Curriculum Vitae

University of Denver

B.A., Economics and Women’s Studies, Summa Cum Laude, June 1998

 
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Modern Europe with an emphasis on Italy and Germany, Fascism, Colonialism, Borderlands, Gender, Comparative History

 
FELLOWSHIPS

Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan

• Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2008

University of Michigan

• Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, Winter 2007
• Institute for Historical Studies, Janey and Melvin Lack Graduate Research Fellowship, Summer 2006
• John H. D'Arms Graduate Student Award in the Humanities, Summer 2006
• History Department Fellowship, Fall 2006, Winter 2006, Winter 2004, Winter 2003
• History Department Research, Study and Travel Grant, Fall 2005, Summer 2005, Summer 2003
• Rackham Conference Travel Grants, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
• Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, 2004 - 2005
• Rackham Humanities Research Candidacy Fellowship, 2003
• Research Grant, Center of European Studies, Summer 2003
• Pre-Dissertation Research Award, International Institute, Summer 2002
• History Department Summer Research and Study Award, Summer 2001
• University of Michigan Fellowship in History, 2000-2001

University of Denver

• Social Science Foundation Fellowship, 1998-2000
• Partners in Scholarship, 1998
• Athletic Scholarship, 1995-1998

National College Athletic Association

• NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, 1998

 
PUBLICATIONS

Articles and Book Chapters

“Impero immaginato, impero vissuto. Recenti sviluppi nella storiografia del colonialismo italiano.” Ricerche di Storia Politica. 10, no. 1 (2007): 53-66.

In Progress:

“Confronting the Liminality of Border Spaces in the Fascist ‘nazione-impero’” in Scontro/Incontro: The ‘Hybrid’ Experience of Italy and its Colonies, edited by Jacqueline Andall and Derek Duncan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2008.

“Peering Beyond the Nation: Transnational Histories and the Lure of Empire in the Study of Italian Fascism” Journal article in progress.

A Tale of Two Borders: Settlement and National Transformation in Libya and South Tyrol under Fascism. Book manuscript in progress.

Reviews

In Ricerche di Storia Politica:

• Paolo Borruso. L'Africa al confino. La deportazione etiopica in Italia (1937-39).
• Nicholas Doumanis. Una faccia, una razza. Le colonie italiane nell'Egeo.
• Laura Ricci. La lingua dell'impero. Comunicazione, letteratura e propaganda nell'età del colonialismo italiano.
• Alessandro Volterra. Sudditi coloniali. Ascari eritrei 1935-1941.

In Polis:

• Jacqueline Andall and Derek Duncan, eds. Italian Colonialism. Legacy and Memory.

 
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND PRESENTATIONS

“Past Subjectivities, Today’s Historians”
Conference “Thinking Through the Cultural Turn: A Generation Reflects. Writing Histories in an Interdisciplinary and Transnational Age,” University of Puerto Rico, September 2007

“Islands of Italianness”
Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Colorado College, May 2007

“Colonial Cultures, Fascist Cultures”
Conference “From Resistance to Consensus to Negotiation: Changing Approaches to the History of Italian Fascism,” University of Michigan, April 2007

Cultivating Italy's “Fourth Shore”: Agricultural Settlers in Colonial Libya
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, January 2007

Does National History Really Matter Anymore? Perspectives on Modern Italy
Commentator and roundtable participant, Workshop with Victoria De Grazia, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan, September 2006

“Identity Dilemmas” in Colonial History
Commentator, African History Workshop with Megan Vaughn, University of Michigan, March 2006

“Europe's Civilization under Siege” – Assertions of Difference in the Absence of Race
Workshop “After the the Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Postfascist Germany,” University of Michigan, February 2006

“Fourth Shores” of Italian Fascism
Conference “Scontro/Incontro: The ‘Hybrid’ Experience of Italy and its Colonies,” Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, December 2005

“Mi trovo qui in mezzo a Italiani che non vogliono essere Italiani che se potessero ci vorebbero morti.” L’ONC e l’opera di italianizzazione in Sudtirolo tra le due guerre
Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea, Cantieri di Storia III, Bologna, September 2005

Colonization, Migration, Identities: Making Libya Italian – The Experience of Italian Settlers in Colonial Libya
Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, April 2005

Le “quarte sponde” del fascismo italiano
Presentation, University of Bologna, Interdisciplinary Study Group, Political Science Department, February 2005

Teaching Italianness: The Italianization Efforts of the Fascist Regime in South Tyrol
European Feminist Research Conference, Lund University, Sweden, August 2003

The Politics of Sentiment in Fascist Italy
Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, University of Illinois, March 2003

Center and Periphery: National Identities amidst Local Sentiments and Imperial Aspirations Midwest German Historians’ Workshop, University of Illinois, November 2002

 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Instructor, University of Michigan

HIST 208: Comparative Fascism, Fall 2007

Developed a lecture course introducing students to the primary theoretical and historiographical debates about fascism; material focused on the cases of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany while integrating the discussion of other examples that have been labeled fascist; fostered collaboration among students with the assignment of a group-based web project requiring students to research, collect, edit, and interpret primary and secondary source material pertaining to a topic of students’ choosing.

HIST 195: European Imperialisms: An Archive of Stories, Cartoons, and Film, Fall 2005

Selected after a competitive application process to independently teach a freshmen writing seminar; chose the topic, themes, readings, and assignments of the course; familiarized students with the conventions of historical analysis and argument; introduced them to the prevalent theories, categories, and themes of colonial and postcolonial studies; widened students’ conception of historical sources and archives; attuned students to the role of interpretation, argumentation, and contestation in the writing of history.

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan

HIST 318: Europe in the Era of Total War, Fall 2002

Faculty supervisor: Megan Koreman

HIST 322: Origins of Nazism, Winter 2002

Faculty supervisors: Kathleen Canning and Kerstin Barndt

HIST 318: Europe in the Era of Total War, Fall 2001

Faculty supervisor: Brian Porter

Responsible for teaching and evaluating three sections of approximately 25 students each; lead discussion of the weekly readings, revisited the major themes addressed in lecture, and placed the readings in a dialogue with the topics covered in lecture; relied on whole-group discussions, small-group activities, role plays, and close readings of text passages and images.

Michigan Teaching Fellow Certificate, May 2005

Highly selective seminar for advanced graduate students across the disciplines in preparation for a career in academia; focused on the challenges and responsibilities of teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students.

History Department Pedagogy Course, Fall 2005, Fall 2002

Participant in the departmental pedagogy seminar

 
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association
American Association for Italian Studies
Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea
Società Italiana delle Storiche

 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Conference Organizer

“Thinking Through the Cultural Turn: A Generation Reflects. Writing Histories in an Interdisciplinary and Transnational Age” University of Puerto Rico, September 24-26, 2007

• Co-organizer of a conference on the major historiographical, methodological, and theoretical developments across a variety of historical fields.
• Graduate student and faculty participants from the University of Michigan and the University of Puerto Rico.

“From Resistance to Consensus to Negotiation: Changing Approaches to the History of Italian Fascism” University of Michigan, April 27-28, 2007
Conference website

• Conceived the conference theme and organized the event in its details.
• Invited participants from the US, Europe, and Australia.
• Applied for and secured funding from a variety of institutes, departments, and programs.

Workshop Coordinator

“Visual Archives: Narrative and History in Film and the New Media,” Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Group, 2005-2006
Visual Archives website

• Conceived, organized, and coordinated a series of interdisciplinary lectures, presentations, panels, workshops and film screenings that explored the role of film in historical research and teaching in collaboration with another graduate student and select faculty.
• Applied for and secured funding from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies and several departments, institutions, and programs across campus.

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Michigan, Fall 2005, Winter 2005, Fall 2002

Graduate Student Mentor

University of Michigan, Fall 2002

Part of a select group of advanced graduate students who ran the training for first-time graduate student instructors in the History Department.

Assistant Ski Coach

University of Denver Varsity Ski Team, 1998-2000

Professional Ski Racer

Member of the Italian National Alpine Ski Team, 1987-1995

 
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

American Academy of Political and Social Science

• Graduate Fellow, 2006

University of Denver

• Keynote speaker at the Chancellor’s Dinner, 1998
• Undergraduate Studies Trophy, 1998
• Rita Braito Award in Women’s Studies, 1998
• Fagg Foster Award for Outstanding Senior in Economics, 1998
• Phi Beta Kappa Student Award, 1998
  Induction into Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior, 1997
• Nomination for Outstanding Senior, 1998
  Nomination for Outstanding Junior, 1997
• Scholar Athlete, 1998, 1997, 1996

 
LANGUAGES

Italian, native speaker
German, native speaker
English, excellent
Spanish, good

 
ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS

University of Denver Athletic Hall of Fame, 2005

Member of the University of Denver Varsity Ski Team, 1995-1998

Female Athlete of the Year, University of Denver, 1998, 1996

NCAA National Champion in Slalom, 1997, 1996

Four-time All-American, 1998, 1997, 1996

Silver and Bronze Medalist at the World University Games, South Korea, 1997

Italian National Ski Champion in Slalom, 1994, 1993