Francesco Cassata is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Genoa. He has written extensively on the history of racism, eugenics, genetics, and molecular biology. He serves on the Board of Directors of ComFas (the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies) and is co-founder, with Guri Schwarz, of CENTRA – the Centre for the History of Racism and Anti-racism in Modern Italy. He is author of Racism and Antisemitism in Fascist Italy: The Politics, Ideology, and Imagery of “La Difesa della razza” (2025), and Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy (CEU Press, 2011).