Raffaele Bedarida teaches Contemporary Art History at Sapienza University of Rome. He studied at the University of Siena and received his PhD from the CUNY. His experience in the Departments of Adult and Academic Programs at MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2009–16) was fundamental to his approach to teaching. He has taught at CUNY, The New School, and Cooper Union (2013–24), where he was Associate Professor and directed the Art History program. His research focuses on cultural diplomacy, migration, artistic exchange between Italy and the United States, exhibition history, censorship, and propaganda from the Fascist period to the Cold War. His books include Corrado Cagli: La pittura, l’esilio, l’America (2018), Exhibiting Italian Art in the United States from Futurism to Arte Povera (2022), and Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today(with S. Hecker, 2023). He has held fellowships from CIMA, the Terra Foundation, the Italian Council, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. He is currently editing the catalogue raisonné of Francesco Di Cocco in collaboration with the Archivio Enrico Crispolti and with the support of the Edizioni Nazionali.