Fabio Gentile

Fabio Gentile is graduated in modern letters (University LOrientale, Naples, Italy) and holds a PhD in Philosophy and Politics (University LOrientale, Naples, Italy). He has also been in a post-doctoral stage in Political Science (University of São Paulo, Brazil).Currently, he is a professor of Political Sciences at the Department of Social Sciences, and permanent professor at the Graduate Program in Sociology (Federal University of Ceará), where he is also the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Sociology. He is also a permanent professor at the Graduate Program in Public Policy (State University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil).His research interests included Italian Neofascism, focusing the neofascist and monarchist rights in Naples after the Second World War, led by the ship-owner and businessman Achille Lauro, a Berlusconi ante litteram. On these themes he wrote two books: Achille Lauro: un imprenditore politico dellItalia repubblicana (2008); La rinascita della destra. Il laboratorio sindacale-politico napoletano da Saló ad Achille Lauro (2013).His postdoctoral research was focused on the influence of Italian fascist corporatism in the social legislation of the Era Vargas. On this theme, he published articles and book chapters in Italy, Portugal, Brazil, and EUA. He is especially interested in the thought of Oliveira Vianna, a Brazilian sociologist and jurist, one of the first interpreters of Brazils colonial formation, apologist of the Vargas regime, and legal adviser to the Ministry of Labor, from 1932 to 1940. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)