Stefano Vaccara, CUNY Graduate Center Stefano Vaccara is a Ph.D. student in History at the Graduate Center Cuny and an editor and columnist at America…

Ana Cara, Oberlin College Folklorist Ana Cara is the Chair of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College and has published a book on Jorge Luis Borges’…

Joseph Inguanti, Southern Connecticut State University Joseph J. Inguanti is an Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Connecticut State University.  His research interests include…

Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island, CUNY Giancarlo Lombardi will examine the role Paris plays in recent cinematic and literary texts about Italian terrorism.  Paris…

Christian Messenger Chris Messenger is the author of The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became “Our Gang” (2002) and Professor of English at…

Jennifer Gugliemo, William Paterson University In the post-World War II period, Italians in New York came to signify the quintessential blue-collar white ethnic conservative, as…

John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame History professor John McGreevy of the University of Notre Dame will speak on the experience of Joseph Vitolo,…

Thomas Guglielmo, University of Notre Dame Thomas Guglielmo, Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, will explore Italians’ encounters with race in Chicago and…

Goffredo Plastino, University of Newcastle Calabrian “malavita” songs represent a long musical tradition that is distributed regionally vis-à-vis cassette recordings.  Recently, this local music has…

Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University Peter Savastano earned his Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University in Madison.  Savastano, a native of Newark, belongs…

Nancy C. Carnevale Nancy C. Carnevale, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, will speak on the early twentieth century stage performer, Eduardo Migliaccio, aka Farfariello,…

“Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella.” — Gay Talese…