Newsletter: of The Society For Italian Historical Studies

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NEWSLETTER
of the Society for Italian Historical Studies
Number 55: 2017 Editor: Roy P. Domenico
OFFICERS:
Giovanna Benadusi, President
Marla Stone, Vice President
Roy Domenico, Executive Secretary-Treasurer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section

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1. Introduction 2
2. Minutes 3
3 Special Announcements 6
4. Conferences 14
5. Papers and Lectures 24
6. Publications 37
7. Awards, Honors, Fellowships, Grants 47
8. Promotions, Activities in Scholarly Societies 49
9. New Courses 49
10. Dissertations 52
11. Research and Writing Projects 54
12. Et cetera 58
13. Patrons 59
14. EMail Addresses 59
INTRODUCTION
Dear friend,
Here is your copy of the 2017 SIHS Newsletter. It’s a few weeks late but I’m happy to
have made it under the 2017 wire! I hope you find it interesting and useful. I always
appreciate any comment and advice regarding the Newsletter. If you have any, please
send them to me (roy.domenico@scranton.edu). Finally, here’s my annual pitch we’re
always looking for new members and if any prospects appear on your radar screen, please
use your considerable powers of persuasion to bring them into the SIHS fold. Finally, I
would like to add that we’ll be more than happy to include in the Newsletter any
announcements that you might have. We have modified our Questionnaire process. I
will continue to send out the questionnaire mainly to signal when we’ll begin compiling
the information for the next Newsletter. You can always return the completed
questionnaire to me if you wish although the new system – accessing it via our SIHS
website, facilitates everything. This was our inaugural year and we received fiftytwo
responses through the new system (and a few others with different means).
As always, I owe much to the help and input of a great many friends and colleagues. The
efforts of President Giovanna Benadusi and Vice President Marla Stone have been
extraordinary and of great value to us all. Brian Griffith has done a great job as our new
webmaster and deserves our gratitude and a round of applause. Richard Drake provided
great advice and support over the past year. Many thanks to Steve White who serves as
the SIHS representative to the 2018 Marraro Prize committee. Marla, Eileen Ryan and
Matt Vester serve as our 2018 Cappadocia Prize and Citation committee and we sincerely
thank them and particularly Ms. Helen Cappadocia for her generosity.

Roy Domenico
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MINUTES OF THE 2017 ANNUAL MEETING
Roy Domenico launched the SIHS business meeting at 6:30 on Friday, January 6, 2017 in
the Director's Row J room of the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. Mary Gibson
turned her position as president over to Giovanna Bonadusi who began her two-year
term. Marla Stone then assumed Giovanna’s title as vice president. Discussion turned to
membership and dues. Some noted that members often forget the last time they had paid
and consequently let things slide. It was decided to designate February as a general “dues
month” to provide a time when dues are collected. Of course members are encouraged to
pay when they can although February might serve as a handy facilitator for some. The
discussion then turned to committee tasks – colleagues were urged to chip in when they
see the opportunity – mainly for the work on prizes and organizing panels for the annual
meeting. The business meeting then turned to the pleasant job of announcing winners.
The SIHS awarded its 2017 Marraro Prize to Jesse M. Locker for his book,
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press,2015).
The citation: “Artemisia Gentileschi was strikingly successful as a female artist in an era
dominated by men, even though she received no formal schooling and was nearly
illiterate. Yet as Jesse Locke convincingly argues in his gracefully written and
meticulously documented study Artemesia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting, she
figured prominently within wider networks of Italian writers, poets, playwrights and
other intellectuals. Locker’s book deftly documents its subject’s reputation while
brilliantly evoking her life and oeuvre.” Congratulations Jesse and many thanks to our
representative to the Marraro committee, Richard Drake.
The AHA Marraro Prize went to Stefano Dall’Aglio for The Duke’s Assassin: Exile and
Death of Lorenzino de’ Medici, translated by Donald Weinstein (Yale University Press,
2015); and the ACHA Marraro Prize went to Andrew D. Berns, The Bible and Natural
Philosophy in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
The 2017 Cappadocia Prize for the best unpublished manuscript went to Hannah
Florence Marcus for “Banned Books: Medicine, readers, and Censors in Early Modern
Italy, 1559-1664.” Congratulations Hannah and many thanks to our Cappadocia/Citation
committee, Giovanna Benadusi, Dario Gaggi and Sarah Ross.
Here is the citation:
Hannah F. Marcus received her PhD in History from Stanford University in 2016. She
will join the Faculty of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University as
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an Assistant Professor in July 2017. Her manuscript “Banned Books: Medicine, readers,
and Censors in Early Modern Italy, 1559-1664,” examines the multiple connections that
existed between Catholic authorities and physicians to understand the complex
relationship between faith and knowledge in the Reformation age. Marcus is particularly
attentive to nuances, tensions and contradictions of the role of censorship in promoting
rather than stalling ideas about the value of scientific and philosophical books. She argues
that the Index of Prohibited Books, first published in 1559, assisted in the
professionalization of medicine. Catholic censorship of medical books in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries—Marcus writes-- was a form of promulgation that established
a community with recognized expertise and a discourse on utility that became a lasting
feature of scientific culture.” To support her compelling argument, Marcus has explored
an impressive number of Archives among which those of Florence, Bologna, Venice, and
Udine as well as the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, showing astonishing mastery of
primary sources and secondary literature.
Giovanna Benadusi (chair, SIHS Cappadocia Committee), Dario Gaggi, Sarah Ross
Finally, the SIHS recognized Victoria De Grazia for her scholarly accomplishments.
The citation reads: This year the Society wishes to acknowledge the scholarly
accomplishments of Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History at
Columbia University. Spanning four decades, de Grazia’s work has been a model for
generations of scholars eager to make the history of post-Unification Italy relevant to
broader concerns about modernity writ large. Her scholarship has not only broken new
ground by addressing previously neglected topics, but also offered a subtle and yet
powerful methodological approach to the study of social change across disciplinary and
geographical boundaries. By combining intellectual rigor and empathetic engagement,
Professor de Grazia has managed to rise above all the “turns” our profession has taken in
recent decades, charting a unique course that has remained both coherent and capacious.
Indeed, her work has set an enduring standard for the study of modern Italy by steering
clear of theoretical fads and facile categorizations.
Victoria de Grazia is first all an historian of Italian fascism. Her first book, The Culture of
Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (1981) grew out of a 1976
dissertation that this very Society awarded with a prize for the best unpublished
manuscript. This is the first systematic study of the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro, the
largest organization in fascist Italy and the model for similar ventures in interwar Europe,
including Nazi Germany’s Strength Through Joy. Breaking through the strictures of
institutional history, this study looks at Fascism in its complex and contradictory
dimensions, both from the perspective of the regime leaders and from that of a society
that accommodated some of the regime’s goals without ever completely losing its agency
and autonomy. In de Grazia’s hands, the organization of leisure becomes a prism through
which the regime’s blandishments and coercive acts are examined in their mundane and
yet sinister instantiations. By listening to a multitude of voices and following an
astonishing variety of trajectories, de Grazia is able to build towards a thoroughly
historical definition of Fascism, laid bare in its petty compromises and grotesque
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ambitions, without however dismissing the role of ideology and the power of mass
regimentation.
The same methodological subtlety and interpretative panache informed de Grazia’s

second major monograph, How Fascism Ruled Women (1992), a pioneering study of the
ways the regime buttressed traditional gender roles while acting as a modernizing force in
other contexts, not always intentionally. Here, too, Prof. de Grazia avoids easy
generalizations and charts a landscape of great complexity, shaped by class and
geographical distinctions that the regime failed to challenge in significant ways. And
here, too, she approaches social change from a holistic perspective, with a keen eye for
the revealing example and the concrete (and often contradictory) experience. At the
height of the “linguistic turn” in gender history, de Grazia wrote a book in which
discourse and materiality informed each other, crafting a kind of social history open to
the suggestions of cultural analysis but firmly rooted in the multifaceted experience of
historical actors. By the end of the century, decades of reflection on the contradictions
and aspirations of Fascism had made de Grazia one of the most visible and productive
experts on the history of interwar Italy. The crowning achievement of this trajectory was
perhaps her work as editor, with Sergio Luzzatto, of the Dizionario del Fascismo (2000),
a monumental volume with 660 entries by 180 international scholars.
Another major strand in de Grazia’s scholarship has dealt with the history of
consumption, viewed as a major terrain where the lures and contradictions of modernity
come in full relief. Her edited collection, The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in
Historical Perspective (1996) represented a pioneering intervention and remains an
influential contribution to this literature. Consumer culture and consumption practices
also play a crucial role in Irresistible Empire. America’s Advance through 20th-Century
Europe (2005), a monumental study of the ways Europeans have negotiated the rising
cultural and economic hegemony of the Unites States since World War One. Here, too, de
Grazia deftly weaves the specific, often told in vibrant detail, into general analytical
patterns that encompass socio-economic and cultural relations. The book’s narrative
sidesteps the discourses spun by the usual dozen intellectuals who tend to populate the
literature on anti-Americanism in favor of lived experiences and local meanings. This is
transnational history at its best, at once grounded in its empirical focus and daring in its
ability to explore connections and exchanges. Italy figures prominently in this book, as
one of the sites in which American artifacts and ways of life proved particularly alluring
and controversial.
Prof. de Grazia’s books have won several important prizes. Her research was supported
by many organizations, including the Guggenheim Foundation and the American
Academy in Rome. She has been a visiting scholar at many prestigious institutions, most
notably the European University Institute in Florence. She has also been a leader for the
profession at large, for example by chairing the Council for European Studies. Finally,
she has mentored many younger historians of modern Italy, several of whom are now
prominent scholars in the field. In sum, de Grazia’s career has been exemplary in its
scholarly depth and versatility, in its intellectual rigor and independence, and in its
generosity of spirit.
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Giovanna Benadusi (Chair, SIHS Citation Committee), Dario Gaggio, Sarah Ross
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE SIHS WEBSITE continues to expand and improve. Webmaster Brian Griffith
sends this news:
1. I want to expand the online research resources a bit further, so if anyone in our
membership has any suggestions for digitized sources on Italian history, have them send
those links to me in an email (brianjgriffith@umail.ucsb.edu) so I can post them to that
section of our website (http://www.italianhistoricalstudies.org/digitalresources.html).
2. If any members would like to contribute to our Italian History in the News section,
have them send me or Jesse Locker (locker@pdx.edu) an email, or they can tweet us
@ital_hist_stud or send us a message on Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/SocietyforItalianHistoricalStudies/).
3. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ital_hist_stud/) and Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/SocietyforItalianHistoricalStudies/)!
If you find an interesting piece of Italian news that perhaps has a history angle, please
consider submitting it to the new Italian History in the News page. If you are interested
in contributing in any way, or have links to digital resources that you would like featured
on the site, please contact the webmaster, Brian J Griffith of University of California,
Santa Barbara (brianjgriffith@umail.ucsb.edu)."
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From Paul Arpaia regarding H-ITALY: I am always looking for volunteers if you are
interested in working with me in setting up the new site; if you are willing to become a
book reviewer or serve on our Board, please contact me at arpaia@mail.h-net.msu.edu If
you would like more information about the H-Net Commons go to: http://networks.h-
net.org/node/905/pages/1427/h-net-commons-transition-faq
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Modern Italy, the journal of the UK's Association for the Study of Modern Italy
(ASMI), published by Cambridge University Press
General editors: Penelope Morris (University of Glasgow, UK), and Mark Seymour
(University of Otago,NewZealand).
Founded by the UK's Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) in 1995, Modern
Italy publishes leading research on the history, politics, and social, economic and cultural
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life of Italy and the Italian peoples from the eighteenth century to the present. All articles
are rigorously peerreviewed.
The journal also publishes themed special issues, recent examples of which are "Iconic
Images in Modern Italy: Politics, Culture and Society”, "History and Memory in Italian
Cinema” and "The Force of History: Modern Italian Historiography and the Legacy of
Christopher Duggan”.
Forthcoming special issues are "Gender and Sexualities in Contemporary Italy” and
"Nation and ‘Race': Racism and Antisemitism in Italy from Unification to the Republic”.
The editors warmly invite submissions from SIHS members. Please visit the journal’s
website for more details: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modernitaly
Modern Italy is listed in the ThomsonReuters Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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News on the Rialto is an annual publication designed to provide an informational

point of reference for scholars working on all aspects of Venetian Studies, including
political, economic, social, religious, artistic, architectural, musical and literary history of
the city, its overseas empire, and its mainland territories. Subscription is $10 per
year. Information is available online at http://www.newsontherialto.com, or from
Professor Eric Dursteler, 2129 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602.
The American Academy in Rome online application form for the Rome Prize
competition can be found on the Academy website at http://www.aarome.org/apply.
The American Academy in Rome is the oldest American overseas center for independent
study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities.
For one hundred years the Academy's eleven acre center in Rome has provided an
inspiring environment for those who practice the fine and liberal arts.
The Rome Prize is awarded annually to about thirty candidates, each selected by a jury of
distinguished peers through a national competition.
The winners are invited to Rome to pursue their work for periods ranging from six
months to two years. They are provided with stipends, residential accommodation,
meals, private studies or studios, and most important, an atmosphere conducive to
intellectual and artistic freedom, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovation.
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Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program

Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is a museum and research center that

promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture. The focus of the Wolfsonian
collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and
industrial and graphic design of the period 1885-1945. The collection includes works on
paper (including posters, prints and design drawings), furniture, paintings, sculpture, glass,
textiles, ceramics, lighting and other appliances, and many other kinds of objects. The
Wolfsonian’s library has approximately 50,000 rare books, periodicals, and ephemeral items.
The Wolfsonian’s collection is an important resource for the study of Italian culture and
politics in the first half of the twentieth century. The Wolfsonian holds an outstanding
collection of Italian Stile Floreale furniture and decorative art, as well as rare publications
that document Italian design of this period. The collection also has strong holdings of Futurist
decorative and graphic art, publications about Rationalist architecture, and exhibition
catalogs from the 1920s and 1930s. A number of significant journals – such as Domus,
Capitolium, Emporium, Casabella – complement these holdings.
Books, journals, fine art, posters, and other objects in the collection address key aspects of
the Fascist regime, including the Duce cult; Italian colonization of North Africa; the planning
of new towns; the celebration of aeronautic achievements; the autarchy campaign; youth and
student organizations; Romanità; and sports and fitness campaigns. The Wolfsonian also has
a substantial amount of Italian war propaganda, including an archive of propaganda material
produced under the Italian Social Republic.
Besides material from Italy, the Wolfsonian also has extensive holdings from the United
States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands. There are also smaller but significant
collections of materials from a number of other countries, including Austria, Czechoslovakia,
France, Japan, the former Soviet Union and Hungary.
Fellowships are intended to support full-time research, generally for a period of three to five
weeks. The program is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph.D. candidates, and
to others who have a significant record of professional achievement in relevant fields.
Applicants are encouraged to discuss their project with the Fellowship Coordinator prior to
submission to ensure the relevance of their proposals to the Wolfsonian’s collection.
The application page can be found at https://www.wolfsonian.org/research/fellowships/.
For information, please contact:
Fellowship Coordinator
The Wolfsonian-FIU
1001 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
305-535-2613 (phone)
305-531-2133 (fax)
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The University of Pennsylvania Italian Studies offers lectures and conferences in Italian
history. The spring, 2018 schedule can be accessed at
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/italians/center.
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William Connell reports from Seton Hall University: The Valente Italian Library at
Seton Hall University continues to seek donations of books in all areas of Italian and
Italian American history, culture and literature. In-kind donations of books are generally
tax deductible. Scholars are encouraged to visit. For more information, contact Bill
Connell (william.connell@shu.edu).
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UNICO National Scholarship Offerings 2018-2019:

Undergraduate Awards
Major Don S. Gentile Scholarship Alphonse A. Miele Scholarship
William C. Davini Scholarship Theodore Mazza Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant four scholarships valued at $6,000 to high school
seniors who will be attending, full-time, an accredited campus based college/university
program in the United States; paid out at $1,500 per school year up to a maximum of 4
years. A candidate must be a United States citizen of Italian descent. Candidates are
encouraged to apply for all four scholarships.
Sergeant John Basilone Memorial Graduate Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant up to a maximum of $6,000, paid out at $1,500 per
year, for a graduate scholarship. The awardee must be initiating graduate study, full-time,
at an accredited campus based college/university program in the United States. A
candidate must be a United States citizen of Italian descent.
Dr. Benjamin Cottone Memorial Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant a $5,000 scholarship, paid on award, to a student
pursuing a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy degree at an accredited medical school
in the United States. A candidate must be a United States citizen of Italian descent.
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Bernard and Carolyn Torraco Memorial Nursing Scholarships
The UNICO Foundation will provide up to ten grants, valued at $2,500 each, paid on
award, to students attending accredited prelicensure or graduate nursing programs in the
United States. Consideration is given to applicants demonstrating financial need. A
candidate must be a United States citizen. This program is open to nursing students of all
ethnicities.
Ella T. Grasso Literary Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will provide two literary scholarships, valued at $1,000 each.
Application for this program is open to matriculated college students. Terms of
submission require the candidate to submit an original short story or essay celebrating
their Italian heritage.
DiMattio Celli Family Study Abroad Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships, valued at $1,250 each, for study in
Italy. Candidates must be currently attending, full-time, an accredited college or
university in the United States, pursuing a degree. The study abroad program must be
eligible for credit by the student’s college/university. An applicant must be a United
States citizen of Italian descent.
Guglielmo Marconi Engineering Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant a scholarship valued at $1,250 paid on award to a
sophomore, junior or senior student currently attending, full-time, an accredited campus
based college/university program in the United States majoring in engineering. An
applicant must be a United States citizen of Italian descent.
Robert J. Tarte Scholarship for Italian Studies - Temporarily Suspended
Ralph J. Torraco Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships, valued at $2,500 each, to students
currently attending, full-time, an accredited campus based college/university program in
the United States pursuing a degree. A nominee must hold United States citizenship. This
program is open to applicants of all ethnicities.
Louise Torraco Memorial Scholarship for Science
the United States pursuing study of the Physical Sciences or Life Sciences. A nominee
must hold United States citizenship. This program is open to applicants of all ethnicities.
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Ralph J. Torraco Fine Arts Scholarship
currently attending, full-time, an accredited, campus based college/university program in
the United States pursuing a degree in the Fine Arts. A nominee must hold United States
citizenship. This program is open to applicants of all ethnicities.
Maria and Paolo Alessio Southern Italy Scholarship
The UNICO Foundation will provide a scholarship, valued at $2,500 to a student

the United States pursuing a degree. An applicant must be a United States citizen of
Southern Italian descent, specifically including the regions of: Abruzzo, Basilicata,
Campania, Calabria, Latium, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicilia.
Inserra Scholarships
The UNICO Foundation will grant two scholarships valued at $2,500 each to students
currently attending, full time, an accredited campus based college/university in the
United States pursuing a degree. A candidate must be an American citizen of Italian
descent.
Eleanor and Anthony De Francis Scholarship Fund for Natural Sciences
California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The School of

Astronomical Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson
UNICO Foundation will grant scholarships valued in the range of $2,500 to $10,000 to
fully-matriculating students currently attending, full time, one of the above listed
universities majoring in the Natural Sciences. The candidate must be at least eighteen
years of age and a natural born United States citizen of Italian ancestry, having at least
one parent of Italian descent.
A nominee must reside in the home state of an active UNICO Chapter, unless otherwise
indicated. Candidates MUST meet the eligibility requirements stated on each of the
respective applications. Applications may be acquired and submitted online.
For further information on Scholarships, please contact the UNICO National Scholarship
Director, Joan Tidona at jntidona@unico.org . To find a local Chapter, please visit
http://unico.org/search.asp or contact UNICO National at 973.808.0035.
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The Barbieri Endowment awards an annual grant to a United States citizen to

conduct research in Italy.
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 Amount: $7,500.
 Subject: Modern Italian history in any genre.
 Application: (1) Research proposal (1,000 words). (2)
Schedule, itinerary, and budget (one page). (3) CV. NB: No
letters of reference.
 Submission: Send application as a .doc, .rtf, or .pdf file by
email to John Alcorn (program director) at
john.alcorn@trincoll.edu
 Deadline: March 1st.
 Decision: May 1st.
 Disbursement: July 1st.
The grant is awarded by a committee convened and chaired by Borden W. Painter, Jr.
(honorary president of the Barbieri Endowment and professor emeritus of history),
founder of the grant; or by the executive committee of the Barbieri Endowment with
assistance by experts on specific topics in the grant proposals.
As a condition of the grant, the recipient may be required to present his or her research
findings in a public lecture at Trinity College in the following year. The Barbieri
Endowment will fund travel and provide hospitality for the lecture.
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The Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA and the John Rylands
Research Institute are offering the opportunity to apply for a two month joint
research fellowship. The fellowship will provide two months of support, one for work at
the John Rylands Library and one for work at the Newberry Library in Chicago. The
proposed project must link the collections of both libraries; applicants should plan to hold
the two fellowships sequentially to ensure continuity of research.
All application materials should be submitted to the Newberry, but applications will be
reviewed by both institutions. The stipend will be $2,500 per month at the Newberry,
£1,500 at the John Rylands Library, plus an additional $1,000 (or the equivalent in
English pounds) for travel. Follow the link below for further information.
http://www.jrri.manchester.ac.uk/opportunities/newberry/
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The Villa I Tatti fellowships – application deadlines should be November of 2018:
I Tatti offers Fellows the precious time they need to pursue their studies with a minimum
of obligations and interruptions together with a maximum of scholarly resources, a
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combination that distinguishes the Harvard Center from most others. In order to foster a
collaborative spirit, Fellows are expected to live in the Florence area and to spend at least
three days a week at the center. Lunch and tea are served each weekday, and the I Tatti
community takes shape over these convivial occasions. Rather than present a traditional
paper at the end of the year, Fellows give informal presentations in the late fall or winter.
This provides an opportunity to explore problems and questions and receive valuable
feedback from other members of the community during the extended discussion period.
Each year a limited number of activities are reserved for the Fellows, and they join the
wider community at conferences, lectures, and concerts. Note: a candidate can apply for
only one type of fellowship at a time. Short-Term Fellowships at I Tatti can be held only
once, and priority will be given to applicants with no previous association with the
Harvard Center. For more information: http://web-
archive.itatti.harvard.edu/research/fellowships
I Tatti Fellowships
Fifteen I Tatti Fellowships, each for twelve months, are available each academic year for
post doctorate research in any aspect of the Italian Renaissance.
Mellon Fellowships
A limited number of Mellon Fellowships, for periods ranging from three to six months,
are available each academic year for advanced research in any aspect of the Italian
Renaissance. This Fellowship is designed to reach out to Italian Renaissance scholars
from areas that have been under-represented at I Tatti especially those living and working
in Asia, Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean basin (except Italy
and France) and the Islamic countries.
Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowships
A limited number of Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowships, each for three months, are available
each academic year for advanced research in any aspect of the Italian Renaissance. The
Fellowship is designed for scholars who do not have the benefit of sabbatical leave. This
group includes curators, administrators, and conservators, and librarians.
David and Julie Tobey Fellowship
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One David and Julie Tobey Fellowship is awarded annually to support research on
drawings, prints, and illustrated manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance, and especially
the role that these works played in the creative process, the history of taste and collecting,
and questions of connoisseurship.
I Tatti-RCAC Joint Fellowship
Villa I Tatti and the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations of Koç University
(RCAC, in Istanbul) offer a joint, one-year fellowship. Scholars will spend a semester at
each institution to carry out research on interaction between Italy and the Byzantine or
the Ottoman Empire (ca. 1300 to ca. 1700). Subjects covered include art, architecture,
archaeology, history, literature, material culture, music, philosophy, religion, and science.
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) offers a small number of Frederick
Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars engaged in long-term,
unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Burkhardt
Fellowships are intended to support an academic year (normally nine months) of
residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the
program, including I Tatti.
Graduate Fellowships
Each fall and spring semester, one or two Graduate Fellowships are available for Harvard
PhD students. The primary goal is to allow students working on their dissertation or
selecting their topics to read widely in Renaissance sources and secondary literature.
CONFERENCES
2017 SIHS/AHA MEETING IN DENVER
The Society contributed four panels to the annual meeting:
1. Sex, Violence, and Honor in Modern Italy (co-sponsored with the AHA)
Chair: Mary S. Gibson, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Papers: Honorable Murder: The Delitto d’Onore and the Zanardelli Code of 1890
Steven Hughes, Loyola University Maryland
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The Crime of Honor: An Italian Story

Ernesto De Cristofaro, University of Catania
Legalized Rape and Beyond: The “Fuitina” Tradition in Sicily
Antonella Vitale, City University of New York
Comment: Mary S. Gibson
2. Communism and Anticommunism in 20th-Century Italy

Chair: Steven F. White, Mount Saint Mary’s University
Papers: The Other Church: Communist Liturgy and Religious Symbolism in the Cinema
of the Italian Communist Party, 1947–56
Gianluca Fantoni, Nottingham Trent University
Evolution of an Anticommunist: Alcide De Gasperi, 1943–53
Steven F. White
The Myth of the Soviet Union among Peasant Communities in Southern Italy, 1943–45
Rosario Forlenza, Columbia University
The Vatican’s Anticommunist Crusade
Giuliana Chamedes, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Comment: Roy Domenico, Society for Italian Historical Studies
3. Post-Fascism and Post-Empire: Rebuilding Italy in the Wake of World War II

Chair: Giuliana Chamedes
Papers: Refugees of Empire: The Ministry of Italian Africa in the Process of
Decolonization
Eileen Ryan, Temple University
The Space of Resistance: Italian Liberals and Catholic Antifascists in Exile
Or Rosenboim, University of Cambridge
The Catholic University Federation (FUCI) and the Path to Post-Fascism, 1943–45
Jorge Dagnino, Universidad de los Andes
Comment: Giuliana Chamedes, University of Wisconsin–Madison
4. Economies of Trust in 16th- and 17th-Century Italy: A Panel in Honor of

Donald Weinstein
Chair: Caroline F. Castiglione, Brown University
Papers: Who Could You Trust in Renaissance Italy?
Edward W. Muir, Northwestern University
Trust Misplaced: Fraud and Failure in the Renaissance Marketplace
Nicholas Scott Baker, Macquarie University
Creating Trust, Producing Knowledge in 17th-Century Italy
Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida, Tampa
Comment: Audience
SIHS PROGRAM AT THE 2018 AHA MEETING IN

WASHINGTON, D.C.
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The Program committee for the January 2018 meeting was chaired by Marie Ito who
did an outstanding job. We’ll need a new Program Chair for the 2019 meeting in
Chicago – any volunteers?
Fascist Legacies: The Afterlife of Fascism in

Italy and Beyond
AHA Session 20
Society for Italian Historical Studies 1
Thursday, January 4, 2018: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Maryland Suite C (Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level)
Chair: Pamela L. Ballinger, University of Michigan
Papers:
Borrowing from Mussolini: Nazi Germany’s Colonial Aspirations in the
Shadow of Italian Colonialism
Patrick Bernhard, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung
From Empire to International Development: Fascism, Italian
Colonialism, and the International Institute of Agriculture
Angelo Caglioti, University of California, Berkeley
Resisting Decolonization: Italian Imperialism in the Second World War
Eileen Ryan, Temple University
The Fascist Era Strikes Back: Mussolini’s Ministers in Postwar Politics
Rhiannon Evangelista, Georgia State University Perimeter College
Comment: Pamela L. Ballinger, University of Michigan
Politics, Culture, and Identity in 20th-Century

Italy
Thursday, January 4, 2018: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Wilson Room A (Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level)
Chair: Caroline Merithew, University of Dayton
Papers:
“In America è Vietato Essere Brutte”: Advertising American Beauty in
the Italian Women’s Magazine Annabella, 1945–65
Jessica Lynne Harris, University of California, Los Angeles
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An All-Consuming Nationalism: Winemaking, Consumer Culture, and

National Identity in Mussolini's Italy
Brian J. Griffith, University of California, Santa Barbara
Newsreeling the Empire: Fascist Mass Cinematography and the
Ethiopian War, 1935–41
Gianmarco Mancosu, University of Warwick
Reeducating Italians: The War Department and the Public Debates
about Race and Backwardness Surrounding the Employment of Italian
Prisoners of War in the United States during WWII
Giulio Salvati, New York University
Comment: Caroline Merithew, University of Dayton
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5
Out of the Shadows: Industry and Its Social

Ramifications in Northern Italy, 16th–18th
Centuries
Economic History Association 2
Friday, January 5, 2018: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Columbia 3 (Washington Hilton, Terrace Level)
Chair: Colin Rose, Brock University
Papers:
Consumption and Luxury Goods in the Venetian State, 16th–18th
Centuries
Salvatore Ciriacono, University of Padua
Work-Discipline and Proto-Factories: Orphanages and the Textile
Industry in Early Modern Padua, 17th–18th Centuries
Andrea Caracausi, University of Padua
Death Control in the West: New Research on Routine Infanticide in
Northern Italy, 16th–18th Centuries
Gregory Hanlon, Dalhousie University
Comment: Stefano D'Amico, Texas Technological University
Religion, State and Cultural Practices, and the

Racialization of the Nation in Italy from Fascism
to the Republic
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Friday, January 5, 2018: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Chair: Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University
Papers:
Catholicism, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Making of War Culture in
Fascist Italy
Robert A. Ventresca, King's University College at Western University;
Nicholas Virtue, King's University College at Western University
Within and Outside the Nation: Former Colonial Subjects in Postwar
Italy
Valeria Deplano, University of Cagliari
Beauty That Matters: White Gaze and Black Female Bodies in the
Italian Cinema of the 1970s
Gaia Giuliani, University of Coimbra
Comment: Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University
Love, Sex, and Honor in the Italian South

Friday, January 5, 2018: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Chair: Steven Hughes, Loyola University Maryland

Papers:
Infanticide and Emigration: Honor and the Women Who Remained
Behind
Victoria Calabrese, The Graduate Center of the City University of
New York
The Honor of the Southern Woman: Il Mezzogiorno, 1945 to the
Present
Antonella Vitale, The Graduate Center of the City University of New
York
Masculinities: Honor and Sexual Status in Homosexual Sex Work
Cirus Rinaldi, University of Palermo
Comment: Steven Hughes, Loyola University Maryland
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6
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Life on the Streets: Regulating Space and

Sociability in Early Modern Italy
AHA Session 166
Saturday, January 6, 2018: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Chair: Bernard D. Cooperman, University of Maryland, College Park
Papers:
Gambling and Male Sociability in the Streets of Early Modern Rome
John M. Hunt, Utah Valley University
“Dishonest Words, Noises, and Extraordinary Shouting”: Mapping
Sound in Early Modern Florence
Julia Rombough, University of Toronto
Work, Play, and Violence in the Streets of Early Modern Bologna
Colin Rose, Brock University
Comment: The Audience
Religion and Authority in Medieval and

Renaissance Italy, Part 1: The Challenge of
Sanctity
Saturday, January 6, 2018: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Lincoln East (Washington Hilton, Concourse Level)
Chair: Daniel Bornstein, Washington University in St. Louis
Papers:
Teuzo of Florence, Urban Hermit
Kathryn L. Jasper, Illinois State University
Materializing the Spiritual Core: Italo-Greek Hagiography and the
Construction of Sainthood
Kalina Yamboliev, University of California, Santa Barbara
False Sanctity and Discipleship in Early Modern Italy: Women and Their
Claims to Spiritual Authority
Mary Andino, Washington University in St. Louis
Comment: Carol Lansing, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Renaissance Italy, Part 2: Rome and the Papal
State
Saturday, January 6, 2018: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Papers:
The Day the Emperor Became Podestà: Power and Authority in a 14th-
Century Italian Commune
Luca Roberto Foti, Washington University in St. Louis
Roman Baroni, Religion, and Power in Late Medieval Italy
Emily Graham, Oklahoma State University
The Other Fall of Rome: Piety and Governance in the Late 14th Century
James A. Palmer, Florida State University
Comment: Maureen C. Miller, University of California, Berkeley

Renaissance Italy, Part 3: Devotion and
Discipline
Saturday, January 6, 2018: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Papers:
Bar Brawls: Clergy, Their Superiors, and Tavern-Keeping in the Later
Middle Ages
Roisin A. Cossar, University of Manitoba
A Hierarchy of Shrines: Creating an Ecclesiastical Model for New
Religious Movements, 1400–60
Bianca Lopez, Southern Methodist University
“Wicked Books, Full of Lies, Trickery, and Heresy”: Pietro Paolo
Vergerio’s Attack on Marian Devotional Books and the Struggle for
Religious Authority in Early Modern Italy
David M. D'Andrea, Oklahoma State University
Comment: Daniel Bornstein, Washington University in St. Louis
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SIHS Business Meeting

Society for Italian Historical Studies
Wilson Room C (Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level)
SIHS Social Hour

Society for Italian Historical Studies
Harding Room (Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 7
Political Catholicism and Christian Democracy

in Modern Italy
Sunday, January 7, 2018: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Thurgood Marshall South (Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level)
Chair: Roy Domenico, University of Scranton
Papers:
Christian Democracy and the Sacralization of Politics in Republican
Italy
Paolo Acanfora, Istituto don Luigi Sturzo
Catholics and the Constitutions: A Comparison between J.C. Murray
and Giuseppe Dossetti in Postwar Catholicism
Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University
Rethinking Christian Democracy: Transcendence as Transformation—
Italian Politics, 1930–50
Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University; Rosario Forlenza, New York
University
Italy’s Odd Couple: Alcide De Gasperi, Pietro Nenni, and the Founding
of the Italian Republic
Steven F. White, Mount Saint Mary's University
Comment: The Audience
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Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies: 2016-

2017 Season:
Please direct any inquiries to the Chair of the Seminar, Dr. Ernest Ialongo at
eialongo@hostos.cuny.edu.
September 9, 2016
Carl Ipsen, Indiana University, “Fumo: Italy’s Love Affair with the Cigarette.”
Respondent: Molly Tambor, Long Island University, Post
October 14, 2016

Meriel Tulante, Philadelphia University, “Fashion in the commedia all’italiana: An
Uncomfortable Aspiration.”
Respondent: Stefania Benini, Philadelphia University
November 11, 2016

Lucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles, “Immigrant Writing and the Power of
Fear.”
Respondent: Teresa Fiore, Montclair State University
December 9, 2016
Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan, “The Divo and the Duce: Illusions of Direct
Democracy in 1920s Celebrity Culture.”
Respondent: Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
February 3, 2017
Nina Valbousquet, Center for Jewish History, NYC, “The Catholic Church, Jewish
Identity, and the Forging of Antisemitism in Fascist Italy (1922-1943).”
Respondent: Natalia Indrimi, Primo Levi Center
March 3, 2017
Jonathan Mekinda, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Building the ‘House of Man’:
Design and the Modern Home in Milan, 1933-1957.”
Respondent: Emily Braun, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
April 7, 2017
Lilith Mahmud, University of California, Irvine, “Freemasonry’s Secret: Gender,
Nationalism, and Conspiracy Theorizing in Italy.”
Respondent: Jane Schneider, The Graduate Center, CUNY
May 12, 2017

Alessandro Saluppo, Fordham University, “Paramilitary Violence and Fascism: Violent
Imaginaries and Violent Practices of Squadrismo, 1921-1925.”
Respondent: Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University
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Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies: 2017-
2018 Season:
Please direct any inquiries to the Chair of the Seminar, Dr. Ernest Ialongo at
eialongo@hostos.cuny.edu.
September 8, 2017
Mary Ann Carolan, Fairfield University, “Watching in Color: The Reception of Black
American Films in Italy.”
Respondent: Rhiannon Welch, Rutgers University
October 13, 2017

David Ward, Wellesley College, “Politics and the Postmodern in Contemporary Italian
Literature and Criticism.”
Respondent: Peter Carravetta, Stony Brook University
November 10, 2017

Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University, “The Color of the Republic: On Racism and Anti-
Racism in Italy, c. 1960-1980.”
Respondent: Nelson Moe, Barnard College
December 8, 2017
Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh, “Charting the Island in Fascist Italy: Sicilian
Belonging Between Race and Empire.”
Respondent: Jane Schneider, The Graduate Center, CUNY
February 2, 2018
Luca Fenoglio, Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of
Leicester, “Fascists: The Italian Leadership and the Nazi Extermination of the Jews.”
Respondent: TBD
*Co-sponsored by the Primo Levi Center, New York City
March 2, 2018
Laura Cecchini, Colgate University, “Armando Brasini and Neo-Baroque Architecture in
the 1930s: The Politics of Style in the Construction of Modern Italian Identity.”
Respondent: Emily Braun, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
April 13, 2018

Alessandra Montalbano, University of Alabama, “Ransom Kidnapping in Modern Italy:
Victims, State, and Media.”
Respondent: David Forgacs, New York University
May 4, 2018
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Anthony Tamburri, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and Queens College,
“Expanding Diasporic Identity: A Multi-Directional Path to the New ‘Italian’ Writer.”
Respondent: Fred Gardaphé, Queens College and the John D. Calandra Italian American
Institute
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The Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute at Seton Hall University
offers an annual series of lectures and events. The Institute hosted the following during
the FALL OF 2017:
Tuesday, September 26: Chancellor’s Suite Book Presentation — “The Routledge

History of Italian Americans” William Connell and Stan Pugliese, Hofstra
University
Monday, October 16: Lecture by Giuseppe Catozzella, Italian Author and Alberto
Institute Visiting Scholar
Tuesday, December 5: Concert performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
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Stanislao Pugliese, Professor of History and the Queensboro Unico Distinguished

Professor of Italian Studies directs the Italian American Experience Lecture Series at
Hofstra University.
The fall, 2017 program:
Tuesday, October 31, 7 p.m.

Italian American Studies After 50 Years
Speaker: Dr. Salvatore LaGumina
Professor Emeritus of History,
Nassau Community College, SUNY
Tuesday, November 14, 7 p.m.

Why Italian Americans Need a New History
Speaker: Dr. William J. Connell
Professor of History and Joseph and Geraldine LaMotta Chair in Italian
Studies
Seton Hall University
Tuesday, November 21, 7 p.m.

The Future of Our Past
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Speaker: Dr. Stanislao G. Pugliese

Professor of History and Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of
Italian and Italian American Studies
Hofstra University

PAPERS AND LECTURES
ALLISON SCARDINO BELZER: Italian Women in Uniform during World War I,

American Historical Association, Washington, DC (Jan 2018).
GIOVANNA BENADUSI: “Reading as Political Practice: The Eclectic Library of a

Grand Duchess in the Baroque Age,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, March
2017.
“Creating Trust, Producing Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Italy,” American

Historical Association, Denver (CO), January 2017.
LYN BLANCHFIELD: "The Arrabbiati of Late Medieval Florence: Rage and the
Creation of Political Identity" Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for the Medieval
Mediterranean, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium July 2017.
DANIEL BORNSTEIN: Round table discussant, “In Memory of Donald Weinstein II:
Religion and Society in Renaissance Italy”; Renaissance Society of America annual
meeting; Chicago, 2017.
CHRISTOPHER CARLSMITH: “Learning Abroad: International Student Colleges in

Italy, 1400-1700”. David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young
University, Provo, UT (15 March 2017).
“Student Colleges in Italy.” Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA (1 Feb. 2017).
“From Near and Far: Student Colleges in Early Modern Rome.” Renaissance Society of
America annual meeting, Chicago, IL (March 2017).
“’Rioni di Roma’: Peopling the Eternal City ca. 1500-1650.” Roundtable at Renaissance
Society of America annual meeting, Boston, MA (April 2016).
ROBERT CLINES: “The Converting Sea: Wrestling with Crisis and Change in the
Early Modern Mediterranean World,” The American Academy in Rome, Rome (spring
2017).
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“‘He is Obliged to be Made Turk or be Burned’: Defending the Faith against Apostasy in
Early Modern Mediterranean Jewry,” Warwick in Venice Annual Conference, Venice (fall
2016).
“‘Relics of the Ancient Hermits’: Locating Catholic Renewal in Jesuit Descriptions of

Mount Lebanon,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (spring
2016).
THOMAS COHEN: chair, session “Re-Forming Materialities” at Toronto Renaissance
and Reformation Colloquium conference “On the Peripheries of the Reformation,” at the
University of Toronto, October 21-22, 2016.
chair, session, "Gender, Legal systems and Social Reintegration in Late Medieval an
Early Modern Jewish Communities,: RSA, Chicago, 30 March 2017.
keynote: "Captain Ottavio's Unruly Picnic: Why Microhistory is Such Fun," McMaster
University Graduate conference "Crossroads and Turning Points," McMaster University,
13 May 2017.
"Furto di Nano: The Case of the Purloined Dwarf," Early Modern Rome Three
Conference, Rome and Bracciano, 6 October, 2017.
KATHLEEN COMERFORD: “Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project,” presented with

Kyle Roberts (Loyola University of Chicago), Jesuit Studies Roundtable, Loyola
University of Chicago, 2017.
“Vernacular Texts in Northern Jesuit College Library Collections,” Renaissance Society

of America, Chicago, 2017.
“Serenissima Signora: Letters to Maria Maddalena from Muzio Vitelleschi,” Bruges,

Belgium, 2016.
WILLIAM CONNELL: “When did Italian American History begin?” American Italian
Sociohistorical Association, University College Cork, Ireland, 30 July 2017.
Chair and Respondent, “New Directions in Savonarola Studies: In Memory of Donald

Weinstein,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, 1 April 2017.
“A Fresh Look at Erasmus on Free Will,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, 30

March 2017.
“Stranieri e Stato nella Toscana Fiorentina del Secolo XV,” at the conference
“Appartenere alla città: cittadini e cittadinanza dall’età comunale all’Ottocento,” Pistoia,
18 March 2017.
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GEORGE DAMERON: “Feeding the Medieval Italian City-State,” presented at the

second annual Vermont Medieval Midsummer Summit, Marlboro College (August 7,
2014).
“Identifying a Killer by Cracking the Teeth of the Dead: Recent Scientific and Historical
Research into the Nature of the Black Death,” at the second triennial conference of the
American Boccaccio Association, October 4, 2013 (Georgetown University, Washington,
D. C.).
Invited lecturer, “Florence at the Time of Dante and Giotto,” The Art Gallery of Ontario
(Toronto), June 4, 2013 (invited public lecture to accompany exhibition).
"Famine or Dearth? The Language of Hunger in Tuscan Chronicles, 1150-1350,” New

College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 8-10 (specific date of
presentation yet to be determined), 2018 (Sarasota, Florida).
"Public Expenditure and War as Economic Stimulus in the Tuscan Communes, c. 1100-c.
1350," New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 12, 2016;
Sarasota, Florida.
“The Political Economy of Grain in the Tuscan City-State, 1200-1350,” Annual Meeting
of the Medieval Academy of America (Knoxville, Tennessee); April 4, 2013.
STEFANO D’AMICO: “Resilience and Flexibility: Merchants, Guilds and Workers in

Seventeenth-Century Milan,” Renaissance Society Conference, Berlin, Germany, March
26-28, 2015.
“Crisis and Transformation: New Perspectives on the Economy of Spanish Lombardy

(1500-1700),” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, March 27-
29, 2014.
“Social Groups, Political Power and Urban Space in Spanish Milan,” Sixteenth Century
Society Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 24-27, 2013.
“A Forgotten City: Spanish Milan,” Renaissance Society Conference, San Diego, April 4-
7, 2013.
“The Governor, the Bishop and the Merchant: The Cathedral Square and the Use of
Urban Space in Spanish Milan,” Cities and Empire in the Early Modern Spanish
Habsburg World, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, Los Angeles, March 1-
2, 2013.
SPENCER DI SCALA: "Issues on US-Italy Relations up to World War I and its

Aftermath," Alfred F. Mannella and Rose T. Lauria-Mannella Endowed Distinguished
Speaker Series lecture.
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RHIANNON EVANGELISTA: Twenty-Third International Conference of Europeanists,

Philadelphia, PA (Spring 2016). Paper: “Fascists in a Post-Fascist World: Ex-Elites
Negotiate Belonging in Democratic Italy, 1945-1960.” Panel Co-organizer: Resilience in
Reconstruction: History and Identity in Postwar Italy.
JOANNE FERRARO: (2017) “Scandalous Women in Early Modern Venice.” Annual

Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Chicago. March 31.
(2016) “Venice. History of the Floating City.” Wofford College, Spartanberg, South
Carolina, October 24.
(2016) Conference: Unrest in Venice. Popular Politics in an Aristocratic Republic.

Venice. Venice International University, Sponsored by Venice International University
University of Amsterdam LabEx SMS/Université de Toulouse Humanities Research
Centre, University of Warwick Renaissance Studies, University of Warwick Fritz Thyssen
Foundation. October 7.
(2016) Respondent “Disorder and Popular Politics in Renaissance Venice. Actions and
Representation.” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston, March
31.
(2016) “Venice and the Mediterranean World,” Annual Meeting, The American Historical
Association, January 7.
PAUL GARFINKEL: In Spring 2017, I gave a series of public talks on my recent book
at several Italian university law faculties and at the British School at Rome.
MARY GIBSON: “The Contribution of Nicole Hahn Rafter to Lombroso Studies,”

American Society of Criminology, 2016.
“Science, Anthropology, and Crime in Liberal Italy,” SUNY Stoneybrook, 2016.
“Transnational Prison Histories: Including the Excluded,” Keynote Panel, Conference on

“The History of Confinement in Global Perspective, Late Eighteenth to the Early
Twentieth Century,” University of Bern (Switzerland), 2016.
“The Gendering of Punishment in Modern Italy,” Advanced Research Collaborative,

CUNY Graduate Center, 2016.
“Is Punishment Gendered? The Case of Modern Italy,” American Historical Association,
2016.
Panelist, Book presentation of Patrizia Guarnieri, Italian Psychology and Jewish

Emigration under Fascism, Italian Cultural Institute, New York City, 2016.
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PAUL GRENDLER: "After Luther: Freedom and Censorship in Medicine and

Education." Plenary address at “Luther in Italy: Reform and Reaction in the Italian
Book World.” International Conference in Rome, 22-24 February 2017.
BRIAN GRIFFITH: "The Making of a National Beverage: Winemaking, Temperance,

and Identity Construction in Fascist Italy," Keynote Presentation, History Graduate
Students Association Annual Conference, April 15 2017, San Francisco State University.
MAURA HAMETZ: “Perpetrators or Victims?: Dangerous Women and Mussolini's

Special Tribunal, 1927-1943,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders
and Sexualities, Hofstra University, NY, 2 June 2017.
“Forgotten by the nation: stateless women in the Adriatic provinces, 1918-1922,” Gender,
citizenship and subjectivity in revolutionary Ireland and Europe, 1917-c.1922, Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland, 26 May 2017.
“‘I had a lovely city’: Reflections on the Port Jews of Trieste in the Poetry of Umberto
Saba,” Representations of the Port Jew: A Conference in Memory of David Cesarani, the
AHRB Parkes Centre, University of Southampton in association with the Kaplan Centre
for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town, Southampton, UK, 23 May
2017.
“Claiming Italian Citizenship: Women in the Adriatic Provinces, 1918-1926,” Works in

Progress Conference of Regional Women’s Studies, Old Dominion University, Norfolk,
VA, 1 April 2017.
“Central European Trieste: Presnitz in the piazza, Sissi in the Square,” John Franklin
Hope Center for European Studies, Duke University, North Carolina, 22 March 2017.
“Sissi Set in Stone: Monuments to the Habsburg Empress,” Austrian Studies Association
Conference, University of Illinois-Chicago, 17 March 2017.
“Tranquil populations of the Carso: Italians, ‘Slavs,’ and Others in the Borderland,”
Transnational Italies: Mobility, Subjectivities and Modern Italian Cultures, Arts and
Humanities Research Council (UK), Transnationalizing Modern Languages Project,
British School in Rome, Italy, 26 October 2016.
“Stateless in Italy: The Citizenship Committee in Trieste, 1922-1936,” Modern Europe

Workshop, University of Naples -- Federico II, Naples, Italy, 25 October 2016.
“Shards of Empire: Subjects and Citizens in Italy's Adriatic Provinces,” Symposium in

Honor of Gary Cohen, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, 30 September 2016.
“The Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste and Italian National Memory,” The Holocaust: A
Turning Point?, Bar Ilan University, Council for European Studies at Duke, Institut
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religions, cultures, modernité (IRCM) at the University of Lausanne and Yad Vashem
International Institute for Holocaust Research, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 14-16 June
2016.
GREGORY HANLON: 'Le controle des deces en Occident moderne: du nouveau sur
l'infanticide de routine en Italie du Nord, 16-18e siecles', seminaire des recherches sur
l'histoire de la famille, Universite de Paris IV - Sorbonne, mai 2017.
'Death control in the West: new research on routine infanticide in northern Italy', SIHS
panel, Washington D.C. January 2018.
ELIZABETH HORODOWICH: “Amerasia in the European Imaginary,” with

Alexander Nagel, Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization,
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, April 29 2017.
Organizer and Chair of Panel “Malleable Geographies,” The Renaissance Society of

America, Chicago IL, March 30 2017.
“Amerasia: A Renaissance Discovery,” with Alexander Nagel, Department of Latin

American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University, September 27 2016.
Roundtable Participant, “The Globalization of Renaissance Art,” Manhattan College,

January 29 2016.
“Imagining the New World in Early Modern Venice: Wall Maps, America, and Venetian
Cosmographic Imagination,” The Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium, Italian
Department, Columbia University, February 28 2016.
MARIE ITO: "The 'Other' Orsanmichele: The Development of a Florentine Civic,
Commercial, and Religious Space, and its Loggias, before 1337," International Medieval
Congress, University of Leeds, UK, July 2017.
"Orsanmichele: A Florentine Civic, Commercial, and Religious Space, and its Loggias, to
1337," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May
2017.
"Urban Economies of the Fourteenth Century," panel moderator. 52nd International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2017.
KATHERINE JANSEN: Public Lecture, “Peace & Penance in Late Medieval Italy,”
Yale University (28 Feb. 2017).
“The Body, Gesture & Ritual: the Kiss of Peace in the Italian Communes”
“The Body and the City, 1300-1600” panel sponsored by the Prato Consortium for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting,
Boston (1 April 2016).
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Public Lecture, “Remigio dei Girolami on Peace and Concordia in Dante’s Florence,”
Giornata di Studio su Dante in occasione della 750° della nascita, Castello dei Guidi
Poppi (Ar), Italy (21 June 2015).
“Penance & Peace in late Medieval Italy,” Mediterranean Connections, Delaware Valley
Medievalist Association, Johns Hopkins University (19 April 2015).
Public Lecture, “Preaching, Penance, and Peacemaking in Late Medieval Italy,”

Harvard University (20 Oct. 2014).
Conference co-organizer and presenter, “Peacemaking and Dispute Resolution in

Medieval Italy,” American Academy in Rome (9 April 2014).
Public Lecture & Dialogue: “Medieval Peacemaking and Modern Conflict Resolution in
Comparative Perspective” with Michael van Walt van Praag
Villa La Pietra, NYU Florence (25 Feb. 2014).
Lecture, “The Problems of Peacemaking in Late Medieval Florence,”

School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2 Dec. 2013).
Seminar, “Notaries and Notarial Culture in Late Medieval Florence,” Medieval Seminar,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (10 Dec. 2013).
RICHARD BACH JENSEN: “The International Battle against Anarchist Terrorism:

1878-1934,” lecture via skype to a class on the history of terrorism at the invitation of the
Director of Terrorism Studies, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security,
Charles Sturt University (Canberra), 20 Mar. 2017.
“Anarchists and Russian Terrorists, 1880-1914: Terrorists or Heroic Political Criminals?”

Louisiana Political Science Association, annual Meeting. Northwestern State University,
Natchitoches, LA. 8 April 2017.
MAUREEN MILLER: "Fashioning Authority: Clothing and Communication at the

Papal Court c. 1300," invited lecture, Department of History, Illinois State University,
Normal, IL, 27 March 2017.
"Clothing as Communication? Vestments and Views of the Papacy c. 1300," at Papal

Communication and Authority in the Middle Ages, Danish Institute in Rome 10 January
2017, and at the California Medieval History Seminar, Huntington Library, 18 February
2017.
"Rags and Riches: Secrets of Medieval Textiles," invited lecture, Premodern Global
Studies, California State University at Channel Islands, 10 November 2016.
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"Feuding Popes and Emperors: Characterizing the Investiture Conflict," invited lecture,
University of California, Los Angeles, 28 April 2016.
"A Descriptive Language of Dominion? Curial Inventories, Clothing, and Papal

Monarchy c. 1300," invited lecture at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 17 March
2016.
NELSON MINNICH: Organized the conference “Alla Ricerca di Soluzioni: Nuova

Luce sul V Concilio Lateranense; Convegno Internazionale di Studi per i 500 anni del V
Concilio Lateranense (1512-1517), 12-14 ottobre 2016, Pontificia Università
Lateranense” where he gave the introductory lecture “The Significance of Lateran V after
Five Hundred Years” (12.X.16), and a guided tour “Imagining the Proceedings of the
Lateran Council: Guided tour in situ (14.X.16), and led the “Discussione e Conclusione
dei Lavori” Twenty scholar-speakers from the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy,
Switzerland, and the United States.
With Michael Root I organized the conference "Martin Luther and the Shaping of the
Catholic Tradition" held at the Catholic University of America on May 30th to June 1st
with sixteen speakers from the Finland, France, Germany, United States, and Vatican
City. My paper was titled "Late Medieval Models of the Church: Papal, Conciliar, and
Lay."
LAURIE NUSSDORFER: "I notai della Curia Capitolina nel Seicento" presented at the
giornata di studi organized by the Archivio di Stato di Roma devoted to the topic of
notaries in medieval and early modern Rome.
"Meanings of Manhood in 17th-century Aristocratic Families" presented at the third

Early Modern Rome conference organized by the University of California Study Center
in Rome.
I also led a seminar on notaries and power at the Early Modern Workshop at Fordham
University and commented at a session of the 2017 Renaissance Society of America
comparing native and foreign painters' populations in various European cities (focusing,
but not exclusively, on Italy).
JAMES PALMER: “Houses of Women: Understanding Roman Political Society at the

Turn of the Fifteenth Century,” Expanding Visions: Women in the Medieval and Early
Modern World, University of Miami, March 2-4, 2017.
“Understanding Power in Late Medieval Rome: Tracking the Transformation of a

Political Culture,” Southeastern Medieval Association, Annual Conference, 2016.
SILVANA PATRIARCA: Co-organizer and chair of panel discussion “On the Origins of
Mafia and Camorra: A Discussion of Two Recent Books,” Italian Academy at Columbia
University, New York City, 14 December 2016.
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Presentation of new Italian translation of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks,
Istituto per la Storia della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea, Livorno, 23 June 2016.
“Brown Babies” in Postwar Europe: The Italian Case. Max Weber Lecture, European
University Institute, 18 November 2015.
“Discourses of Internal Differences and the Renationalization of Contemporary Italy,”

seminar for doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers, European University
Institute, Florence, 18 November 2015.
“Race, Catholic Charity, and the Cold War in Postwar Italy,” paper presented at the
Council for European Studies Conference, Paris, 8 July 2015.
Keynote address: “Dopoguerra in bianco e nero: “razza” e Chiesa cattolica nell’Italia

postfascista,” delivered at the Seminario nazionale della Società italiana per lo studio
della storia contemporanea on “I conti col passato. L’Italia repubblicana e l’eredità
coloniale,” Cagliari, July 2, 2015.
“An Economy of Blushing: Malaparte and the (non)-Question of Italian Guilt,” paper
presented at the Guilt Colloquium II, Birkbeck, University of London, 13 June 2015.
“Il colore della Repubblica,” seminar for faculty and doctoral students of the Scuola
Normale Superiore, Pisa, 27 May, 2015.
Discussant, Conference on “Fascisms Across Borders,” Columbia University and the

New School for Social Research, New York City, April 1-2, 2015.
KARA PERUCCIO: Presenter (provisionally accepted), “The Interwar Softboy: Fragile

Masculinities and Strong Ladies in Italian and Turkish Women’s Literature, 1922-1932,"
ACLA Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 29-April 1, 2018.
-Presenter, “Betrayed by Beloveds: The Politics of Fiction in Fascist Italy and

Kemalist Turkey,” Annual Meeting of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies,
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 5-7, 2017.
VALERIE RAMSEYER: “The Localization of Society in Late Antique Southern Italy,”

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 2017.
“Fifteen Years of Teaching the Early Medieval Mediterranean,” Meeting of the Medieval
Academy of America, Toronto, Canada, 2017.
SARAH ROSS: “Everyday Renaissances,” a book presentation for the Casa Italiana,
New York University, 3 November 2016.
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“Building New Lives from Old Books in Renaissance Italy,” Bowdoin College, 27
October 2016. Linked to a workshop I led on 28 October the history of books and readers
connected to Bowdoin’s George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections.
“Unexpected Renaissances,” Bates College, 28 October 2016.
“The Literary Lives of Health Workers in Late Renaissance Venice,” presentation for a
symposium on “The Renaissance of Letters,” Stanford University, 13-14 May 2016.
“Theatrical Citizenship: The Andreini Family and Florence,” Renaissance Society of

America Annual Meeting (Boston, MA), 2 April 2016.
Roundtable discussant, “Theater after the Renaissance,” Renaissance Society of America

Annual Meeting (Boston, MA), 31 March 2016.
ANNA SANTUCCI: “Creating Learning Communities Through Arts Integration”

Bridging Cultural Divides through Integrative Learning’ Atlantic Center for Learning
Communities Curriculum Planning Retreat (West Hartford, CT, 18-20 October 2017)
2017.
“Learning through the body: a reflection on theater arts integration in the foreign
language and culture curriculum,” Italian Language and Culture Conference:
Innovation in Italian Programs and Pedagogy (Georgetown University, Washington DC,
21 October 2017) 2017.
Summer School: The role of theatre and drama in higher and adult language education:
from theory to practice, Co-organizer, Speaker and Facilitator
(University of Padova, August 2017) 2017.
“Developing Critical Thinking: The Classroom as the Site of Adaptation” Panel –

Irreconcilable Differences? “Faithfulness” and Translation and “Artful Teaching: A
Collaborative Journey of Community Building” Roundtable – Let’s Work Together:
Collaboration and Pedagogy NeMLA 2017 annual conference (Baltimore, March 23-26
2017) 2017.
“Performance and the foreign language and culture curriculum: theory and practice”
Panel – Teaching as Theoretical Practice, MLA 2017 annual convention (Philadelphia, 5-
8 January 2017) 2017.
“Artful Pedagogy” Panel – Collaborative Pairings, ACLA Conference, Extra-

Disciplinarity (Penn State, 23-24 Sept 2016) 2016.
“The challenges of measuring the immeasurable” Panel – Learning Italian as a Foreign

Language through Drama Techniques: Classroom Research at the Novice and Advanced
Level AATI 2016 International Conference (Naples, Italy, 22-27 June 2016) 2016.
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“Performance and the Teaching of Foreign Language and Culture” Theatre Arts &
Performance Studies Colloquium, Brown University, 2016.
"Bridging the Gap between Language and Culture through the Performing Body"
Panel – Moving Forward: New Perspectives on Italian Literature and Culture Courses
and “Staging Pirandello: Bridging the Gap Between Language and Literature through
Drama” Roundtable – Teaching Pirandello in the New Millennium, NeMLA 2016 annual
conference (Hartford CT, 17-20 March 2016) 2016.
“Rehearsing for a Better Future: Revolution on Stage in Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal and
Dario Fo,” Graduate Conference Performing Revolution – Parole in Movimento (Rutgers
University, 6-7 November 2015) 2015.
“Bridging the Gap between Body and Language: negotiating the liminal space of the FL
& culture classroom and achieving transcultural competence through the performing
arts,” Italian Language and Culture Conference: New Directions in Teaching and
Research (Georgetown University, Washington DC, 23 October 2015).
“Tonight We Adapt: An investigation of Appropriation and Adaptation issues

through an analysis of Pirandello’s Tonight We Improvise,” Romance Studies
Colloquium: Adaptation – Intertextual Transformations Across Different Media
(Swansea University, UK, 1-3 July 2015).
"Intellettuali Anni Zero? Il caso Saviano - Dal Lago," NeMLA 2015 annual conference
(Toronto, 30 April – 3 May 2015).
“Giuseppe Baretti’s Easy Phraseology (1775): An 18th Century Forerunner of 20th

Century Educational Drama,” Italian Studies Colloquium, Brown University 2013.
ANNE JACOBSON SCHUTTE: Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, March

2017: chair, "Women, Piety, and Reading in the 15th Century."
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Milwaukee, October 2017: paper, "Caterina
da Racconigi and Her Biographers."
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Milwaukee, October 2017: chair, "Female
Agency in the Early Modern World, in honor of Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Susan Karant-
Nunn."
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Milwaukee, October 2017: comment, "Grace,
Piety, and Prayer: Studies in Honor of Alison Weber."
DANIEL SMAIL: "Why do People Keep Things (including Manuscripts)?” Paper

delivered at the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar, University of Iowa, April 2017.
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“Scale in History.” Paper delivered at the American Historical Association Convention,

Denver, January 2017.
“Recycling and the nature of the object in late medieval Europe: household inventories
from Marseille.” Paper delivered at the Medieval Seminar, All Souls’ College, Oxford,
December 2016. Invited speaker.
“The Scroll and Its Context: The City of Marseille and Lay Documentary Culture in the
Fourteenth Century.” Lecture given at the University of Rochester Library, Special
Collections, September 2016. Invited speaker.
Position paper delivered for a panel of a departmental seminar on “The Senses and
Emotions in History,” Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016. Invited
speaker.
Discussant at an international conference “Faida: Feud and blood feud between

customary law and legal process in medieval and early modern Europe,” University of
Ca’ Foscari, Venice, June 2016. Invited speaker.
Discussant at an international workshop “Listes d’objets,” part of the program of studies

“Pouvoir des listes au Moyen Âge,” École française de Rome, June 2017. Invited
speaker.
Comment on a book panel for Intisar Rabb, Doubt in Islamic Law, Law and Society
Association conference, New Orleans, June 2016.
“On the Possibility of an Interdisciplinary Science of Analogies.” Paper delivered at a

workshop on the work of Gregory Bateson, University of California-Irvine, April 2016.
Invited speaker.
“The Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe.” Paper delivered to the

faculty and fellows at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 2016.
“Debt Collection and the Making of Medieval Justice.” Paper delivered at the conference
“Individuals and Legal Institutions Around the Medieval Mediterranean,” Duke
University, March 2016. Invited speaker.
STEVEN SOPER: “Mai Dimenticare: Elenchi dei nomi di patrioti nelle memorie di
Sigismondo Castromediano”. Centro Studi Sigismondo Castromediano, Cavallino
(Lecce), Nov. 12, 2016.
“Testing the Limits of Global Knowledge: A Microhistory of British Prison Discourse

and Policy in 1851”. University of Bern, Switzerland, Sept. 9, 2016.
MARLA STONE: “Continuities and Ruptures: Italian Anti-Communism from Fascism

to Democracy,” Council for European Studies, Glasgow, July 12, 2017.
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“Anti-Communism from Dictatorship to Democracy: The Italian Case,” Jacob Talmon

Annual Lecture, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, May 11, 2017.

“The Enemy: The Emergence and Evolution of Anticommunism in Fascist Italy,” Works
in Progress lecture series, European University Institute, Florence, March 10, 2017.
“Historians and the Life/Work Balance.” American Historical Association, Denver,
Colorado, January 7 – 9, 2017.
“The End of the World As We Know It? The Global Rise of National Populisms,” The
Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City
University of New York, December 8, 2016.
SHARON STROCCHIA: “The Politics of Household Medicine at the Early Medici

Court,” invited keynote address at international conference, “Gender(ed) Histories of
Health, Healing and the Body, 1250-1550,” University of Cologne, January 2018.
“Secrets on Trial: Testing Wondrous Remedies in Late Renaissance Italy,” Renaissance

Society of America, Chicago, April 2017.
Invited Participant, “In Memory of Donald Weinstein: Roundtable on Religion and

Society in Renaissance Italy,” Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, April 2017.
Invited Participant, “Practicing Microhistory Today,” Roundtable Across the Disciplines,

Duke University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, November 2015.
“Secret Gardens: Botanical Innovations in Italian Renaissance Convents,” Renaissance

Society of America, Berlin, March 2015.
STEVEN TEASDALE: Paper (with Carlo Taviani) at the Fifth European Congress on
World and Global History, Budapest 2017, titled "Genoese Merchant Networks from the
Black Sea to West Africa and the Americas (15th-16th Centuries)."
NICOLAS VIRTUE: “Heavy Weapons, Terror, and Non-Combatants in Fascist Italy’s

Counterinsurgency Operations: Ethiopia and Yugoslavia, 1936–43.” Fascist Warfare: A
Concept to Understand Fascism and Total War in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 16–17 March 2017.
“Testing the ‘Colonial Hypothesis’: The Policies and Language of the Italian Army in
Ethiopia and Yugoslavia.” Italy’s Decade of War: 1935–45 in International Perspective,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 6–7 September 2016.
JAMES YOUNG: "Democracy -- What's It Good For?" presented at the Midtown

Scholar Book Store symposium, May 7, 2017, in Harrisburg, PA.
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"The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania: Industrial Democracy in Action,”

at The Wednesday Club of Homestead, PA, 8/29/17.
"Civil Disobedience and Labor's Work Actions: Merging Traditions?" at Mercyhurst

University's conference on the Thoreau Tradition and Influence, October 26, 2017.
PUBLICATIONS
NICHOLAS ADAMS: Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings
(Books on Architecture and Landscape form the Rare Book Collection of the Buffalo &
Erie County Public Library (2017).
JOMARIE ALANO: Partisan Diary, A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance, Ada
Gobetti, Translated and edited by Jomarie Alano, Oxford UP, 2014.
A Life of Resistance. Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902-1968), University of

Rochester Press, 2016.
ALLISON SCARDINO BELZER: "Nurses, Spies, and Sacrifice: Female Citizenship

and Patriotism in Italy." In Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I. Edited by
Graziella Parati. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016, pp. 55-68.
GIOVANNA BENADUSI: Medici Women: The Making of a Dynasty in Gran Ducal

Tuscany (ed. with Judith Brown), (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance
Studies, 2015)
“The Gender Politics of Vittoria della Rovere,” in Medici Women: The Making of a
Dynasty in Gran Ducal Tuscany (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies:
Toronto, CA, 2015), pp. 265-301
“Social Relations,” In Michael Wyatt, ed., The Cambridge Companion Guide to the
Italian Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 353-378
LYN BLANCHFIELD: "The Problem of the Urban Pig: Violence and Civic Order in the
Late Medieval Italian City-State" eClassica 2: Violência no Mundo Antigo e Medieval:
Universidade de Lisboa (2016). http://www.tmp.letras.ulisboa.pt/eclassica/2627-
eclassica-2-2016.
CHRISTOPHER CARLSMITH: “Quarrels Under the Portico: Student Violence in

Early Modern Italian Universities,” in Student Revolt, City, and Society in Europe: From
the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Pieter Dhondt and Laura Kolbe. International
Commission for the History of Universities. Routledge Studies in Cultural History
(London: Routledge, 2017).
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“Locations for Children: Schools and orphanages in Bergamo and Bologna in the 16th
and 17th centuries.” Journal of Theories of Research and Education / Rivista Ricerche di
Pedagogia e Didattica 12/1 (2017), Special Issue “The Child’s Experience of the City”:
http:/rpd.unibo.it/. 5,700 words. Published simultaneously in Italian as “Spazi educativi
per l’infanzia nell’Italia del ‘600: scuola e istituzioni per gli orfani a Bergamo e a
Bologna” in Infanzia (April 2017) n. 2, [published bimonthly by the Dept. of Educational
Sciences, Univ. of Bologna]. http://www.rivistainfanzia.it.
“Collegiate Conflict: Two Brawls in Bologna between the Collegio di Spagna and the
Collegio Montalto, 1672-73”. In Annali della storia delle università italiane 20/1 (June
2016): 47-63.
“A Venetian Doge in a Yankee Court: Venetian and Byzantine Wall Murals (1889-90) of
Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant in Frederick Ames’ house at 306 Dartmouth Street in
Boston”. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/ (Nov.
2015).
ROBERT CLINES: “How to become a Jesuit Crypto-Jew: The Self-

Confessionalization of Giovanni Battista Eliano through the Textual Artifice of
Conversion,” The Sixteenth Century Journal Vol. 48 no. 1 (Spring 2017): 3-26.
“Fighting Enemies and Finding Friends: The Cosmopolitan Pragmatism of Jesuit

Residences in the Ottoman Levant,” Renaissance Studies Vol. 31 no. 1 (February 2017):
66-86.
“Imperial Thalassology Reconsidered: The Mediterranean Geopolitics of the Jesuit

Presence in Seventeenth-Century Ethiopia,” Mediterranean Historical Review 31, no. 01
(June 2016): 43-64.
“The Society of Jesus and the Early Modern Christian Orient,” Jesuit Historiography
Online http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/jesuit-historiography-online/the-
society-of-jesus-and-the-early-modern-christian-orient-COM_192582 (2016)
THOMAS COHEN: (with Thomas Robisheaux), “Microhistory and the Historical

Imagination: New Frontiers,” a special issue of Journal of Medieval and Early Modern
Studies, Vol 47, No. 1 (Jan 2017) My essay is “The Macrohistory of Microhistory”): 53-
73. I also co-edited the "Roundtable" transcript: 7-52).
“The Great Italian Political Shout," in Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society,
edited by Stefano D’Aglio, Massimo Respocher, and Brian Richardson (Ashgate, 2016),
23-36.
“A Daughter-Killing Digested, and Accepted in a Village of Rome, 1563-1566,” in

Murder in Renaissance Italy, edited by Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe, Cambridge
University Press (2017), 62-81.
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KATHLEEN COMERFORD: From Rome to Zurich, from Ignatius to Vermigli: Essays

in Honor of J. Patrick Donnelly, S.J. (Brill, 2017). Co-editor with Torrance Kirby
(McGill University) and Gary Jenkins (Roanoake University).
Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532-1621. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017.
“The Historiography of the Jesuits in the Italian Peninsula and Islands before the
Suppression,” Jesuit Historiography Online,
http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/jesuit-historiography-online/the-
historiography-of-jesuits-in-the-italian-peninsula-and-islands-before-the-suppression-
COM_192580?s.num=1 (invited submission).
WILLIAM CONNELL: The Routledge History of Italian Americans, co-ed. with

Stanislao Pugliese (New York: Routledge, 2018 [but 4 October 2017]).
“La carta de Maquiavelo a Vettori del 10 de diciembre de 1513,” in Marcelo Barbuto

(ed.), Problematizing “Il principe” (Barcelona: Edicions de la Universitat de
Barcelona, 2017), pp. 11-91.
‘‘L’Utopia di Machiavelli,’’ Polis, 5.2 (2017), pp. 181-190.
‘‘The Inverted Advice of Machiavelli,’’ Times Literary Supplement (19 October 2017).
GEORGE DAMERON: "Feeding the Medieval Italian City-State: Grain, War, and
Political Legitimacy in Tuscany, c. 1150-c. 1350," Speculum (A Journal of Medieval
Studies), 92(4), October, 2017, 976-1019.
“Church and Community in a Medieval City: The Place of San Lorenzo in Florentine
Society from Late Antiquity to the Black Death.” In San Lorenzo: A Florentine Church,
eds. Robert Gaston and Louis Waldman, 40-50 (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks,
2017).
“Florence.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. Ed. Paul E. Szarmach. New

York: Oxford University Press, online (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/).
“Identificazione di un killer: recenti scoperte scientifiche e storiche sulla natura della

Pesta Nera,” trans. Elsa Filosa. In Boccaccio 1313-2013, eds. Francesco Ciabattoni,
Kristina Olson, and Elsa Filosa, 57-70 (Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2015).
"Church and Orthodoxy." In Dante in Context, edited by Lino Pertile and Zygmunt
Baranski, 83-105 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
“Angels, Monsters, and Hybridity in the Divine Comedy of Dante: Ancient Greek
Cultural Legacies and Dante’s Critique of the Church.” In Dante and the Greeks. edited
by Jan Ziolkowski, 247-264 (Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Humanities
Series, 2014).
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“The Church as Lord.” In The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity, ed. John
Arnold, 457-472 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
“Purgatory and Modernity.” In Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide: Medieval Themes

in the World of the Reformation, edited by James Muldoon, 87-105 (Famham, U. K.:
Ashgate, 2013).
STEFANO D’AMICO: Spanish Milan. A City within the Empire, 1535-1706 (London-
New York: Palgrave, 2012).
“Milan between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: economic dynamics and social
transformations,” in The Transition between the 17th and the 18th centuries in Europe.
Perspectives and Case Studies, eds. A. Álvarez Ossorio, C. Cremonini, E. Riva (Milano:
Franco Angeli, forthcoming).
“Milan, 16th to 17th Centuries,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and

Reformation, ed. Margaret King (Oxford University Press Online, 2014).
“Spanish Milan, 1535-1706,” in A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern

Milan: The Distinctive Features of an Italian State, ed. A. Gamberini (Leiden: Brill,
2014).
SPENCER DI SCALA: Mussolini 1883-1915: Triumph and Transformation of a

Revolutionary Socialist, edited by Spencer M. Di Scala and Emilio Gentile, (New York:
Palgrave MacMillan, 2016).
ROY DOMENICO: “’An Embassy to a Golf Course?’ Conundrums on the Road to the
United States’ Diplomatic Representation to the Holy See, 1784-1984” in The Fordham
History of Roman Catholicism in America (working title) edited by James T. Fisher and
Margaret McGuinness (Fordham University Press, forthcoming).
“Forum Essay” (concerning David Kertzer’s The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History
of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe – with Kevin P. Spicer, Lucia Ceci,
Raffaella Perin, Robert Ventresca and David Kertzer) the Catholic Historical Review CII
(4) Autumn 2016.
JOANNE FERRARO: “Youth in Peril in Early Modern Venice.” The Journal of Social
History. 49, no.4 (2016): 761-783.
“Venice Match.” Review of Holly S. Hurlburt. Daughter of Venice. Yale University

Press, 2016 in The London Times Literary Supplement, July 20, 2016.
PAUL GARFINKEL: Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy (Cambridge UP, 2016).
I also have an article ('A wide, invisible net: administrative deportation in Italy, 1863-
1871') appearing in the January 2018 issue of the European History Quarterly.
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MARY GIBSON: Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism (book manuscript).
"Penal Colonies and Concentration Camps in Modern Europe" (with Ilaria Poerio)
forthcoming in Convict Voyages (Clare Anderson, ed., Bloomsbury).
PAUL GRENDLER: Book: The Jesuits and Italian Universities 1548-1773.

Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017. Pp. xvi +505.
Electronic article: "Humanism Bibliography." In A Bibliographical Introduction to the

Italian Humanists. Edited by Craig Kallendorf. Oxford University Press, 2017. Free
access at http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/bo/page/Italian-humanists. This is a
slightly revised version of a bibliography first published electronically in 2010 but now
available for free.
GREGORY HANLON: L'Eroe d'Italia: Odoardo Farnese, i suoi soldati e i suoi sudditi
nella Guerra dei Trent' Anni, ACIES Edizioni, Milano, 2017, 291 pp.
research document: “Early Modern Italy: a comprehensive bibliography of titles in

English and French,” 12th edition 2016, 1109 pages, with historiographical introduction
and 21,190 titles. Open access on my Academia.edu webpage.
'History from an evolutionary perspective: a symposium essay', in Evolutionary Studies

in Imaginative Culture, vol. 1/1, 2017.
'Routine infanticide in the West 1500-1800', History Compass, 2016/11, 1-14.
'Destruction and reconstruction in the duchy of Parma during the Thirty Years' War',
Storia Economica, 19, 2016, 249-278.
ELIZABETH HORODOWICH: Italy and the New World, 1492-1750, eds. Elizabeth
Horodowich and Lia Markey, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
“Wider World: Foreigners, Travel, Geography,” in Italian Renaissance Diplomacy: Texts

in Translation, eds. Isabella Lazzarini and Monica Azzolini (Toronto: Durham Mediaeval
and Renaissance Texts/Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2017), 190-213.
MAURA HAMETZ: “Borders” in The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy:

Outside the State?, eds. Joshua Arthurs, Michael Ebner, and Kate Ferris, (New York:
Palgrave McMillan, 2017), 151-178.
MARIE ITO: "Work and Workplaces, 800-1450," Chapter 3 of A Cultural History of

Work in the Medieval Age (500-1500), ed. Valerie Garver; Volume 2 of A Cultural
History of Work, Bloomsbury Press, UK (forthcoming).
Review of Lester K. Little, Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy
and their Saint, 1200-1800, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, November 2017.
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Review of Olivetta Schena and Sergio Tognetti, eds., Commercio, finanza e guerra nella
Sargegna tardomedievale, in progress, for the Renaissance Quarterly.
Orsanmichele – A Florentine Neighborhood, Court System, and Confraternity, to 1336

monograph near completion; book accepted by Brill.
KATHERINE JANSEN: “La construcción de María Magdalena en la predicación y en

la piedad popular,” Iglesia Viva (dedicated to the theme of “María Magdalena: una
iglesia sin misoginia es possible”) 265 (2016): 33-54.
RICHARD BACH JENSEN: Review of “Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the 20th
Century” by Andrew Cornell. The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture,
October 29, 2017.
“The Assassination of Governor General Bobrikov, 1904, the International Media, and
the Evolving Understanding of Terrorism.” Terrorism and Political Violence, December
2017.
LEZLIE KNOX: Forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press (October 2017):
Larry F. Field, trans., Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome: The Lives of Margherita
Colonna by Giovanni Colonna and Stefania. Edited by Lezlie S. Knox and Sean L. Field.
Available in paperback ($29), e-book, and hardcover.
http://undpress.nd.edu/books/P03346
GLENN KUMHERA: The Benefits of Peace: Private Peacemaking in Late Medieval

Italy. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
MAUREEN MILLER: Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe:

Essays in Honor of Barbara H. Rosenwein, co-edited with Edward Wheatley (London:
Routledge, 2017).
"A Descriptive Language of Dominion? Curial Inventories, Clothing, and Papal

Monarchy c. 1300," forthcoming in Textile History 48 (2017)
"The Political and Cultural Significance of the Bishop's Palace in Medieval Italy," in
Princes of the Church and their Palaces. Proceedings of the international conference at
Auckland Castle (30 June-4 July 2015), ed. David Rollason (London: Society for
Medieval Archaeology / Routledge, 2017), 34-54.
NELSON MINNICH: “Teutonic Knights and Poland at the Fifth Lateran Council,”
Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 46 (2014), 191-224.
"The Autobiography of Antonio degli Agli (ca. 1400-1477): An Introduction and

Transcription of the Dialogus de vita eiusdem auctoris,” co-authored with Giacomo
Mariani, Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà, XXIX (2016), 403-475.
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LAURIE NUSSDORFER: "Roman Notarial Records between Market and State” in The
Social History of the Archive: Record Keeping in Early Modern Europe, eds. L. Corens,
K. Peters, A. Walsham, Past and Present Supplement 11 (Oxford 2016), 71-89.
JAMES PALMER: “Medieval and Renaissance Rome: Mending the Divide,” History
Compass, (2017) DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12424.
SILVANA PATRIARCA: “’Brown Babies’ in Postwar Europe: The Italian Case,” Max
Weber Lecture Series 2016/3, European University Institute, Max Weber Programme,
available at http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/41165/MWP_LS_2016_03.pdf?
sequence=1
“A Crisis of Italian Identity? The Northern League and Italy’s Renationalization Since the
1990s,” in R. Kaiser and J. Edelmann, eds., Crisis as a Permanent Condition? The
Italian Political System Between Transition and Reform Resistance, Baden-Baden,
Nomos Verlag, 2016, pp. 61-78.
“Vizi e virtù degli italiani: rappresentazioni e autorappresentazioni,” in L’Italia dopo il

1961. La grande trasformazione, ed. Mario Dogliani and Sergio Scamuzzi, Bologna. Il
Mulino, 2015, pp. 305-321.
“Gli italiani non sono razzisti”: costruzioni dell’italianità tra gli anni Cinquanta e il
Sessantotto,” in Il colore della nazione, ed. Gaia Giuliani, Florence, Le Monnier, 2015,
pp. 32-45.
“Fear of Small Numbers: ‘Brown Babies’ in Postwar Italy,” Contemporanea. Rivista

dell’’800 e ‘900, 18:4 (October-December 2015), pp. 537-567.
VALERIE RAMSEYER: “Rethinking Boundaries between Christian, Jewish, and

Muslim Communities in Pre-Lateran Southern Italy,” in Irven Resnick and Marie-
Thérèse Champagne (eds.), Religion and Law in Medieval Christian and Muslim
Societies (forthcoming, Brepols).
“Questions of Monastic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily (c. 500-1200),” in
the New Cambridge History of Medieval Western Monasticism, ed. Alison Beach and
Isabelle Cochelin (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
COLIN ROSE: Mapping Space, Sense and Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and
the Early Modern City, C. Rose and N. Terpstra, eds., (London: Routledge, 2016).
SARAH ROSS: Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice
(Harvard University Press, 2016).
"Throwing Aristotle from the Train: Women and Humanism," in The Routledge History
of the Renaissance, edited by William Caferro (Routledge, 2017).
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"Apollo in the Counter-Reformation: Giovan Battista Andreini, Literary Authority and

the Commedia dell'Arte," in Rituals of Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe:
Essays in Honor of Edward Muir, edited by Mark Jurdjevic and Rolf Strøm-Olsen
(University of Toronto Press, 2016).
"Performing Humanism: The Andreini Family and the Republic of Letters in Counter-
Reformation Italy," in For the Sake of Learning: Essays in Honor of Anthony Grafton,
edited by Ann Blair and Anja-Silvia Goeing (Brill, 2016).
ANNA SANTUCCI: “Tonight We Adapt: investigating the adaptive nature of the

theatrical experience through a case-study of a production of Pirandello’s Tonight We
Improvise” Romance Studies 35.3 2017 (forthcoming).
Teaching “Questa sera si recita a soggetto” – online contribution to the SSHRC funded
project “Translating Culture for the Stage; the Case of Luigi Pirandello” at the University
of British Columbia (http://blogs.ubc.ca/questaserasirecitaasoggetto/didactics/) 2016.
“Rehearsing for a Better Future: Revolution on Stage in Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal,
and Dario Fo” La Fusta, Vol. 24 (http://la-fusta.blogs.rutgers.edu/) 2016.
“Tonight We Improvise in Providence Translated and directed by Rebecca Maxfield”

Performance review, Pirandello Society of America 27 2014.
Garibaldi & the Risorgimento project, Italian Studies Department and Center for Digital
Humanities, Brown University, Assistant and Contributor 2012-2015.
“Rewriting The Duchess of Malfi: Adapting Webster’s Tragedy for an ESL Drama
Production” Co-authored with Fiona Dalziel and Giampaolo Spedo, Scenario 5.1: 5-20
(http://publish.ucc.ie/journals/scenario/2011/01/Dalziel/02/en) 2011.
ANNE JACOBSON SCHUTTE: L'Inquisizione romana, i giudici e gli eretici: Studi in

onore di John Tedeschi. eds., Andrea Del Col and Anne Jacobson Schutte. Rome: Viella
2017. Anne adds that the work contains “essays, mainly in Italian, by many of the best
known laborers in John’s vineyard. It is available from the publisher’s website at the sale
price of 22,10 euros.”
"The Sage of Dog Hollow Farm." In L'Inquisizione romana, i giudici e gli eretici, 17-23.
"Index and Biography: The Case of Orsola Benincasa." In L'Inquisizione romana, i

giudici e gli eretici, 141-155.
"Cloister and Hearth: Maria Maddalena Martinengo's Letters to Family Members." In

Scritture, carismi, istituzioni: Percorsi di vita religiosa in eta moderna. Studi per
Gabriella Zarri, ed. Concetta Bianca and Anna Scattigno, 293-304. Rome: Edizioni di
Storia e Letteratura, 2017.
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"Holy Layfolk in Print: Caterina da Racconigi and Francisco del Nino Jesus." in Santi
nell'Italia settentrionale (XIV-XVII secc.): Arte e letteratura, ed. Simone Albonico and
Nicolas Bock, 165-175. Pisa: ETS, 2017.
DANIEL SMAIL: Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval
Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
MARLA STONE: January 2018, “Ways of Seeing: The Cult of Display in Fascist Italy,”
Arti in Italia, 1918 – 1943, exhibition catalogue, Prada Foundation: Milan.
January 2018, “Naming the Enemy: Anticommunism in Transnational Perspective,”
special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History, eds., Marla Stone and Giuliana
Chamedes.
SHARON STROCCHIA: “Begging for Favors: The ‘New’ Clares of S. Chiara Novella
and Their Patrons,” in Studies on Florence and the Italian Renaissance in Honour of F.W.
Kent, ed. Peter F. Howard and Cecilia Hewlett (Turnhout, 2016), 277-94
(co-authored with Julia Rombough), “Women behind Walls: Tracking Nuns and Socio-
Spatial Networks in Sixteenth-Century Florence,” in Mapping Space, Sense, and
Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City, ed. Nicholas Terpstra
and Colin Rose (London and New York, 2016), 87-106
“Knowing Hands: Nuns and the Needle Arts in Renaissance Italy,” Memorie domenicane
46 (2015): 29-50. Special issue on Artiste nel chiostro. Produzione artistica nei monasteri
femminili in età moderna, ed. Sheila Barker with Luciano Cinelli
“Women on the Edge: Madness, Possession and Suicide in Early Modern Convents,”
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45, no. 1 (2015): 53-77
SUSAN MOSHER STUARD: "Why Visit the Shops?" in The Routledge History of the
Renaissance, ed. William Caferro (New York: Routledge, 2017) pp. 213-227.
"Matilda Gage Writes a World History of Women" Women's History Review, Summer
2016.
ERIC TERZUOLO: "Economic Warfare Powers of the US President." In Economic

Warfare: Storia dell'arma economica, V. Ilari and G. Della Torre (eds.), pp. 417-428.
Quaderno 2017. Societa Italiana di Storia Militare. Milan: Acies Edizioni, 2017. Full text
of the book may be downloaded free of charge at
https://www.academia.edu/32927389/Quaderno_Sism_2017_Economic_Warfare.pdf?
auto=download.
“La bomba di Kim non è un bluff” (Ki’s bomb is no bluff). Limes. Rivista italiana di
geopolitica (Limes: Italian journal of geopolitics), no. 9 (2017).
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“Italian-Americans Everywhere: The White House isn’t ‘Jersey Shore’.” The Hill (blog),
Aug. 1, 2017, http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/344794-italian-
americans-everywhere-keep-jersey-shore-out-of
“Mainstream Left Needs a Reboot.” The Hill (blog), June 12, 2017,
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/337409-a-tough-road-ahead-for-the-
mainstream-left
“Le Pen’s Defeat in France Aside, Assess Populism Case by Case.” The Hill (blog), May
10, 2017, http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/332793-le-pens-defeat-in-
france-aside-assess-populism-case-by-case
“Take It from Italy’s Past: Don’t Tinker with US Electoral System.” The Hill (blog), Jan.
31, 2017, http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/317137-take-it-
from-italys-past-dont-tinker-with-us
“Italian Voters Don’t Care What Obama Thinks.” The National Interest (blog), December
5, 2016, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/italian-voters-dont-care-what-obama-thinks-
18626.
NICOLAS VIRTUE: “‘Ha detto male di Garibaldi’: Quirino Armellini and Dissent in
the Royal Italian Army.” In The Concept of Resistance in Italy: Multidisciplinary
Perspectives, edited by Maria Laura Mosco and Pietro Pirani, 153–70. London: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2017.
“A Way Out of Isolation: Fascist Italy’s Relationship with the Vatican during the
Ethiopian Crisis.” Collision of Empires: Italy’s Invasion of Abyssinia and its
International Impact, edited by G. Bruce Strang, 287–310. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.
“Occupation Duty in the Dysfunctional Coalition: The Italian Second Army and its Allies
in the Balkans, 1941–43.” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 14, no. 1 (2011).
http://jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/view/443/442.
JAMES YOUNG: Union Power: The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
(Monthly Rev Press, 2017).
"Erie Electrical Workers," Pennsylvania Labor History Journal.
AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
ALLISON SCARDINO BELZER: Judge Ron Ginsburg Award for Faculty Excellence
(2017).
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DANIEL BORNSTEIN: In collaboration with Saundra Weddle (Drury University),

received a grant of $20,000 through Washington University's Center for the Humanities,
under the umbrella of the Mellon Foundation-funded Divided City initiative, for a project
on "Technologies of Segregation in Italian Renaissance Cities" (2017-2018).
ROBERT CLINES: Jesse Howard, Jr./Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral

Rome Prize Fellowship in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, The American
Academy in Rome (2016-2017).
THOMAS COHEN: I will be a visiting scholar at i Tatti from January to April 2018.
KATHLEEN COMERFORD: Yale University Beinecke Library Visiting Research

Fellowship, October-November 2016; PI ($4,000).
Educational Leave (Sabbatical), Fall 2016.
WILLIAM CONNELL: Digital Humanities Fellow, Seton Hall University.
Award for ‘‘Special Merit’’ from the Italian American Heritage Club of Hunterdon
County, NJ.
JOANNE FERRARO: Appointed the Albert W Johnson Distinguished Professor at

SDSU.
PAUL GARFINKEL: The AHA's Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize (2017) for
Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy.
MARY GIBSON: Distinguished Fellow, Advanced Research Collaborative, Graduate

Center, CUNY, Spring 2016.
PAUL GRENDLER: 2017 Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Renaissance Society of America.
BRIAN GRIFFITH: First Alternate, Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies, American
Academy in Rome.
GREGORY HANLON: Admission to the Academie Nationale des Sciences et Lettres

de Bordeaux.
ELIZABETH HORODOWICH: The National Endowment for the Humanities

Collaborative Research Grant (with Alexander Nagel, New York University), 2017-2019.
RICHARD BACH JENSEN: Excellence in Teaching award. Northwestern State

University. August 2016.
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LEZLIE KNOX: Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society to support
archival work in Rome and Florence.
MAUREEN MILLER: 2016 Otto Gründler Book Prize of the Medieval Institute at
Western Michigan University for Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval
Europe, c. 800-1200.
2017-2018 University of California Multicampus Research Initiative Project grant MRI-

17-441233 for The Middle Ages in the Wider World:
http://www.middleagesinthewiderworld.org.
MARION MILLER: Scholar in residence at Newberry Library, Chicago.
SILVANA PATRIARCA: Fellowship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at

Columbia University, Fall 2016.
KARA PERUCCIO: ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius Trajectories of Change

FieldworkResearch Grant (for dissertation research in Italy, Winter 2018).
COLIN ROSE: Member of Academy for Advanced Study of the Renaissance.
Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship.
SARAH ROSS: Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies in
Florence (2014-2015).
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Grant for Independent Research in Venice
(2010-2011).
ANNA SANTUCCI: Member of Brown University’s Open Graduate Education

Program.
DANIEL SMAIL: Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship, Harvard

University.
Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University.
SHARON STROCCHIA: Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2015-16.
STEVEN TEASDALE: Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship, Summer 2017.
PROMOTIONS and ACTIVITIES IN SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES

NEW COURSES
NICHOLAS ADAMS: Comitato Scientifico, Centro Internazionale di Studi Andrea

Palladio.
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GIOVANNA BENADUSI: Society of Italian Historical Studies, Vice President, 2015-

2016
Society of Italian Historical Studies, President, 2017-2018.
HIS 6939 Material Matters, 1500-1800.
HIS 4936 Renaissance Women.
HIS 4936 European Women in Cross Cultural Perspective, 1500-1800.
LYN BLANCHFIELD: Treasurer, New York State Association of European Historians.
Revised version of “Renaissance Europe, Medieval and Early Modern Gender.”
DANIEL BORNSTEIN: American Historical Association; member, Committee on

Committees (2015-2017).
American Catholic Historical Association; chair, Koenig Article Prize committee

(November 2016-August 2017).
American Catholic Historical Association; member, program committee for joint spring
2017 meeting of ACHA/ASCH (January-March 2017).
Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo; member, editorial board (2003- ).
Medievalia et Humanistica; member, editorial board (2006- ).
Toscana Sacra (book series); member, editorial board (2010- ).
Ordines. Studi su istituzioni e società nel Medioevo europeo (book series); member,
editorial board, (2014- ).
Developed a new Historical Methods course on "Property and Community in Medieval

Europe" to be offered spring 2018.
CHRISTOPHER CARLSMITH: Department Chair (appointed Sept. 2017 for 3-year

term).
Fellowships Chair, Renaissance Society of America.
ROBERT CLINES: “Renaissance Republics: Machiavelli and his Friends.”
KATHLEEN COMERFORD: Vice President, Sixteenth Century Society and

Conference.
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WILLIAM CONNELL: Ongoing editorial boards: Annali per la Storia di Firenze,

Bibliotheca Philosophica (Aracne Editrice), Cento Passi (Pensa Editore), Italian and
Italian American Studies (Palgrave Macmillan), Journal of the History of Ideas, Polis,
Scritti di storia (Università degli Studi di Milano; Bruno Mondadori), South-East
European Journal of Political Science, Storia e politica.
GEORGE DAMERON: American Association of University Professors

American Catholic Historical Association
Dante Society of America
Medieval Academy of America
New England Historical Association
Renaissance Society of America
STEFANO D’AMICO: Promoted to Full Professor in August 2013.
RHIANNON EVANGELISTA: Assistant Professor of History (tenure-track) at Georgia

State University Perimeter College effective August 1, 2017.
Executive Committee Member, Historical Study of States and Regimes Research

Network, Council for European Studies.
JOANNE FERRARO: President, International Friends of the Marciana Library in

Venice (2016-present).
MARY GIBSON: Society for Italian Historical Studies, President, 2015-2017.
MAURA HAMETZ: Chair 2016-2017 European History Section, Southern Historical

Association.
GREGORY HANLON: HIST/ECON 2064; Economic History in Europe 1500-1800.
MARIE ITO: Society for Italian Historical Studies Program Chair, 2018 American
Historical Association meeting, with Roy Domenico, University of Scranton;
coordinating panels of papers on Italian history for the upcoming AHA
meeting, https://aha.confex.com/aha/2018/webprogram/Symposium2274.html.
KATHERINE JANSEN: Chair, Department of History, Catholic University.
RICHARD BACH JENSEN: Retired, May 2017.
Editorial board member, Journal of Radical Studies.
MAUREEN MILLER: Member, Advisory Board, research project on Rethinking reform

900-1150: Conceptualising Change in Medieval Religious Institutions, directed by Julia
Barrow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (2015-).
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Member, Advisory Board, research project on Papal Communication and Authority in the
Central Middle Ages, directed by Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt, Aalborg University,
Denmark (2015-).
Member of the John Gilmary Shea Prize Committee of the American Catholic Historical
Association, 2016-2018.
NELSON MINNICH: Re-appointed to the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences.
JAMES PALMER: I am preparing a new survey of Italian history from (very roughly)
500-1500, which I'm calling "Getting the Boot".
SILVANA PATRIARCA: "The Connecting Sea: A History of the Mediterranean Since

1800", Spring 2017.
COLIN ROSE: Appointed Assistant Professor of European and Digital History, Brock
University, September 2016.
Social History of the Renaissance - 4th year seminar.
SARAH ROSS: Promoted to Full Professor (History Department, Boston College,

effective 1 September 2017).
Elected Department Chair (term runs 1 June 2017-1 June 2020).
Discipline Representative for Women and Gender, Renaissance Society of America.
“Fighting Racism and Sexism in the Renaissance” (Spring 2018).
ANNA SANTUCCI: Performing Italy (course on the history of Italian Theater, cross-
listed with the department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies).
JANE SLAUGHTER: Professor of History, Emeritus (retired).
DANIEL SMAIL: Chair, Department of History, Harvard University.
STEVEN SOPER: Southern Historical Association, European History Section, Baker-

Burton Smith Award committee.
MARLA STONE: Spring 2017: Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University
Institute, Department of History and Civilization.
Fall 2017: Chair, Department of History, Occidental College.
20172019: Vice President, Society for Italian Historical Studies.
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SHARON STROCCHIA: Editorial Board, Renaissance Studies.
Advisory Board, The Medici Archive Project.
Advisory Board, The Monastic Matrix Project.
“Medicine and Empire, 1500-1800.”
ERIC TERZUOLO: Member of Scientific Board of the NATO Defense College

Foundation.
JAMES YOUNG: Vice president, Pennsylvania Labor History Society.

Committee on Adjunct Employment, Labor and Working-Class History Association.
DISSERTATIONS
GIOVANNA BENADUSI: Ashley Buchannan, “The Art and Science of Collecting: The
18th-Century Recipes of Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici” (in progress).
Byron Harsfield, “French Huguenot Printers in Late Sixteenth-Century Europe” (in

progress).
DANIEL BORNSTEIN: James A. Palmer, "Gold, Grain, and Grace: Piety and
Community in Late Medieval Rome"; Washington University in St. Louis (completed
April 2015).
Bianca Lopez, "The Lands of the Virgin: Sacred Economies and Local Identities in the
March of Ancona, 1348-1453"; Washington University in St. Louis (completed April
2016).
Lisa M. Lillie, "Emporium, Community, Empire: The Anglophone Merchants of

Livorno, Italy and the Sociability of Commerce in Early Modernity"; Washington
University in St. Louis (completed February 2017).
Amanda Lynn Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in
Northern Iberia, 1550-1800"; Washington University in St. Louis (completed April 2017).
Luca Roberto Foti, "Heretical Communes: Right Order and Authority in the Fourteenth-
Century Papal Territories"; Washington University in St. Louis (in progress).
THOMAS COHEN: Aaron Miedema (York)is working on the social and physical
history of dueling.
Barry Torch(York) is working on Roman humanist circles ca. 1475.
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MARY GIBSON: Diana Moore, “Transnational Nationalists: Cosmopolitan Women,

Philanthropy, and Italian Nationalism, 1850-1890,” Graduate Center (History), City
University of New York, in progress.
Antonella Vitale, “Fuitina: Love, Sex, and Rape in Modern Italy: 1945-Present,”
Graduate Center (History), City University of New York, in progress.
Francesca Vassalle, “Bitter Sex: The Politics of Contraception in Post-Fascist Italy, 1945-
1978,” Graduate Center (History), City University of New York, in progress.
Sultana Banulescu, “Italian Psyche and Society: How the Brain and Mind Sciences
Shaped Italy, 1900-1948),” Graduate Center (History), City University of New York, in
progress.
Victoria Calabrese, “Land of Women: Basilicata, Emigration and the Women who
Remained Behind, 1880-1914” Graduate Center (History), City University of New York,
2017.
KATHERINE JANSEN: Kate Bush, “Sorelle Mie: The Sermons of Caterina Vigri and
the Franciscan Observantist Reform” (Ph.D. defended 4/16).
Vanessa Corcoran, ““The Voice of Mary: Later Medieval Representations of Marian

Communication” (Ph.D. defended 4/17).
Others in progress
MAUREEN MILLER: Joel Pattison, “Commonwealth or Empire? The Genoese in

North Africa, 1100-1400.”
NELSON MINNICH: Albert Doskey, “Apostolic Tradition in Melchiore Cano.”
SILVANA PATRIARCA: Stephanie De Paola, The racialization of sexual violence in

WWII Italy, Fordham U.
Edoardo Barsotti, "Race" and nation in Risorgimento Italy, Fordham U.
SARAH ROSS: Andrea Wenz, "Bernardino Ochino and the Composition of the Italian
Reformation at Home and Abroad" (completed, Boston College, 2017).
DANIEL SMAIL: Eric Nemarich, 3rd year Ph.D., Harvard University “Making justice
known: Public criers in late medieval Italy.”
NICOLAS VIRTUE: Completed (December 2016): "Royal Army, Fascist Empire: The
Regio Esercito on Occupation Duty, 1936–43." PhD diss., University of Western Ontario,
2016.
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RESEARCH AND WRITING PROJECTS
PAUL ARPAIA: Biography of Luigi Federzoni.
TOMMASO ASTARITA: Two translation projects of 17th-c Naples texts.
GIOVANNA BENADUSI: Legal Culture and Local Knowledge in Grand Ducal Tuscany
(book manuscript in progress).
In Their own Way: Women’s Use of Law in Seventeenth-Century Italy (book manuscript
in progress).
“Family Matters, Princely Rule and the Social Order in Medicean Tuscany” (article
manuscript in progress).
“Reading as Political Practice: The Eclectic Library of a Grand Duchess in the Baroque
Age” (article manuscript in progress).
LYN BLANCHFIELD: Working on a project about anger and political identity in

medieval Florence.
DANIEL BORNSTEIN: Editing (with Laura Gaffuri, Università degli studi di Torino,
and Brian J. Maxson, East Tennessee State University) Languages of Power in Italy,
1300-1600, a collection of 15 essays, by scholars from Italy, Great Britain, Australia,
Canada, and the United States, to be published by Brepols.
Continues to work on a book on religion, culture, and society in medieval Cortona.
Editing and translating the texts for "In Praise of Women: Five Fifteenth-Century Italian
Defenses of Women."
CHRISTOPHER CARLSMITH: “Education in Sixteenth-Century Europe,” in

Literature in Context: Martin Luther, ed. David M. Whitford (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, in press).
“The Three R’s: Reading, Rioni, and the Ratio Studiorum: Education in Early Modern
Rome” for A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692, ed. Pamela M. Jones,
Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield (Leiden: Brill, in press).
ROBERT CLINES: A Jewish Jesuit’s Mediterranean: Giovanni Battista Eliano and the
Early Modern Culture of Conversion (book manuscript under review).
Ancient Others: Barbarians in the Italian Renaissance (book project, research stage).
THOMAS COHEN: I am finishing up a translation of Claire Judde de Larivière, La

révolte des boules de neige (Paris: Fayard, 2016) for a microhistory series at Routledge
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(out next year for sure) and I have promised a book of my own for that series, next in
line, on method, via cases set in Rome. A joint Cohen chapter for the Brill Early Modern
Rome book will come out, on Justice. Elizabeth Cohen and I are revising our Daily Life
in Renaissance Italy, now 15 years old and looking it. I have my eternal village book to
do, the back burner that never flickers out. I am on sabbatical and have eternal hopes.
KATHLEEN COMERFORD: Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project (Europe): creating a

database of texts found at Jesuit libraries and tracing their movements.
Pre-suppression Jesuit college libraries.
GEORGE DAMERON: A book on the history of the political economy of grain in

Tuscan communes, c. 1150-c. 1350.
An essay on the medieval Florentine Church.
A conference paper on the language of hunger in Tuscan medieval chronicles.
An article on military spending and the Tuscan medieval economy.
STEFANO D’AMICO: Female poverty and shelters for imperiled women in early
modern Milan.
SPENCER DI SCALA: Writing a book on Enrico Fermi.
ROY DOMENICO: Volume on the Italian home front during World War Two for a
series published by Fordham University Press.
RHIANNON EVANGELISTA: Book project: Fascists After Fascism: Mussolini's

Ministers in Democratic Italy, 1943-1970.
JOANNE FERRARO: General Series Editor, A Cultural History of Marriage from

Antiquity to the Present, 6 vols., London: Bloomsbury Academic Press.
Volume Editor, A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern
Age, London: Bloomsbury Academic Press
The sex trade in early modern Venice, ongoing research.
PAUL GARFINKEL: A legal history of internal exile in Liberal Italy.
PAUL GRENDLER: Religious Order Schools in Italy 1548-1773 (book).
BRIAN GRIFFITH: Cultivating Fascism: Winemaking, Consumerism, and Identity in

Mussolini's Italy (Dissertation).
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GREGORY HANLON: book: L'Italie 1636: cimetiere des armees, under review.
'Death control in the West: new research on routine infanticide in Northern Italy from the
16th to the 18th centuries', article under review.
MAURA HAMETZ: “No Grounds to Proceed: Mussolini’s Special Tribunal and the
Defense of the Fascist State” (current monograph project).
Various projects on Adriatic citizenship in the era of the First World War.
Project on Holocaust Memory and the Risiera in Trieste.
ELIZABETH HORODOWICH, Amerasia: A Renaissance Discovery in the First

Global Age, with Alexander Nagel.
KATHERINE JANSEN: “Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy” (Princeton:

Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2018).
LEZLIE KNOX: A book-length study of Mariano of Florence (d. 1523).
MAUREEN MILLER: Registering Change: Ecclesiastical Lordship & the Documentary

Revolution.
NELSON MINNICH: editing the proceedings of the October 2016 Lateran V

conference in Rome and of the Luther conference in Washington, DC in 2017, both of
which I helped to organize.
LAURIE NUSSDORFER: Book project: "City of Men: Service and Servants in

Baroque Rome."
Article on Rome's civic notaries in the 17th century.
Essay on civic identity for the volume Companion to Early Modern Rome.
JAMES PALMER: “Good Governance: The Virtues of Economy and Power in Late
Medieval Rome” (manuscript under review with Cornell University Press).
I also have a state-of-the-field piece on Rome during Avignon in preparation for History
Compass.
Review of Dario Internullo's book, "Ai margini dei giganti", forthcoming in Renaissance
Quarterly.
SILVANA PATRIARCA: Book on racism in the post-1945 period seen through the
experiences and representations of the mixed-race children born in Italy at the end of
WWII.
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KARA PERUCCIO: PhD dissertation: “Womanhood Mediterranean Style:

Authoritarianism and the Politics of Fiction in Italy and Turkey, 1919-1935.”
V.ALERIE RAMSEYER: Early Medieval Italy, a book offering an overview of Italian

history from the Ostrogoths through the investiture controversy (c. 475-1085), which
integrates the histories of all regions, including southern Italy and Sicily.
COLIN ROSE: Homicide in Early Modern Italy - book manuscript, submitting to CUP.
DECIMA - ongoing Historical GIS project about ducal Florence.
Work, play and violence in early modern childhood.
SARAH ROSS: I am currently finishing a textbook for Wiley with the working title
“The World of Early Modern Europe: Society, Culture, and Ideas, 1450-1789”, which
covers the usual timespan for a semester course on this subject but does so by rooting
each chapter in a micro-study of a protagonist drawn from society's middle ranks. I also
let sociocultural and intellectual history take the foreground, which means not eliminating
but relegating to the background more traditional textbook narratives of high politics and
economics.
At the same time, I'm continuing to work on a monograph about the Andreini family and
the world of the comedia dell'arte in Counter-Reformation Italy. Research got a
wonderful jumpstart at Villa I Tatti in Florence two years ago, and I think I'm beginning
to get my head around some of the more perplexing discoveries I made then -- alchemists
and whatnot!
ANNA SANTUCCI: Doctoral dissertation on language acquisition as performance and

on the integration of the theater arts in the foreign language and culture curriculum.
Article for TILCA (Teaching Italian Language and Culture Annual): 2017 ILCC
Georgetown conference proceedings.
Case Study for RiDE (Research in Drama Education) for the special issue: Theatre and
Performance vs the “Crisis in the Humanities.” Creative Pedagogies, Neoliberal Realities
ANNE JACOBSON SCHUTTE: Printed Italian vernacular lives of lay holy people,
17th-18th centuries.
DANIEL SMAIL: http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/DALME/ (Documentary

Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe).
STEVEN SOPER: Book manuscript on southern Italian political prisoners in the 1850s.
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SHARON STROCCHIA: Book manuscript examining Italian urban women as medical

agents, knowledge brokers and commercial innovators in the medical marketplace, 1500-
1650.
SUSAN MOSHER STUARD: Literacy in Fourteenth Century Italy.
STEVEN TEASDALE: Researcher on "Genoese Merchant Networks in Africa and

across the Atlantic Ocean" project from the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom;
researcher on the DECIMA project out of the University of Toronto; completing my
dissertation on "Slavery, the Bank, and the Society of Early Modern Genoa."
ERIC TERZUOLO: Italy and the Balkan Pact.
JAMES YOUNG: Life and Work in Milton Hershey's Town: The Sweetest Place on
Earth?
Progressive Labor in Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania Social Services Union.
ET CETERA
ROY DOMENICO: Last summer I used the Archiginnasio library in Bologna and was
very impressed by its friendliness to scholars. Very easy to use, a great collection and a
physically beautiful place to work. And, of course, a Bologna si mangia bene!
LAURIE NUSSDORFER: The big news for those working in Italy's public archives
(both state and municipal) is that, as of Sept 2017, scholars may take their own digital
photos of archival documents without payment and without other formalities.
JANE SLAUGHTER: I have some writing underway, continue to travel (most recently
to Turkey and to Cuba), but since retiring I volunteer most of my time at an Esquine
Horse Ranch on the other side of the Sandia Mts.
JAMES YOUNG: The Hershey, PA, story includes much about Italian and Italian-
American workers.
PATRONS
The Society would like to express its deep appreciation to those members who have
kindly volunteered to help our financial situation this year by becoming Patrons with a
dues payment of at least $20:
Kathleen Comerford
Roy Domenico
Rhiannon Evangelista
Maureen Miller
Fabio Rizi
Roland Sarti
Mark Seymour
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Nicholas Adams: niadams@vassar.edu

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Melissa Meriam Bullard: mbullard@email.unc.edu
H. James Burgwyn: jburgwyn2@verizon.net
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Renato Camurri: r.camurri@alice.it
Fabio Capano: fabio.capano@gmail.com
Anthony L. Cardoza: acardoz@luc.edu
Christopher Carlsmith: christopher_carlsmith@uml.edu
Benedetta Carnaghi: bc552@cornell.edu
Richard Carrier: Richard.Carrier@rmc.ca
Mario Caruso: mzcaruso@yahoo.com
Alan Cassels: cassels@sympatico.ca
Caroline F. Castiglione: caroline_castiglione@brown.edu
Anna Celenza : excessunofficial@gmail.com
Giuliana Chamedes chamedes@wisc.edu
Mark I. Choate: mark.choate@byu.edu
Carmela Chomin: giuseppesaverio.bruno@gmail.com
Robert Clines : mrrobertclines@gmail.com
Elizabeth S. Cohen: ecohen@yorku.ca
Thomas V. Cohen: tcohen@yorku.ca
Kathleen M. Comerford: kcomerfo@georgiasouthern.edu
Eleanor A. Congdon: eacongdon@ysu.edu
William J. Connell: connelwi@shu.edu
Frank J.Coppa: coppaf@stjohns.edu
Patrizia Costa Frezza costafrezzap@gmail.com
Alan Cottrell: ccottrell5@alamo.edu
Ann M. Crabb: crabbam@jmu.edu
Kathleen G. Cushing: k.g.cushing@keele.ac.uk
Sue Cuthbertson: sec5e@virginia.edu
Jorge Dagnino Jimenez: dagninojorge@gmail.com
George Dameron: gdameron@smcvt.edu
Stefano Damico: stefano.damico@ttu.edu
Thomas Dandelet: tjdandelet@gmail.com
Céline Dauverd: celine.dauverd@colorado.edu
John A. Davis: john.davis@uconn.edu
Robert C. Davis: davis.711@osu.edu
Alexander V. DeGrand: alex_degrand@ncsu.edu
Ronald K. Delph: ron.delph@emich.edu
Jennifer Mara DeSilva: jennifer.desilva@utoronto.ca
Michael Di Clemente michael.diclemente@gmail.com
Peter Davidson Diehl: Peter.Diehl@wwu.edu
Spencer M. DiScala: spencer.discala@umb.edu
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Salvatore DiStefano: sdistefano@fordham.edu

Roy P. Domenico: roy.domenico@scranton.edu
Conrad L. Donakowski: donakows@msu.edu
John Patrick Donnelly, S.J.: john.p.donnelly@marquette.edu
Richard R. Drake: richard.drake@umontana.edu
Joanna H. Drell: jdrell@richmond.edu
Lois C. Dubin: ldubin@smith.edu
Suzanne Duchacek: suzaroby@gmail.com
Marco Duranti: marco.duranti@sydney.edu.au
Eric R. Dursteler: ericd@byu.edu
Gloria Eive: geive@silcon.com
Rhiannon Evangelista: rhiannon.evangelista@gmail.com
Simonetta Falasca: falasca@soc.ucsb.edu
Filomena Fantarella: filomena_fantarella@brown.edu
Joanne M. Ferraro: ferraro@mail.sdsu.edu
Joseph Figliulo-Rosswurm: JoeFigs@gmail.com
Paula Findlen: pfindlen@stanford.edu
Maurice A. Finocchiaro: maurice.finocchiaro@unlv.edu
Claudio Fogu: claudiofogu@gmail.com
Douglas J. Forsyth: dougfor@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Luci Fortunato: lfortunato@bridgew.edu
Alison Frazier: akfrazier@mail.utexas.edu
Matthew Gaetano: mgaetano@hillsdale.edu
Margery Ann Ganz: mganz@spelman.edu
Paul Garfinkel: paulgar@hotmail.com
Diana Garvin: dgarvin@post.harvard.edu
Sciltian Gastaldi: newsletter@sciltiangastaldi.com
John H. Geerken: profjohn22@yahoo.com
Theodore L. Gentry: tedgentry@juno.com
Mary S. Gibson: mgibson@jjay.cuny.edu
Leopold George Glueckert: twitmeistr@hotmail.com
Kenneth Gouwens: kenneth.gouwens@uconn.edu
Alexander J. Grab: agrab@maine.edu
Dru Graham: dgraham@sgfok.com
Luke Gramith: lwgramith@mix.wvu.edu
Paul F. Grendler: paulgrendler@gmail.com
Raymond F.Grew: rgrew@umich.edu
Brian Griffith: brianjgriffith@umail.ucsb.edu
James S. Grubb: grubb@umbc.edu
Erik Gustafson egustafson@wesleyan.edu
Jacqueline Gutwirth: jgutwirth@msn.com
Julia Guzzetta: j.fara.guzzetta@gmail.com
Maura E. Hametz: mhametz@odu.edu
Louis Hamilton: louis.i.hamilton@njit.edu
Gregory Hanlon: ghanlon@dal.ca
Jessica Harris: jlharris@ucla.edu
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Geoffrey Haywood: haywood@arcadia.edu

Tinney Heath: t2heath@sbcglobal.net
Jennifer Anne Heindl: heindl@asu.edu
Dave Henderson: davehen@sonic.net
Mary S. K. Hewlett: mhewlett@uwindsor.ca
Caroline Hillard snogert@yahoo.com
Liz Horodowich: lizh@nmsu.edu
Veronika Horwath: veronikahorwath@yahoo.com
Judith Jeffrey Howard: judyjeffreyhoward@comcast.net
Steven C. Hughes: schughes@loyola.edu
John M. Hunt: hunt.271@osu.edu
Jesse Hysell : jjhysell@gmail.com
Ernest Ialongo: eialongo@gmail.com
Carl Ipsen: cipsen@indiana.edu
Marie Ito: Marie.daguanno@gmail.com
Katherine Jansen: jansen@cua.edu
Kathryn L. Jasper: katieljasper@gmail.com
Richard B. Jensen: jensenr@nsula.edu
Lisa Kaborycha: lkabor@gmail.com
Craig William Kallendorf: klinkhammer@dhi-roma.it
Richard Kaplan: joedetroit1996@yahoo.com
Deborah Kaye: deborahk@u.arizona.edu
Charles Keenan charles.r.keenan@gmail.com
Peter C. Kent: kent@unb.ca
Trevor Kilgore trevkil_8@hotmail.com
Charles L. Killinger: ckillinger407@gmail.com
Shira Klein: sklein@chapman.edu
Charles Klopp klopp.2@osu.edu
Leslie Knox: lezlie.knox@marquette.edu
Eden Knudsen: erk0007@auburn.edu
Azeta Kola: azeta67@yahoo.com
Christopher Korten: chriskorten@yahoo.com
Jennifer Kosmin: jfk018@bucknell.edu
Courtney Krolikoski: cakrolik@gmail.com
Frederick Krantz: fkrantz@videotron.ca
Thomas Kuehn: tjkuehn@clemson.edu
Glenn Kumhera: gkumhera@gmail.com
Ann E. Kuzdale: ae-kuzdale@csu.edu
William Landon: drwilliamlandon@yahoo.com
Carol Lansing: lansing@history.ucsb.edu
Anne Leader: annecleader@gmail.com
Valentina Lepri: valentina.lepri@gmail.com
Wendy Ligon Smith wendyligonsmith@gmail.com
Jesse Locker : jesselocker@gmail.com
Vincent M. Lombardi: vclombardi@optonline.net
Pamela O. Long: pamlong123@cs.com
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Bianca Lopez: blopez@trinity.edu

Pietro Lorenzini: plorenzini@hotmail.com
David Gordon LoRomer: loromer@pilot.msu.edu
Charles S. Maier: csmaier@fas.harvard.edu
Gianmarco Mancosu : gianmancosu@gmail.com
Peter Maravelias: pmaravelias@ucdavis.edu
Thomas Marchisa: tmarchisa@gmail.com
Benjamin George Martin: bengmartin@gmail.com
Anthony Martire: anthony.martire@gmail.com
Maria Mastrota: mariamastrota@gmail.com
Sara F. Matthews-Grieco: sfmatthe@syr.fi.it
Theresa M. McBride: tmcbride@holycross.edu
Vanessa G. McCarthy: vanessa.mccarthy@utoronto.edu
Frederick J. McGinness: mcginnes@mtholyoke.edu
Katherine Tucker McGinnis: ktmcginn@email.unc.edu
Sarah Blake McHam: sarah.blake.mcham@gmail.com
Celeste McNamara: celeste.mcnamara@gmail.com
Sally McKee: sjmckee@ucdavis.edu
Fr. Michael Francis Mendl: salesianstudies@gmail.com
Peter Michelli : petermichelli13@gmail.com
James E. Miller: jemfle@aol.com
Maureen C. Miller: mcmiller@berkeley.edu
Marion S. Miller: msm@uic.edu
Nelson Hubert Minnich: minnich@cua.edu
Margaret J. Moody: mjm@oxy.edu
Catherine Mooney: catherinemariemooney@gmail.com
Diana Moore: dmoore2@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Megan Moran moranm@mail.montclair.edu
Erica Moretti: emoretti@mtholyoke.edu
Penelope Morris: Penelope.Morris@glasgow.ac.uk
Victoria Mary Morse: vmorse@carleton.edu
Ann E. Moyer: ann.moyer@gmail.com
John Muendel: muendel64@wi.rr.com
Edward Muir: e-muir@northwestern.edu
Caroline P. Murphy: carolinepmurphy@gmail.com
Fadil Moslemani fadilmoslemani@gmail.com
William L. Myers: wlmyers@uaa.alaska.edu
John Neff: jneff@ucla.edu
Thomas F. Noble: thomas.noble.8@nd.edu
William Linden North: wnorth@carleton.edu
Laurie Nussdorfer: lnussdorfer@wesleyan.edu
Emily O’Brien: eobrien@sfu.ca
Maura O’Connor: maura.oconnor@uc.edu
J. Dean O’Donnell: odonnell@vt.edu
Brian W. Ogilvie: ogilvie@pobox.com
Duane J. Osheim: djo@virginia.edu
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Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi: aositg@yahoo.com

James Palmer kearneymarc@gmail.com
Giovanna Palombo: gpalombo@berkeley.edu
John T. Paoletti: jpaoletti@wesleyan.edu
Borden W. Painter: borden.painter@trincoll.edu
Katharine Park: park28@fas.harvard.edu
Silvana Patriarca: patriarca@fordham.edu
Peter N. Pedroni: pedronpn@muohio.edu
Kara Anne Peruccio: kaperuccio@uchicago.edu
David S. Peterson: petersond@wlu.edu
Janine Peterson: plarlic@yahoo.com
Christopher Petitt: petitt_christopher@msn.com
Marta Q. Petrusewicz: marta.petrusewicz@hunter.cuny.edu
Stephanie Pilat stephpilat@yahoo.com
Diego Pirillo: pirillo@sns.it
Wendy Pojmann: wpojmann@siena.edu
Robert Policelli: rpolicelli@yahoo.com
John Francis Pollard: jfp32@cam.ac.uk
Stanislao G. Pugliese: stanislao.pugliese@hofstra.edu
Valerie Ramseyer: vramseye@wellesley.edu
Fabio F, Rizi: frizi@rogers.com
David D. Roberts: droberts@uga.edu
Biff Rocha: biffrocha@aol.com
Tracy Rogers: deaeterna@aol.com
Dennis Romano: dromano@maxwell.syr.edu
Colin Rose: crose@brocku.ca
Sarah G. Ross: sarah.ross.1@bc.edu
Teresa Pugh Rupp: rupp@msmary.edu
Eileen Ryan eileen.ryan@temple.edu
Filippo Sabetti: filippo.sabetti@mcgill.ca
Giulio Salvati: giulio.salvati@katamail.com
Marissa Sangimino: missasangimino@gmail.com
Anna Santucci: anna_santucci@brown.edu
Roland Sarti: sarti@history.umass.edu
Gustav Schachter: gschacte@lynx.neu.edu
Monika Anne Schmitter: mschmitt@arthist.umass.edu
Anne Schuchman: ams8050@nyu.edu
Anne J. Schutte: ajs5w@virginia.edu
Alexis Sexton: alexis.culotta@gmail.com
Mark Seymour: mark.seymour@otago.ac.nz
Emanuele Sica: emanuelesica@gmail.com
Stephanie B. Siegmund: siegmund@jtsa.edu
M. Jane Slaughter: mjane@unm.edu
Daniel Smail: smail@fas.harvard.edu
Steven Soper: stevesoper1@gmail.com
Peter Sposato: psposato@mail.rochester.edu
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Marla S. Stone: mstone@oxy.edu

Sharon Therese Strocchia: sstrocc@emory.edu
Susan M. Stuard: sstuard@haverford.edu
Geoffrey W. Symcox: symcox@history.ucla.edu
Claudio Tagliapetra : tagliapietra.claudio@gmail.com
Kathryn Taylor: kataylor@sas.upenn.edu
Lisa Taylor: hillary.anne.taylor@gmail.com
Corey Tazzara: ctazzara@ScrippsCollege.edu
Steven Teasdale: steven.teasdale@alumni.utoronto.ca
John Tedeschi: tede@mwt.net
Nicholas Terpstra: nicholas.terpstra@utoronto.ca
Eric Terzuolo: terzuolo@stanfordalumni.org
Catalina Toala: Catoala@umd.edu
Barry Torch: barrytorch@gmail.com
David Travis: travis@nyu.flourence.it
Christopher Trionfo: ctrionfo@gmail.com
Richard Tristano: rtristano@smumn.edu
Francesca Vassalle: fvassalle@gc.cuny.edu
Roberto Ventresca: rventres@uwo.ca
Matthew A. Vester: mvester@wvu.edu
Steven Vickers: sav303@gmail.com
Stefano Villani: villani@gmail.com
Nicolas Virtue: nvirtue@uwo.ca
Joseph Viscomi: jvj1983@yahoo.com
Joanna Vitiello joanna.carraway@rockhurst.edu
Justine Walden: justine.walden@utoronto.ca
Katie Walkowiak: kmw51688@yahoo.com
David J. Wallace: dwallace@english.upenn.edu
Maria Wells: mxwells@mail.utexas.edu
Andrea Wenz: abwenz@gmail.com
Elizabeth D. Whitaker: dixonwhitaker@usa.net
Steven White : white@msmary.edu
Corinne Wieben : medievalpast@gmail.com
Thomas Willette: willette@umich.edu
Lucia Wolf: luciawolf@mac.com
Robert Wohl: rwohl@ucla.edu
James Alan Young: jyoung17102@gmail.com
J. Benjamin Yousey-Hindes: yousey-hindes@stanford.edu
Zhuyun Zhang zhuyun.zhang@duke.edu
Carolyn Zimmerman: c.zimmerman@umiami.edu
T. C. Price Zimmermann: tcpzimmermann@aol.com
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The same methodological subtlety and interpretative panache informed de Grazia’s

News on the Rialto is an annual publication designed to provide an informational

Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is a museum and research center that

The application page can be found at https://www.wolfsonian.org/research/fellowships/.

For information, please contact:

UNICO National Scholarship Offerings 2018-2019:

Major Don S. Gentile Scholarship Alphonse A. Miele Scholarship

William C. Davini Scholarship Theodore Mazza Scholarship

Sergeant John Basilone Memorial Graduate Scholarship

Dr. Benjamin Cottone Memorial Scholarship

Bernard and Carolyn Torraco Memorial Nursing Scholarships

Ella T. Grasso Literary Scholarship

DiMattio Celli Family Study Abroad Scholarship

Guglielmo Marconi Engineering Scholarship

Robert J. Tarte Scholarship for Italian Studies - Temporarily Suspended

Ralph J. Torraco Scholarship

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Ralph J. Torraco Fine Arts Scholarship

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The UNICO Foundation will provide a scholarship, valued at $2,500 to a student

Eleanor and Anthony De Francis Scholarship Fund for Natural Sciences

California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The School of

The Barbieri Endowment awards an annual grant to a United States citizen to

The Society contributed four panels to the annual meeting:

The Crime of Honor: An Italian Story

2. Communism and Anticommunism in 20th-Century Italy

3. Post-Fascism and Post-Empire: Rebuilding Italy in the Wake of World War II

4. Economies of Trust in 16th- and 17th-Century Italy: A Panel in Honor of

SIHS PROGRAM AT THE 2018 AHA MEETING IN

Fascist Legacies: The Afterlife of Fascism in

Comment: Pamela L. Ballinger, University of Michigan

Politics, Culture, and Identity in 20th-Century

An All-Consuming Nationalism: Winemaking, Consumer Culture, and

Out of the Shadows: Industry and Its Social

Religion, State and Cultural Practices, and the

Society for Italian Historical Studies 4

Love, Sex, and Honor in the Italian South

Chair: Steven Hughes, Loyola University Maryland

Life on the Streets: Regulating Space and

Religion and Authority in Medieval and

Religion and Authority in Medieval and

Religion and Authority in Medieval and

SIHS Business Meeting

SIHS Social Hour

Political Catholicism and Christian Democracy

Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies: 2016-

October 14, 2016

November 11, 2016

May 12, 2017

October 13, 2017

November 10, 2017

April 13, 2018

Tuesday, September 26: Chancellor’s Suite Book Presentation — “The Routledge

Tuesday, December 5: Concert performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

Stanislao Pugliese, Professor of History and the Queensboro Unico Distinguished

The fall, 2017 program:

Tuesday, October 31, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, November 14, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, November 21, 7 p.m.