliese is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled Dancing on a Volcano: A Cultural History of Naples.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (1951)

A deep knowledge of history makes fanaticism impossible.
Ignazio Silone, The School for Dictators (1938)