Guido Preparata

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Guido Giacomo Preparata was born 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in the United States, France, and Italy. He obtained a BS in Economics at the Libera University degli Studi Sociali (LUISS, Rome, Italy), an M-Phil in criminology at the University of Cambridge (UK), a Master's degree in Economics, and a PhD in Political Economy & Public Policy, both from the University of Southern California (USC, Los Angeles, USA).

Career

From 2000 to 2008 Preparata was an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Washington, USA. He worked as a research associate at the Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California), and the research division of Bank of Italy's Department of Supervision and Regulation.

In 2005, as a visiting professor of economics and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Jordan, in Amman, he conducted research on Political Islam, terrorism and Islamic economics. At present (2012) he serves as a lecturer in criminology at Kwantlen Polythechnic University in Vancouver, Canada.

Bibliography

Preparata is the author of:

  • Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America made the Third Reich (Pluto Press, 2005) ISBN
  • The Ideology of Tyranny: The Use of Neo-Gnostic Myth in American Politics, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) ISBN

Website

His website is a work of art and well worth a visit http://www.guidopreparata.com.