Chris Mingo is a PhD student in the History Department specializing in modern and contemporary European history. He is broadly interested in the histories of fascism, nationalism, and European imperialism, as well as political economy, and literary studies. His dissertation research examines Fascist Italy's parallel projects of imperial expansion and the development of a corporatist economy in the wake of the 1929 Wall Street crash. He investigates how Italy's new economic model and military success in Africa positioned fascism as a new and dynamic alternative to countries struggling to respond to the global economic downturn of the 1930s.

Mingo served as the convener of Cornell's European History Colloquium for the 2023-24 academic year. Before coming to Cornell, he worked as a research assistant on a project investigating the role of women in constructing Mussolini's Empire.