He successfully defended his PhD thesis on the Italian Military Occupation of France during the Second World War at the University of Waterloo, 2012. His book, Mussolini’s Army in the French Riviera, has been published in 2016 by University of Illinois Press and has been published in Italian, and a French edition is forthcoming. He is also the main editor along with Richard Carrier of a collective volume Italy and the Second World War: Alternative Perspectives (Brill Publishing, 2018). Aside from collaborating with the Italian Defense Ministry Historical Section and writing several essays on the First and Second World War, he has lectured at Italian, French and Canadian universities and at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto.