STANISLAO G. PUGLIESE, PH.D.Professor of History

Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian & Italian American Studies

Editorial Director & Fellow, Hofstra Cultural CenterHofstra University

Hempstead, New York 11549 USA516.463.5611

stanislao.pugliese@hofstra.eduWeb page: http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Stanislao_Pugliese/

Visiting Scholar, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU, 2014-15Visiting Scholar, Istituto Campano per la Storia della Resistenza, Naples, Fall 2010Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Romance Languages & Literature, Spring 2010Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford, June 2004Visiting Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington,

D.C. June 2003Visiting Research Fellow, Italian Academy, Columbia University, Spring 2001

EDUCATIONPh.D. Modern European History, City University of New York Graduate

School, 1995. M.A. in Modern European History, City College of New York, 1990.Certificato di Studio, Modern Italian Political History, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 1988. B.A. University Honors Degree in History & Philosophy, Hofstra University, 1987.

Phi Beta Kappa & Phi Alpha Theta

TEACHING EXPERIENCEFall 2009-present: Distinguished Professor, Hofstra UniversityFall 2004-present: Professor of History, Hofstra UniversityFall 2000-August 2004: Associate Professor of History, Hofstra UniversityFall 1995-Spring 2000: Assistant Professor of History, Hofstra UniversityFall 1994-Spring 1995: Instructor in History, Hofstra UniversityFall 1993: Adjunct Instructor in History, Hofstra

UniversityFall 1989-Spring 1993: Adjunct Lecturer, City College of New York, CUNY

CLASSES TAUGHTWestern Civilization I & II; Modern Europe; European Intellectual History; 20th Century Europe; Fascist Italy; Sex, Crime, and Violence in Venice

(Hofstra in Venice); Modern Italy; Intellectuals and Exile; History and the Holocaust; History of the Jews of Italy; European Historiography; Comparative Dictatorships; The Italian American Experience; Representations of the Holocaust; Italian Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the Resistance; Primo Levi; Sex, Crime & Violence in Italy; The Haunting of Modern Spain: Remembering and Forgetting the Spanish Civil War; History and Culture of Naples; Sex, Soccer & Sedition in Modern Italy; History of Soccer; History of the Mafia; Gangsters, Bimbos and Guidos: Confronting Italian American Stereotypes.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATIONModern Italy; Italian Fascism and Anti-Fascism; the Holocaust; Italian Jews; Italian-American History and Culture; Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe; Historiography.

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS

Dancing on a Volcano in Naples: Scenes from the Siren City Contracted with Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, June 2009.

New York Times Book Review, “Editor’s Choice” selection, August 30, 2009.Winner of the Fraenkel Prize, awarded by the Wiener Library of the Institute of Contemporary History, London. Finalist: National Book Critics Circle Award;Awarded the Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano per Italianistica, Pescara, Italy.Awarded the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize in Italian History by the American Historical Association, 2010.

Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome, Boca Raton, FL: Bordighera Press, 2002. Sons of Italy National Book Club Selection, Winter 2005.

Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999; Winner, 2000 International Ignazio Silone Prize. “Best Unpublished Manuscript,” Society for Italian Historical Studies, 1996.Runner-up, Fraenkel Prize, Institute for Contemporary History, London. Runner-up, Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas.

Carlo Rosselli. Socialista eretico ed esule antifascista (Italian translation by Davide Panzieri and Paolo Soddu) Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2001.

Carlo Rosselli: exilul socialist, eretic si antifascist (Romanian translation by Aurora Martin) Bucharest: Polirom, 2003.

Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile (Russian translation by Ildar Rismukhamedov)

Moscow: Praxis Publications, 2007.

EDITED VOLUMES

The Routledge History of Italian Americans, co-edited with William J. Connell. Forthcoming,

Routledge, 2017.Delirious Naples: For a Cultural History of the City of the Sun, co-edited with Pellegrino

D’Acierno, forthcoming, Fordham University Press, 2017.Football and the Boundaries of History: Critical Studies in Soccer, co-edited with Brenda Elsey, New

York: Palgrave, forthcoming, 2016.What is Italian America?, co-edited with George Guida. New York: Bordighera

Press, 2015.Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance, New York, London: Verso, 2013. After Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism After the Fall, New York: Fordham University

Press, 2011.Carlo Levi, Fear of Freedom, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.The Legacy of Primo Levi. New York: Palgrave, 2005.Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture, New York: Palgrave, 2004.Fascism, Anti-Fascism & the Resistance in Italy. Lanham, MD: Rowman &

Littlefield, 2004.The Political Legacy of Margaret Thatcher, London: Politicos, 2003.EDITED VOLUMES (CONT)

The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.Galeazzo Ciano, Diary, 1937-1943. New York: Enigma Books, 2002.Italian Fascism and Antifascism: A Critical Anthology. Manchester University Press, 2001.Renzo De Felice, The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History. New York: Enigma

Books, 2001.Nino Favara: The Essence of Sicily. Edited, with a foreword and translations (with Francesca

Favara Magliochetti), Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1999.

Contributing Editor, Seven Cultural Traditions, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

TRANSLATIONS

Salvatore Di Giacomo, “Era de maggio,” in Nexus (Amsterdam), n. 62 (2012): 94-98.Carlo Levi, “Fear of Painting,” in Fear of Freedom. New York: Columbia

University Press, 2008.Ignazio Silone, Memoir from a Swiss Prison, Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural

Communications, 2006; awarded the Ignazio Silone International Prize for Translation, 2007.

Ignazio Silone, “Memoir from a Swiss Prison,” in Dissent (Summer 2006). Ignazio Silone, “At the Foot of an Almond Tree,” July 2005.Andrea Bocelli, The Music of Silence, New York: William Morrow, 2001.

ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Resisting the Totalitarian Temptation: The Case of Ignazio Silone,” in Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob eds., Ideological Storms. Intellectuals and the Totalitarian Temptation (New York/Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017.)

“Three Wars and a Past That Will Not Pass,” in Claudio Pavone, A Civil War, New York: Verso, 2013.

“Preface” to Salvatore LaGumina, Hollywood and Italian Americans. New York: Teneo Press, 2012.

“Wrestling With Two Angels: Communism and Christianity in the Work of Ignazio Silone,” in New Directions in Italian and Italian-American History, Ernest Ialongo and William M. Adams, eds. New York: Studies in Italian Americana, v. 6, 2013, pp. 50-64.

“Answering Auschwitz: Science and Humanism as Antifascism,” in Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism After the Fall. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.

(A slightly different version appears as “Primo Levi’s Politics,” in New Reflections on Primo Levi, eds. Millicent Marcus and Risa Sodi, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.)

“Politiek als een ethisch ideaal. Het liberaal socialisme van Carlo Rosselli,” (Politics As An Ethical Ideal: Carlo Rosselli’s Liberal Socialism), in Europees humanisme in fragmenten. Grammatica van een ongesproken taal (European Humanism: The Grammar of a Silenced Language), edited by Rob Riemen. Amsterdam: Nexus Institute, 2008; adapted from Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile.

“Gendering the Resistance,” in Resisting Bodies: Narratives of Italian Women Partisans, Rosetta D’Angelo & Barbara Zaczek, eds. Chappell Hill, NC: Annali d’Italianistica, 2008.

“Rethinking an Assassination: The Deaths of the Rosselli Brothers,” in Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy, S. Gundle & L. Rinaldi, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2007.

“In Defense of Liberal Socialism,” Italian Americana, Winter 2007, pp. 23-36.

ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (CONT)

“Sciatap: L’America secondo Silone,” in Regione Abruzzo, December 2006, pp. 40-44;

in English as “Silone and America,” The Harvard College Journal of Italian American

History and Culture, vol. 1, n. 1 (Winter 2007). “Trauma/Transgression/Testimony” in The Legacy of Primo Levi, New York:

Palgrave, 2005.“Reflections From the Fountain,” afterword to Thomas V. Belmonte, The Broken

Fountain, 3rd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.“The Double Bind of Ignazio Silone: Caught Between the Archives and

Hagiography,” in Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy, eds. Guido Bonsaver and Robert Gordon, Oxford: Legenda, 2005.

“The Antidote to Fascism,” in Carla Pekelis, My Version of the Facts. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005.

“Longing, Loss and Nostalgia,” in Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and Italian American Culture,

New York: Palgrave, 2004.“Tortura incruente: i libri del ghetto di Roma sotto l’occupazione nazista,”

in Il libro nella Shoah, edited by Jonathan Rose. Milan: Edizioni Silvestre Bonnard, 2003; (Italian translation of “Bloodless Torture”), pp. 69-83.

“Carlo e Nello Rosselli nella cultura politica degli Stati Uniti,” in Politica, valori, idealità.

Carlo e Nello Rosselli maestri dell’Italia civile, Lauro Rossi, ed. Rome: Carocci, 2003, pp. 145-150.

“Resisting Fascism: The Politics and Literature of Italian Jews, 1922-1945,” in Forging Modern Jewish Identities: Public Faces and Private Struggles, edited by M. Berkowitz, S. Bloom, and S. Tananbaum. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003.

“Israel in Italy: Wrestling with the Lord in the Land of Divine Dew,” in The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy. Westport, CT: Greenwood, Press, 2002, pp. 1-10.

“Fuoruscitismo,” “Concentrazione Antifascista,” and “Emilio Lusso,” in Il Fascismo. Un dizionario critico, edited by V. De Grazia and S. Luzzatto. Turin: Einaudi, 2002, vol. I, pp. 329-331, 566-568; vol. II, pp. 65-66.

“Bloodless Torture: The Books of the Roman Ghetto Under the Nazi Occupation,” in The Holocaust and the Book. Jonathan Rose, ed. University of Massachusetts Press, 2001, pp. 47-58.

“Two Critiques Against the State,” Left History, vol. 7, no. 2 (Fall 2000), pp. 81-88. “The Italian Cinema” and “The Italian Press,” in Europe Since 1945. Bernard Cook, ed.

New York: Garland, 2000, pp. 672-677.“The Myth of Garibaldi,” in Italian Journal, vol. XVI, n.11 (Autumn 2000): 11-15. “Alla ricerca di un socialismo umanistico,” Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli,

XX, 68 (January 2000), pp. 101-106.“Reflections on the Priebke Affair,” The Italian Jewish Experience, Thomas DiNapoli,

ed. Stony Brook, NY: Fililibrary Series, 2000, pp. 117-126. Essays, Article “Garibaldi,” “Mazzini,” “Cavour,” “Verdi,” in Biographical Dictionary of

Literary Influences, 1800-1914, John Powell, ed. New York: Garland, 2000, pp. 80-81, 167-168, 430-431, 285-286.

“The Mazzini Society” and “Sacco and Vanzetti” in Italian-American History and

Culture: An Encyclopedia, Salvatore LaGumina, et.al., eds. New York: Garland Press, 2000, pp. 362-363, 562-563.

“The Italian-American Experience,” in The Italian-American Heritage. Pellegrino D’Acierno, ed. New York: Garland, 1999, pp., 691-702.

ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (CONT)

“Bloodless Torture: The Books of the Roman Ghetto Under the Nazi Occupation,” Libraries and Culture, v. 34, n. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 241-253; (reprinted 2001; translated 2003).

“Il mito del ritorno: Simbolo e memoria ne La luna e i falò di Cesare Pavese,” American Journal of Italian Studies vol. 21, n. 58 (1998), pp. 128-138.

“Resisting Fascism: The Politics and Literature of Italian Jews, 1922-1945,” in Memory, History

and Critique. F. Brinkuis and S. Talmor, eds. Utrecht: University for Humanist Studies

and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.“Italian Historiography” and twelve biographical entries in Global Encyclopedia of

Historical Writing. D.R. Woolf, ed. New York: Garland, 1998.“The Myth of Garibaldi,” in Giuseppe Garibaldi: Images & Icons (Hofstra University

Exhibit Catalog), Fall 1998.“Contesting Constraints: Amelia Pincherle Rosselli and Pre-Fascist Italy,”

Women in Judaism, vol. 1, n. 2 (Summer 1998) at www.utotonto.ca/wjudaism

“Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile,” Hofstra Horizons (Fall 1997), pp. 9-11.

“The Jews of Rome under Fascism, 1943-1944,” Mediterranean Perspectives. James E. Caraway, ed. Oakdale, NY: SSIPS, 1997, pp. 97-110.

“Death in Exile: The Assassination of Carlo Rosselli,” Journal of Contemporary History, v. 32, n.3 (July 1997), pp. 305-319.

“The Culture of Nostalgia: Fascism in the Memory of Italian-Americans,” Italian Politics

and Society, n. 44 (Fall 1995), pp. 12-17.Reprinted in The Italian-American Review, vol. 5, n. 2 (Autumn/Winter 1996/1997): 16-26; Reprinted at http://h-net2.msu.edu/~itam August 1,1997; Reprinted as “La cultura di nostalgia: fascismo nella memoria degli italo-americani,”in Altreitalie at www.fga.it/altreitalie, March 12, 1998.

“Resisting Evil: Italians and the Holocaust,” The Genocide Forum, I, n. 10 (June 1995), pp. 1-3.

“Italian Exiles in America, 1922-1945,” The Italian Journal, VII, nn. 4 & 5 (1993), pp. 32-35.

JOURNALISM“Hofstra Students’ Voices on the Feisty Hillary vs Trump,” La Voce di New York, September 27,

2016; in Italian as “Dibattito Clinton Trump: La voce degli studenti di Hofstra.”“Remembering Pino Daniele,” i-italy NY magazine, February-March, 2016,

p. 17.“The Voice, the Myth and the Immigrants’ Dilemma,” in i-Italy, v. 3, nn. 9-

10, 2015, pp. 28-29. “Sinatra, la Voce degli italoamericani,” in Il Mattino (Naples), December 12, 2015, pp. 1, 21.“Human Capital,” an interview with Paolo Virzì,

http://www.iitaly.org/39122/humancapital-ailing-soul-northern-italy“Morality and the Italian Civil War,” with Franco Baldasso,

http://www.publicbooks.org/interviews/morality-and-the-italian-civil-war-an-interview-with-stanislao-pugliese, December 2014

“A Specter Haunting Italy,” December 7, 2014 www.i-italy.org/37072/specter-haunting-italy

“Matera: Candidate for European ‘Capitale of Culture’ 2019,” October 2, 2013.

www.i-italy.org/36704/matera-candidate-european-capitale-culture-2019

“The Responsibility of the Historian,” in The Nation, January 28, 2013, p. 18.

“Celebrating Hanukkah With Italy’s First Female Rabbi,” in Ambassador, v. 22, n. 2,

December 2010, pp. 15-17.

http://dev.niaf.org/publications/ambassador/issues/ambassador_magazine_vol_22.2.pdf

JOURNALISM (CONT)

“Ferramonti: The Forgotten Italian Concentration Camp,” in Ambassador, v. 20. n. 4,

September 2009, pp. 24-27.http://dev.niaf.org/publications/ambassador/20.4/9-

FerramontidiTarsia.pdf “Earthquake at the Door,” New York Times, Op-Ed essay, April 7, 2009, p. A29.

www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07pugliese.html?_r=0 “Dopo i miti, il miracolo di un film,” in Oggi 7 in America Oggi, October 5, 2008.“Wine Dark Me,” in special edition of Italian Americana, (Fall 2007)

available online at http://italianamericana.com/pdf/PUGLIESE.pdf

“Primo Levi: al di là del suicidio,” in Oggi 7, special to America Oggi, April 15, 2007, p. 3. “On Soccer and Suffering,” Monthly Review Press, July 2006,

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/pugliese260706.html“Iraq, History and the Politics of Forgetting,” in The Chronicle (Hofstra

University), March 18, 2004, p. 8.“L’ultimo appuntamento di Silone,” in America Oggi, 17 August 2003; p. 15.“Ironia e paraddoso di Levi,” in America Oggi, 20 October 2002, p. 8.“In a Museum in Rome, Forgotten Partisans’ Stories,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 June

2001, pp. B13-14. http://chronicle.com/article/In-a-Museum-in-Rome-Forgotten/22289/“L’eredità di Silone,” in America Oggi, 30 April 2000, p. 5B.“Il Mazzini del XX secolo,” in America Oggi, 14 November 1999, p.10B.

BOOK, FILM, THEATER AND OPERA REVIEWS(Member: National Book Critics Circle, PEN America)

Book review editor, H-Italy, https://networks.h-net.org/h-italy, 2001-2006.Book review editor, H-Italian-American, https://networks.h-net.org/h-itam, 2002-2006.Contributor, Publishers Weekly, 1999-2006.Contributor, Kirkus Reviews, 1994-1999.

Maria Paynter, On Friendship and Freedom: The Correspondence of Ignazio Silone and Marcel Fleishmann,

forthcoming, Forum Italicum.Terence Ward, The Guardian of Mercy, in The Brooklyn Rail, forthcoming.Antonio Morena, Mussolini’s Decennale: Aura and Mythmaking in Fascist Italy, in VIA (Voices in

ItalianAmericana), forthcoming.Massimo Cacciari, Europe and Empire: On the Political Forms of Globalization in VIA (Voices in

ItalianAmericana), forthcoming.Rocco Rubini, The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism Between Hegel & Heidegger, in Forum

Italicum, vol. 50, no. 3 (November 2016).SINATRA: An American Icon, an exhibition at the New York Public Library Cullman Center, in

The Italian American Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (Winter 2016), pp. 147-49.Gianna Pontecorboli, Americordo: The Italian Jewish Exiles in America, March 23, 2016,

http://www.iitaly.org/node/41003 and in i-Italy NY (June 2016)Francesco Durante, Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943, in VIA, v. 26,

n. 2 (2015), pp. 98-100.

REVIEWS (CONT)

Benjamin Taylor, Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay, in Italica, v. 92, n. 4 (Winter 2015):

1004-05.Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema in Film Comment, July/August 2015, p. 79.David Aliano, Mussolini’s National Project in Argentina, in Altreitalie, N. 49 (Autumn 2014).“Viva la libertà” dir Roberto Andò, www.i-italy.org/38881/viva-la-libert November 11, 2014, Elena Agarossi and Victor Zaslavsky, Stalin and Togliatti: Italy and the Origins of the Cold War in

Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 48 (2014): 236-37.Maura E. Hametz, In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family and Patriotism in a Fascist Court,

in the Journal of Family History, v. 39, n. 1 (January 2014): 82-84.Renato Poggioli: An Intellectual Biography, Ludovico, Pertile, Riva, eds. in Annali d’Italianistica, v. 31,

2013.John Paul Russo and Robert Casillo, The Italian in Modernity, in Annali d’Italianistica, v. 31, 2013.Translating America, The Circulation of Narratives, Commodities, and Ideas Between Italy, Europe and the

United States edited by Marina Camboni, Andrea Carosso, Sonia Di Loreto & Marco Mariano, forthcoming in Italian Americana.

Jerome Krase, ed. The Status of Interpretation in Italian American Studies, in Forum Italicum, v. 47, n.

1 (May 2013), pp. 232-4.Marcella Bencivenni, Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, in American Historical Review, April 2012,

pp. 537-538.The Bread and the Rose, Achille Serrao and Luigi Bonafinni, eds. in Annali d’Italianistica, v. 30,

2012, pp. 419-21. Marisa Trubiano, Ennio Flaiano and His Italy, in Modern Italy, v. 16, n. 4, (November 2011), pp.

501-02.Sergio Parussa, Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony, in Modern Italy, v. 16, n. 2, (May 2010),

p. 214.Leucò va in America: Cesare Pavese nel centenario della nascita, in America Oggi, January 2, 2011.Scuorno by Francesco Durante online at http://www.i-italy.org/node/11841La Grande Italia by Emilio Gentile, in Catholic Historical Review, vol. 95, n. 4 (October 2009),

pp. 849-50. “Pavese, l’America e l’amore,” in America Oggi, August 16, 2009. Return to Naples by Robert Zweig, in America Oggi, February 1, 2009. The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi, edited by Robert S. C. Gordon, in Modern Italy, v. 5, n. 3

(August 2010); pp. 381-82. Alexander Stille, The Sack of Rome, in Italian Culture, v. 26, 2008, pp. 187-89.Primo Levi, A Tranquil Star, in Shofar, vol. 27, n1, Fall 2008, pp. 165-67. Michele Sarfatti, The Jews in Mussolini’s Italy: From Equality to Persecution, inCatholic Historical

Review, April 2008.Lutz Klinkhammer, Stragi naziste in Italia, 1943-1944, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 12, n.

4 (December 2007).Romano Mussolini, My Father, Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son, in

Forum Italicum, vol. 41, n. 1 (Spring 2007). “Primo Levi’s First Draft of History,” review of Primo Levi and Leonardo De

Benedetti, Auschwitz Report in The Jewish Forward, January 12, 2007; http://www.forward.com/articles/primo - levi - s - first - draft - of - history/

REVIEWS (CONT)

“Tragedy in Trieste,” review of Silvia Bonucci’s Voices from a Time in The Jewish Forward, 9 August 2006; http://www.forward.com/articles/a-trieste-tragedy/

“Excellent Cadavers,” film review, July 2006, online at http://www.h-net.org/~italy/“Cadaveri excellenti,” film review of “Excellent Cadavers” directed by Marco Turco, in

America Oggi, July 9, 2006.R. J. B. Bosworth, “Mussolini’s Italy,” in US Italia, Sunday, June 4, 2006, p. 3. “Questo, davvero, era un uomo,” theater review of “Primo,” America Oggi, July 31, 2005.Richard Drake, Apostles and Agitators: Italy’s Marxist Revolutionary Tradition in The

Journal of Modern History, Volume 77, n. 3 (September 2005).Paul Ginsborg, Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony in Publisher’s Weekly, June 7, 2004. Ray Moseley, Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce in Publisher’s Weekly (May 31, 2004).Tobias Jones, The Dark Heart of Italy in Publisher’s Weekly (April 19, 2004).Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism in Publisher’s Weekly (March 1, 2004).Peter Godman, Hitler and the Vatican in Publisher’s Weekly (January 26, 2004).Peter Neville, Mussolini in Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (Summer

2004).Piero Gobetti, Liberal Revolution, H-Italy (January 2004).Alan Perry, Il santo partigiano martire in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume

8, n. 4 (Winter 2003).A. James Gregor, Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism in Italian

Americana, vol. XXI, n. 1 (Winter 2003), pp. 112-113.“Un viaggio nelle radici; quelle vere,” (review of Stolen Figs by Mark Rotella), America Oggi, 14

September 2003; pg. 22; English translation “The Pleasure of Stolen Figs,” printed in

(12 October 2003). The Grey Zone, dir. Tim Blake Nelson, (2002) in The American Historical Review

vol. 108, n. 3 (June 2003).Book, Film & Opera Antonio Bechelloni, ed. Carlo e Nello Rosselli e l’antifascismo europeon in

the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 8, n. 2 (Summer 2003).

Bill Tonelli, ed. The Italian American Reader (New York: HarperCollins, 2003) on H-

ITALY http://www.h - net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi? path=121051057291899.Paul Ginsborg, Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State, in The

New York Times Book Review, 23 February 2003; reprinted at H-

ITALY http://www.h - net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi? path=255561058849263.

Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary, dir. André Heller, (2002) in The American Historical Review, vol. 108.

n. 1 (February 2003).Massimo Mila. Argomenti strettamente famigliari: Lettere dal carcere, 1935-1940, in the Journal of Modern

Italian Studies (Fall 2002).Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics by Robert S. C.

Gordon, in Forum Italicum (Fall 2002).On The Spine of Italy: A Year in the Abruzzi by Harry Clifton. New York:

Macmillan, 2000 on H-Italy, October 2002. http://www.h - net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=124791059720162 .

Fenoglio’s Binoculars, Johnny's Eyes, by Philip Cooke, in Modern Italy vol. 7, n. 2 (Autumn 2002).

Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness, Roberta S. Kremer, ed., in Modern Italy vol. 7, n. 2 (Autumn 2002).

A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair by Daniel J. Goldhagen, in Publishers Weekly, 23 September 2002, pp. 57-58.

REVIEWS (CONT)

Amelia Rosselli. Memorie in America Oggi, 28 July 2002, p. 11; originally in Sissco Annuale III 2002; English translation on H-Italy, June 2002.

Ross King, Brunelleschi’s Dome. New York: Walker & Co., 2001, H-Italy, May 2002

http://www.h - net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=213741058571836 “I buchi neri di una strage,” in America Oggi, 24 March 2002, “Oggi 7,” p. 4; reprinted in

English as Alessandro Portelli, L’ordine è gia stato eseguito. H-Italy, March 2002 http://www.h - net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi? path=292851058686841.

“The Way We Laughed,” dir. Gianni Amelio, in American Historical Review, vol. 107. n.1. (February 2002).

“Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” dir. John Madden, in American Historical Review, vol. 106, n. 5 (December 2001).

Cesare Pavese. Una vita imperfetta by Vincenzo Binetti in Modern Italy vol. 6, n. 2 (November

2001), pp. 238-239.Hitler and the Holocaust by R. Wistrich, in Publishers Weekly, 3 September

2001, pp. 76-77.Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World by Peter D’Epiro

and Mary Desmond, in Publishers Weekly, September 3, 2001, p. 80.October 16, 1943/Eight Jews by Giacomo Debenedetti, in Publishers

Weekly, August 13, 2001, pp. 302-303.

Fighting the Mafia and Renewing Sicilian Culture by Leoluca Orlando, in Publishers Weekly, August 13, 2001, p. 303.

Maria Nicolai Paynter, Ignazio Silone: Beyond the Tragic Vision, in Italian Politics and Society, n. 54, Summer 2001.

Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi

Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); and Hitler’s Italian

Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) by MacGregor Knox, in Italian

Politics and Society, n. 55, Spring 2002.Antonio Gramsci and the Anarchists by Carl Levy in American Historical

Review, vol. 106, n. 3 (June 2001).“I cento passi,” dir. Marco Tullio Giordana, in American Historical Review,

vol. 106, n. 3 (June 2001).“Malena,” dir. Giuseppe Tornatore, in American Historical Review, vol. 106,

n. 2 (April 2001). “Levi sconosciuto e pubblico,” in America Oggi, April 22, 2001, 5B.“Dietro il simbolo, gli uomini,” in America Oggi, March 25, 2001, 4B-5B.Blackshirts in Little Italy: Fascism and Italian Americans by Philip V. Cannistraro, in

Italian Americana, v. XIX, n. 2 (Summer 2001); reprinted at H-ITALY http://www.h - net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=17661066521831 .

“Parole e ricordi nella storia,” in America Oggi, March 11, 2001, 4B.“I fallimenti di un Papa,” in America Oggi, January 21, 2001, 15B.A Nation Collapses: The Italian Surrender of September 1943 by Elena Aga Rossi, in

The Italian Journal, vol. XVI, n. 11, (Autumn 2000): 42“Una storia di memorie,” in America Oggi, December 10, 2000, 4B.“Fascinating Fascism in North America,” in Left History, v.7, n.1 (Spring 2000): 115-118.“Una cupola per umanità, in America Oggi, November 12, 2000, 5B.“Quei fascisti italoamericani,” in America Oggi, October 29, 2000, 16B.“Una vita tormentata,” in America Oggi, October 15, 2000, 15B.REVIEWS (CONT)

“Un genero maladetto,” in America Oggi, October 1, 2000, 4B.“La sconfitta necessaria,” in America Oggi, September 10, 2000, 5B.Father/Land: A Personal Search for the New Germany by Frederick Kempe

and From Weimar to the Wall: My Life in German Politics by Richard Von Weizsäcker, January 3, 2000, The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“Tea With Mussolini” (film) dir. Franco Zeffirelli, 1999. American Historical Review, vol. 104, n. 5 (December 1999): 1809-1810.

A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 by David Vital in The Philadelphia

Inquirer, September 5, 1999.“Antifascism(s),” Italian Politics and Society, n. 50 (Autumn 1998): 92-96.Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe, by Vladimir Tismaneanu, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 12,1998; reprinted at

http://books.realcities.com/reviews/0713/salvation.htm“Fascism: The Cultural Side,” Italian Politics and Society, n. 49 (Spring 1998): 80-84.Modern Italy: A Political History by Denis Mack Smith, History Reviews On Line at www.depauw.edu/~dtrinkle/hrol/reviews.htmlx, Fall 1998.The First World War and Its Consequences [CD ROM] Journal of MultiMedia History, vol. 1, n. 1,

September 1998 at Varieties of Cultural History by Peter Burke at

www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=7371903016802, August 1998.“Fascinating Fascism,” review essay Italian Politics and Society, n. 48

(Autumn 1997): 71-75; Reprinted at www.laurentian.ca/www/polsci/ips/48-11.htm

The Kidnaping of Edgardo Mortara, by D. Kertzer; The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29,1997.Italian Journalism, ed. R. Lumley; Italian Politics and Society, n.47 (Spring

1997): 72-73.Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968, by Luisa Passerini. www.h-

net.msu.edu/h-italy/reviews; 24 February, 1997; www.h-net.msu.edu/h-it-am/reviews; 25 February 1997; Sozial und Kulturgeschichte, www.h-soz-u-kult, May 16,1997.

Italian Politics: Ending the First Republic. Mershon and Pasquino, eds.; Italian Politics

and Society, n. 46 (Fall 1996): 53-56.Fascism: Past, Present, Future, by Walter Laqueur, The Philadelphia

Inquirer, 28 April 1996.The Ideology of Death, by John Weiss; The Philadelphia Inquirer, 25 February 1996.Getting the Boot: Italy’s Unfinished Revolution, by Matt Frei; The Philadelphia Inquirer,

November 12, 1995.The Naked Heart, by Peter Gay; The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 15, 1995.A Concise History of Italy by C. Duggan; in The Italian Journal, vol. VIII, nn.

5-6 (1994): 72-73.

PAPERS PRESENTED

2016 “A Meditation on Ruins: From Silone’s Stones of Purgatory to Belmonte’s Broken Fountain,” American Association Teachers of Italian annual conference, Naples, Italy.

2015 “Scenes From the Siren City,” Symposium on Naples, Calandra Italian American Institute, NYC.

“My Memories of Calabria,” Symposium on Calabria, Calandra Italian American Institute, NYC.

PAPERS PRESENTED

2013 “Wrestling With Two Angels: Communism and the Catholic Church in the Work of Ignazio Silone,” Bard College.

“Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism,” Seton Hall University.

2012 “Wrestling With Two Angels: Ignazio Silone, Communism and the Catholic Church,” Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

“Naples and New York: Culture and Spectacle Along the 41st Parallel,” California State University, Long Beach.

2011 “Resisting the Totalitarian Temptation,” Ideological Storms: Intellectuals and the Totalitarian Temptation” Conference, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.

“Dancing on a Volcano: Attempting a Popular History of Naples,” Conference in Honor of Phil Cannistraro, John Calandra Italian American Institute, NYC.

“An Ideology of Compensation: Fascism and the Ethiopian War in the Italian American Community,” Hofstra University 75th Anniversary Conference.

2010 “On Finding Oneself in Another Country: History, Biography and Autobiography”Conference: “Is an Italian American History Possible?” Stony Brook Manhattan.

2009 “Primo Levi and the Double Bind/Bond of Memory”; Giorno della Memoria, Calandra Italian American Institute, New York.

2008 “Primo Levi’s Politics: Giustizia e Libertà, the Partito d’Azione and ‘Jewish’ Antifascism,” Yale University Conference on Primo Levi and

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS), Taormina, Italy.

2007 “Reflections on Immigration,” Ellis Island Opening Ceremony for “Sicilian Crossings.” “The Ignazio Silone Scandal,” American Historical Association annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

2006 “Ignazio Silone and America,” American Italian Historical Association annual conference, Orlando, Florida.“Italian Americans, Labor, and Unions in American History,” Stony Brook University, Manhattan Campus. “Five Centuries of Italian Jewish Life,” Westport, CT.

PAPERS PRESENTED

2005 “Carlo Rosselli’s Heretical Socialism,” Queens College, CUNY“The Double Bind of Ignazio Silone: Between Archive and Historiography,” at the New York State European Historians’ Annual Meeting, West Point, NY.“The Image of Brooklyn in the Minds of Italians,” Italian American Lecture Series, Hofstra University.

2004 “Longing, Loss, and Nostalgia: Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” American Italian Historical Association, Long Island Chapter. “Frank Sinatra,” 92nd Street “Y” Makor Center, NYC.“The First Post-Marxist: Carlo Rosselli’s Heretical Socialism,” Columbia University Seminar on Political Economy.“The Most Ancient of Minorities: 2000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Bronfmann-Wiener Lecture, Williams College.“Longing, Loss, and Nostalgia: Frank Sinatra and Italian American

Culture,” Hofstra University Italian American Lecture Series.

2003 “Rethinking an Assassination: Mussolini and the Rosselli Brothers,” Association for the Study of Modern Italy Conference, “Assassinations, Murders and Mysteries in Modern Italy,” London (paper read in my absence).“Trauma, Transgression, Testimony,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. “The First Post-Marxist: Carlo Rosselli’s Heretical Socialism,” invited speaker at

the “Victor Serge and Anti-Totalitarian Socialism” international conference, Moscow (paper read in my absence).“Italian-Jewish Anti-Fascism,” Issues in Judaism Series, Hofstra University.“The Paradox and Irony of Primo Levi,” the B. C. Fish. M.D. Featured Lecture of the Year at Pathway’s Women’s Health Adult Seminar, Manhasset, NY.

2002 “Reconsidering Jewish Anti-Fascism,” Yeshiva University.“The Beautiful Idea: Italian Anarchism from Malatesta to Tresca,” Hofstra University Symposium on the 75th Anniversary of the Executions of Sacco & Vanzetti.“Italian American Stereotypes in American Popular Culture,” Hofstra University Italian American Lecture Series. “The Most Ancient of Minorities: 2000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library.“Primo Levi’s Atheism and the Moral Politics of His Suicide,” invited speaker, Siena Spirituality Center, Water Mill, NY.

2001 “The Culture of Nostalgia: Fascism in the Memory of Italian Americans” invited

speaker; American Italian Historical Association conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.“The First Post-Marxist: Carlo Rosselli’s Heretical Socialism,” University of Michigan.

PAPERS PRESENTED

2000 “Fascism and Anti-Fascism in the Italian American Community, 1922-2000,”

American Italian Historical Association, Westbury, NY.“Carlo e Nello Rosselli,” Campidoglio, Rome; Nello Rosselli centenary.“The Heretical Socialism of Carlo Rosselli,” Italian Cultural Institute,

Toronto.“Poems Before Death: Anti-Fascist Graffiti from a Nazi Prison in Rome,”

NYSAEH, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY

“Italian Jewish Anti-Fascism,” Mid-Island “Y”, Plainview NY.“The First Post-Marxist: The Heretical Socialism of Carlo Rosselli,” Harvard

University Center for European Studies.“Carlo Rosselli, Primo Levi and Italian Jewish Antifascism,” Hillcrest Jewish

Center, NY.

1999199 1999 “Alla ricerca di un socialismo umanistico” invited speaker at the centenary of

Carlo Rosselli’s birth, 15 November 1999 at the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.

“The Political Spectrum of Twentieth-Century Italy,” Richmond College,

Florence, Italy.“Recent Developments in Italian Historiography,” Italian Cultural Society, Long

Island.

1998 “The Priebke Affair: On Massacres, Trials, History and Memory,” Stony Brook

University, NY. “The Myth of Garibaldi,” Garibaldi Symposium, Hofstra University.“The First Ghetto: History of the Jews of Italy,” Hofstra University.“La morte in esilio: l’assassinio di Carlo Rosselli,” Italian Cultural

Institute, Paris.“Representations of the Holocaust,” Danforth Associates, Pawling, NY.“Bloodless Torture: The Books of the Roman Ghetto Under the Nazi

Occupation,” Italian-American Lecture Series, Hofstra University.

1997 “The Historians’ Controversy: Recent Attempts to Master the Holocaust,” Issues

in Judaism series, Hofstra University.“Poems Before Death: Graffiti from a Nazi Prison Cell in Rome, 1943-

1944,” Italian-American Lecture Series, Hofstra University.

“The Struggle to Interpret the Holocaust,” Peninsula Public Library, Lawrence,

NY.“Two Critiques Against the State: Errico Malatesta and Carlo Rosselli,” New

York State Political Science Association, John Jay College, New York.“The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti,” Hofstra University.

1996 “History and Culture of Italian Jews under the Nazi Regime,” Peninsula Public Library; Lawrence High School.“Carlo Rosselli’s Liberal Socialism,” Hofstra University, Great Books

Series.“Bloodless Torture: The Books of the Roman Ghetto Under the Nazi

Occupation,” Drew University, New Jersey.“Carlo Rosselli’s Legacy,” Casa Italiana, Columbia University, New

York, NY.

PAPERS PRESENTED

“Fascism and Anti-Fascism in the Italian-American Community of New York

City,”Italian-American Lecture Series, Hofstra University.“Resisting Fascism: Memory and Identity of Italian Jews,” Utrecht,

Holland.“The Jews of Rome Under Fascism,” Dante Alighieri Institute, Rome,

Italy.“Italian Anti-Fascist Volunteers and the Spanish Civil War,” Siena

College, NY.

1995 “The Culture of Nostalgia: Fascism in the Memory of Italian-Americans,”

National Conference on Italian-American Studies, New York, NY.

“The Dreyfus Affair and French History,” Hofstra School of Continuing Education.

“Carlo Rosselli and Italian Anti-Fascism,” Hofstra University History Seminar.“The Vichy Syndrome: History, Myth, and Memory in Post-World War

II France,” Drama Department, Hofstra University.

1994 “The Language of the Witness: Italian Jews under Fascism,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

“Between Liberalism and Marxism: Carlo Rosselli’s Analysis of Fascism,” New

York State Association of European Historians; Cornell University.

AWARDS & HONORS

Member, Comitato Scientifico, Archivio Storico del Sannio, Benevento, Italy.

Lehman-LaGuardia Award for Civic Achievement, awarded by the Commission for

Social Justice (Order Sons of Italy in America) and the Metro North Region of B’nai B’rith International, May 22, 2011.

Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History (for Bitter Spring), American

Historical Association, 2010.Inaugural Fellow & Visiting Scholar, ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars of North

America Foundation) at INSMLI, (National Institute for the History of the

Movement for Liberation in Italy), Naples, Fall 2010.Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano per Italianistica, Pescara, Italy, July 4, 2010.Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Spring 2010.Hofstra University Alumni Achievement Award, 2009.Wexler Family Memorial Lectures, West Hempstead Jewish Center, Fall 2009. Puffin Foundation Grant ($700) for “Stones of Purgatory: A Photographic Exhibit”Sons of Italy, National Book Club Selection, Bitter Spring, Summer 2009.Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Library of the Institute of Contemporary History, London, 2008

for Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone.International Ignazio Silone Translation prize for Memoir from a Swiss Prison, 2007. Geno Baroni Award for best essay, Italian Americana, 2006: “In Defense of Liberal

Socialism.”Puffin Foundation Grant ($1,000) for Carlo Levi, Fear of Freedom, 2006.National Italian American Foundation Grant for Distinguished Professorship

in Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University ($5,000), 2006.

Annual Sephardic Lecture, Temple Israel, Westport, CT; March 2006.Lecturer, Sally First Endowed Lecture Series, Merrick Jewish Center, March 2006. Honorable M. Marvin Berger Memorial Lecture, Hillcrest Jewish Center, Flushing, NY.Presidential Research Award, Hofstra University, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,

2011, 2012, 2013.Member, Center for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence, Hofstra University, 2005-2008.2005 Teacher of the Year Award, Association of Italian American Educators.Sons of Italy National Book Club Selection, Desperate Inscriptions, Winter 2005.

Remarks, Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony, Hofstra University, April 2005.Leonard Hastings Schoff Award at Columbia University ($3,500) for a Russian

translation of Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile, March 2005.The Bronfman-Wiener Lecture at Williams College, September 2004.Visiting Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, June 2004.National Italian American Foundation grant ($2,000) for Frank Sinatra: History, Identity, and

Italian American Culture.Visiting Research Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Summer 2003.Nominated by Hofstra University for an NEH Senior Faculty Award, 2002.Visiting Fellowship, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, 2001.

City University of New York Alumni Achievement Award, 2001.Silone Prize, for Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile, March 2000.Dr. Louis Cooper Memorial Lecture, Hillcrest Jewish Center, March 2000.Peter E. Herman Literary Award, Hofstra University, April 1999.Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Hofstra University, February 1999.Hofstra University Presidential Research Award, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010.

2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.Runner-Up, Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Library/Institute of Contemporary History,

London,1998.Hofstra University Faculty Research and Development Grant, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000,

2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2-14, 2015.Columbia University, Leonard Hastings Schoff Publication Subsidy, 1997.National Italian-American Foundation Grant, 1997.Order Sons of Italy, New York Grand Lodge Grant, 1997.Citation, Associazione Castelvetranesi d’America, 1997.Society for Italian Historical Studies Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript, 1996.Nominated by Hofstra for NEH Junior Faculty Award, 1996.Mellon Dissertation Stipend, Summer 1995.National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend, April 1995.City University of New York “University Fellowship”, 1990-1992.Who’s Who Among American Graduate Students, 1991 & 1993.City University of New York Fellowship, 1987-1990.Harold W. McGraw Graduate School Fellowship, 1987-1990.Phi Beta Kappa & Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Societies.

Hofstra University Honor’s Degree, 1987.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Series Editor, Italian and Italian-American Studies, Palgrave, 2003-present.Founding Member, American Association of Italian Studies Caucus on Italian Jewish Studies.Member, Executive Council, Italian American Studies Association, Long Island Chapter.Moderator & Facilitator, Foreign Policy Association, Great Decisions, Hewlett Public

Library, 2010-present.Advisory Board, Association of Italian American Educators, 2013-present.Book Presentation, Renato Camurri, ed. Gaetano Salvemini, Lettere Americane, 1927-1949, Center for

Italian Modern Art, NYC, April 2016.Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra and the Contradictions of Italian American Stereotypes,” Stony

Brook University, Center for Italian Studies, April 2016.Respondent, Rosario Forlenza’s “Resurrections and Rebirths in the Archeology of Memory: The

Risorgimento in Twentieth Century Italian Political Discourse,” Columbia University

Modern Italy Seminar, April 2016.Invited Speaker, Renzo De Felice’s The Jews in Fascist Italy; a roundtable at Calandra Italian

American Institute, January 2016. Introductory Remarks, Frank Lentricchia’s Reading of The Morelli Thing, Book Culture NYC,

December 1, 2015. Respondent, Josh Arthur’s “The Fall of Mussolini,” Columbia University Modern Italy Seminar,

April 17, 2015. Book Presentation, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema, Casa Italiana, NYU, April 9,

2015.Book Presentation, Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance, Italian

Cultural Institute, NYC, May 2014.Book Launch, Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance,

European Institute, Columbia University, December 2013.

Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi’s Humanism,” Ramapo College, NJ, October 26, 2011.Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” Long Island Regional

Chapter/American Italian Historical Association, Westbury, NY, March 18, 2011. Invited Speaker, “Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone,” Bacio Italian American Society,

Bridgeport, CT, March 15, 2011.Invited Speaker, “On Finding Oneself in Another Country: Thoughts on History, Biography

and Subjectivity in the Light of Italy,” Stanford University, February 22, 2011. Invited Speaker, “History of the Jews in Italy,” Hutton House Lecture, C.W. Post,

November 10, 2010. Invited Speaker, “Re-Thinking Italian American Studies,” Calandra Institute, Manhattan,

September 10-11, 2010. Invited Speaker, “Ignazio Silone”, Italian American Museum, NYC, May 27, 2010.Invited Speaker, “20th Century Italy,” Society for Italian Culture of Long Island, Garden

City Public Library, May 23, 2010. Dissertation Committee, Ernest Ialongo, Ph.D. History, CUNY Graduate School, May 2009. Roundtables, “A Pleasant Fascist: The Memoirs of Romano Mussolini,”

“Resisting Bodies: Women in the Italian Resistance,”Annual Conference of the AAIS, Taormina, Italy, May 2008.

Invited Speaker, “2000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Montclair State University, April 14,

2008. Invited Speaker, “The Holocaust in Italy,” Italian American Women’s Center, Manhasset,

September 15, 2007. Invited Speaker, Symposium on Primo Levi, Padova, Italy; June 26, 2007 (declined).Invited Speaker, “Showcase Italian: Pedagogical Approaches to Italian

Language, Italian Studies, and Italian American Studies,” Rutgers, March 2007.

Panel Chair, two panels, American Italian Historical Association annual conference, 2006. Panel Chair, “The New Europe,” Conference at Stony Brook University, April 2005.Executive Committee, American Italian Historical Association, 2004-2007.

Guest Curator, Photo Exhibition: “Poems Before Death: Graffiti From the Nazi Prison in Rome,” John J. Calandra Italian American Museum, CUNY, February 2004.

Referee, American Council of Learned Societies (European History), 2003.Dissertation Committee, Maria Luisa Graziano, Columbia University, September 2003.Panel Chair, Conference: “The Italian American Press: Its History and Its Future,”

Hunter College, May 2003.Invited Speaker, “Invito al ricordo di Carlo e Nello Rosselli,” Florence, Italy, June 2003.Closing Remarks, “Reflections on Exile” at the international conference,

“Beyond the Patria: Exile, Border Crossing and Transnationalism in the Spanish-Speaking World,” Hofstra University, April 2003.

Advisory Editor, Routledge Press, 1998-2003.Manuscript Reader, Yale University Press, University of Nebraska Press,

Fordham University Press, Penguin, St. Martin’s Press, HarperCollins, Rowman & Littlefield, SUNY Press, Lexington Books, Patterns of Prejudice, Pearson/Longman, The Humanities and Social Science Foundation of Canada, MLA, Transformations, Pluto Press, Northern Illinois University Press, Forum Italicum.

Book Review Editor-in-Chief, H-Italy, (www.h-net.org/~italy), 2001-2006.Book Review Editor-in-Chief, H-Italian-American (www.h-net.org/~itam), 2002-2006.Member, National Book Critics Circle, 1995-present.Board of Editors, Italian Journal, Italian Academy Foundation, 1992-2000.Associate Member, Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Modern Italy, 1997-Chair, “Utopias?” New York State Political Science Association Meeting, April 1997.Invited Discussant, “Political Theorists and the Contemporary City,” New York State

Political Science Association Meeting, Ithaca College, March 1996.NEH Participant, “Italy and America, 1943-1944,” University of Connecticut, April 1995.Participant, Survivors of the Shoah, Oral History Seminar; October 1994.Member, CCNY Committee on Core Courses, 1990-1993.

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

Adviser, Phi Alpha Theta National History Honors Society, 2008-2013, 2015, 2016.Assistant Chair for Advisement, 2012-2013.Reader, Kathy Roedel Department Honor’s Thesis, June 2009.Reader, Jessica Knobler Department Honor’s Thesis, Spring 2008.Chair, Ad-Hoc Tenure Committee for Dr. Benjamin Talton, Fall 2007.

Reader, Jennifer Hernandez Department Honor’s Thesis Committee, 2006.Chair, History Department DPC, Fall 2003-2005.Chair, Ad-Hoc Tenure Committee for Dr. Sally Charnow, Fall 2004-Spring 2005.Chair, Ad-Hoc Tenure Committee for Dr. Simon Doubleday, Fall 2001-Spring 2002.Interim Chair, Department Personnel Committee, Fall 2000, Fall 2002-Spring 2003.Department representative, University Committee on new history building, 2003-2004.Coordinator, Alumni Mentor Program, 1996-present.Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1998-2000.Member, Teaching and Profession Committee, 1996-2002.Member, Curriculum Committee, 2003-2004.Co-Advisor, Hofstra Historical Society, 1995-1997.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Editorial Director, Hofstra Cultural Center, 2013-present.Hofstra Cultural Center Fellow, 2010-present.Hofstra Cultural Center Advisory Board, 2013-present.Lecture Series Director, “The Italian-American Experience,” 1996-present.Member, Dean Firestone Fellowship Committee, 2016.Chair, Ad Hoc Promotion Committee for Professor Gregory M. Pell, Fall 2015.Conference Co-Director, “Hofstra Celebrates Sinatra: A Centenary Tribute”, November 2015.Conference Co-Director, “Soccer as the Beautiful Game,” April 2014.Invited Speaker, “The Holocaust and the Vatican,” Issues in Judaism, April 2015.Invited Speaker, Amara Lakhous, “Clash of Civilizations in Italy?” December 2, 2014.Invited Speaker, Ann Pizzorusso, “Tweeting DaVinci” November 19, 2014.University Representative, Fall Open House, October 26, 2014.Invited Speaker, Fred Kuwornu, Ghanaian-Italian filmmaker, screenings and discussion for

Black History Month, February 2014. Lecture Organizer, Annie Lanzillotto, “L is for Lion,” September 2013.Lecture Organizer, Carlin Romano, “America the Philosophical,” September 2013.Conference Co-Director, “E Pluribus: What Is Italian America?” 45th annual conference of

the Italian American Studies Association, November 2012. Invited Speaker, “Assimilation, Integration, Anti-Semitism: Five Centuries of Italian Jewish

History,” for Issues in Judaism Series, November 2012.

University Liaison, “United Academia Project,” United Nations and the Region of Puglia, Italy.Pre- and Post-Debate Discussion, 2012 Presidential Debate, October 16, 2012.Host, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, Italy’s First Female Rabbi, campus lecture, March 13, 2012.Special Conference Advisor, “Delirious Naples: For a Cultural, Intellectual and Urban History

of the City of the Sun,” November 16-19, 2011.Invited Guest Speaker, Italian author Erri De Luca, Filderman Gallery, November 8, 2011.Special Conference Advisor, “For A Dangerous Pedagogy: A Manifesto for Italian and Italian

American Studies,” April 2010.Member, President’s Commission on Student Retention, 2010. Member, Committee on Hofstra University’s 75th Anniversary.Member, Ad-Hoc Promotion Committee, Professor David Green, Political Science. Italian Study Abroad Grant, $1,500 annually from Italian Heritage Association for a Hofstra

Student, 2008, 2009. Pre- and Post-Debate Discussion, 2008 Presidential Debate, October 2008.Speaker, “Fascist Italy and America,” “Postwar Italy and America,” “Contemporary Italy

and America,” Italian American Lecture Series, Fall 2008. Member, Ad- Hoc Tenure Committee for Dr. David Kaufman, Department of Religion, 2008. Panel Chair, “At Whom Are We Laughing: Humor in Romance Language Literatures,”

Spring 2008.Conference Director: “Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism

After the Fall,” April 2007. Speaker, “The Myth of Garibaldi,” Italian American Lecture Series, October 2007. Invited Speaker, Poet and Writer’s Piazza, Italian Festival, 16 September 2007. Member, Ad-Hoc Tenure Committee for Dr. Amy Baehr, Fall 2007. Conference Committee, “Defining Culture Through Dress,” April 2007.Member and Faculty Advisor for Publishing, Center for Teaching and

Scholarly Excellence, 2005-2008. Faculty Mentor, Center for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009. Speaker, “Silone’s Prison Memoir,” for the Italian American Lecture Series, May 2007.Chair, Ad-Hoc Promotion Committee for Professor Leslie Feldman, 2006.

Member, Ad-Hoc Tenure Committee for Dr. Julie Byrne, Department of Religion, 2006.Department Representative, Hofstra University Open House, November 2006. Guest Speaker, “Liebe Perle” The Disabled in Nazi Germany, film screening, March 2006. Director, Symposium on Fiorello LaGuardia, May 2005.Member, Ad-Hoc Tenure Committee for Dr. David Green, 2004-2005.Guest Curator, Moderator, Panelist, Bill Clinton Presidential Conference, 2004-2005.Member, Committee for the Panel on the Impeachment, Clinton Conference, 2004-2005.Panel Speaker, AAUP workshop for Not-Yet-Tenured Faculty, October 2003.Speaker, “The Slow Food Movement,” for the Italian American Lecture Series, October 2003. Member, HCLAS Faculty Personnel Board, Fall 2002-Spring 2003.Guest Curator, “Italian Renaissance Portraits,” Lowenfeld Hall, January-

March 2003. Department Representative, Admitted Students Day, April 2003.Panel Moderator, Bing Crosby Conference, November 2002.Guest Curator, “Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome, 1943-

1944,” Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall, September-October, 2002.Conference Director, “If This Is A Man: The Life and Legacy of Primo Levi,” October 2002.Symposium Coordinator, “Italy in the 21st Century” with Senator Learco

Saporito, October 2002.Invited Speaker, University Symposium, “Sacco & Vanzetti,” October 2002. Member, European Studies Coordinating Committee, 2002-2003.Member, Faculty Personnel Board, Fall 2001, Fall 2002-Spring 2003.Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa, 2000.Conference Co-Director, “The Thatcher Years: The Rebirth of Liberty?” Hofstra, March 2000.Conference Director, “The Most Ancient of Minorities: The History and

Culture of Italian Jews” Hofstra University, April 1999. Conference Committee; Chair of Panel; Editor of Conference Proceedings,

“Frank Sinatra” November 1998.

Symposium Coordinator, “Giuseppe Garibaldi” Hofstra University, October 1998.Invited Speaker, “Marxism as a Secular Religion: The Passing of an

Illusion?” Hofstra University Philosophy Club, March 1998Lecture Series Co-Director, “Issues in Judaism,” Fall 1997, Spring 1999.Exhibition Co-coordinator, “Nino Favara. The Essence of Sicily: A People and Their

Spirit,” Hofstra Hall, September 1997.

Senator-at-Large, Graduate Academic Affairs, 1995-1997.Member, HCLAS Curriculum Proposals Committee, 1996-1997; 1998-2001.Participant, Center for Teaching Excellence Mentor Program 1994, 1996, 1998, 2004.Co-Advisor, Amnesty International at Hofstra University, 1995.Volunteer, College for A Day, 1996, 1997.Guest Speaker, Symposium on The Workroom; Drama Department, March 22, 1995.

PUBLIC SERVICE

Invited Speaker, “A History of the Mafia,” Hewlett Public Library, June 2016.Invited Speaker, “A History of the Mafia,” Peninsula Public Library, May 2016.Invited Speaker, “Some Aspects of Twentieth Century Italian History,” Garden City High

School Italian Honors class, April 2016.Invited Speaker, “Italy and World War II,” CIIAC (Center for Italian & Italian American Culture), Cedar Grove, NJ, April 2015.Invited Speaker, “2000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Meadowbrook Women’s Initiative, April 2016. Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” Molloy College, April 2016.Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” Temple Am Echad, Lynbrook, NY, March

2016.Invited Speaker, “Stereotypes in Italian American Culture,” Tiro a Segno, NYC, January 7,

2016.Invited Speaker, “The Holocaust and the Vatican,” National Council of Jewish Women,

December 8, 2015.Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” Italian Cultural Society of

Farmingdale, November 24, 2015. Invited Speaker, “The Holocaust in Italy,” Italian Genealogical Group, May 9, 2015.Invited Speaker, “The Holocaust in Italy,” East Meadows Community, May 7, 2015.Invited Speaker, “The Holocaust in Italy,” Italian Cultural Group, Farmingdale, NY, April 28,

2015.Invited Speaker, “Italian Jews, Fascism and Anti-Fascism,” Peninsula Public Library, April 27,

2015.

Awards Presentation, Annual Gala, Association of Italian American Educators, Westbury, April

19, 2015.Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi and the Holocaust in Italy,” Hewlett Public Library, April 16,

2015.Invited Speaker, “Fascism and Antifascism in the Italian American Community,” Long Island

Regional Chapter, IASA, Westbury, NY, March 27, 2015.Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi,” Temple Am Echad, Lynbrook, NY, February 10, 2015.Invited Speaker, “Italian American History,” Molloy College Institute for Lifelong Learning,

Hempstead, NY, February 10, 2015.Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi,” at Peninsula Public Library, September 11, 2014.Invited Speaker, staged reading of Amelia Rosselli’s Anima, Airmid Theater Company,

Babylon, NY, June 9, 2014.Invited Speaker, “500 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Sachem Public Library, May 2014. Invited Moderator, Temple Beth-El, Bellmore, NY, Israel Affairs Committee, “Creation of A

State” documentary, March 2014.Invited Speaker, “2000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Temple Emanuel, Great Neck, NY,

February 2014. Invited Speaker, “2000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” The Seasons at East Meadow,

January 2014.Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” Suffolk Y JCC, December 2013.Invited Speaker, Poets’ and Writers’ Piazza at Hofstra’s Italian Festival, September 2013.Invited Speaker, Charity Reading for IASA at Canio’s Bookstore, Sag Harbor, NY, August 2013.Invited Speaker, “On Global Citizenship,” Left Forum, Pace University, June 2013.Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi and the Holocaust in Italy,” Suffolk Y JCC, February 2013.Invited Speaker, “500 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Peninsula Public Library, February 2013.Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism,” for the Poets & Writers Piazza,

Italian Festival at Hofstra University, September 2012. Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi and the Holocaust in Italy,” Long Island Jewish Genealogical

Society, Mid-Island Y, February 26, 2012. Invited Speaker, “Rabbi Barbara Aiello: Italy’s First Female Rabbi,” for the National

Council of Jewish Women, Lawrence Country Club, Lawrence, NY, January 4, 2012.

Invited Speaker, 3 Lectures on Modern Italy, Hewlett Senior Center, Fall 2011.Invited Speaker, Book Presentation, Answering Auschwitz at the Italian Cultural Institute,

New York City, November 21, 2011. Invited Speaker, “Italian Jews and the Holocaust,” Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance

Day, Temple Beth-El, Bellmore, NY, May 1, 2011.Invited Speaker “Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” Long Island Regional

Chapter of American Italian Historical Association, Westbury, March 19, 2011.Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” Mid-Island Y, November

17, 2010.Invited Speaker, “2,000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Hutton House Lectures, C.W.

Post, November 10, 2010. Invited Speaker, “Ignazio Silone” at the Westchester Italian Club, November 3, 2010.Invited Speaker, Problems & Promises of Italian and Italian American History,”

Hewlett High School, Fall 2010-Spring 2011.Invited Speaker, “The Jews of Italy,” Sid Jacobsen Jewish Center, Roslyn, October 25, 2010.Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” National Council of Jewish

Women, Lawrence Country Club, September 13, 2010. Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” Port Washington Public

Library, September 12, 2010. Invited Speaker, “2,000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Meadowbrook Women’s Initiative,

August 25, 2010.Invited Speaker, “The Jews of Italy,” Oceanside JCC, June 16, 2010.Invited Speaker, Italian Jews and World War II,” Temple Avodah, Oceanside, NY April 10,

2010.Invited Speaker, “2,000 Years of Italian Jewish History” Temple Am Echad Men’s Club,

March 2, 2010.

Invited Speaker, “Earthquakes and Italy,” Seton Hall University, November 23, 2009. Invited Speaker, “Ignazio Silone,” St. Mark’s Church, Rockville Centre, November 20, 2009. Invited Speaker, Mepham High School History Honor Society Induction Ceremony,

November 17, 2009.Invited Speaker, “Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Italian Jews,” West Hempstead Jewish Center,

November 15, 2009.Invited Speaker, “Ignazio Silone,” East Rockaway Jewish Center, November 10, 2009. Invited Speaker, “2,000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Village Temple, November 6, 2009.Invited Speaker, “Ignazio Silone,” Sid Jacobsen Jewish Center, November 3, 2009. Invited Speaker, “2,000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Syosset Jewish Center, November 2,

2009. Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” West Hempstead Jewish Center,

October 18, 2009.Invited Speaker, “2,000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” 5 Towns Senior Center, October

15/October 29, 2009. Book signing & Lecture, “Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone,” Huntington Book Revue,

October 14, 2009. Public Lecture, “Ignazio Silone,” Casa Italiana, NYU, October 1, 2009.Invited Speaker, “Ignazio Silone,” Mid-Island Y, Plainview, September 30, 2009.Public Lecture, “Power and Politics in Southern Italy,” Stony Brook University, September

24, 2009.Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra: The Man and His Times,” Haddassah Greens, August 26,

2009.Book signing, “Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone,” Rizzoli’s Bookstore, July 14, 2009.Invited Speaker, “Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone,” Montauk Public Library, June 2009.Invited Speaker, “Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone,” Canio’s Bookstore, June 2009.Panel Chair, Forum On Italian American Criticism, Stony Brook University, October,

2008.

Invited Speaker, Primo Levi,” National Council of Jewish Women, Lynbrook, April 22, 2009. Invited Speaker, “2000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” and “Fascism, Anti-Fascism and

Italian Jews,” Oceanside Jewish Center, March 27-28, 2009. Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” and “2000 Years of Italian Jewish

History,” East Rockaway Jewish Center, November 2008.Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” Bellmore Presbyterian Church,

September 2008. Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” Sid Jacobson JCC, East Hills, NY,

September 2008. Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” Haddasah Greens, Long Island,

September 2008.Book Presentation, Carlo Levi’s Fear of Freedom at Canio’s Books, Sag Harbor, June 2008.Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” Sterling Glen Retirement Home,

Lynbrook, NY, April 2008.Invited Speaker, “The Vatican and the Holocaust,” Bellmore Jewish Center, March 2008.Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” Bellmore Presbyterian

Church, January 2008. Invited Speaker, Italian Cultural Institute, NYC, Un giorno con Lucia, December 2007.Invited Speaker, Italian American Writers’ Association, Cornelia Street Café, November 2007. Invited Speaker, “Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Italian Jews,” Stony Brook University,

October, 2007.Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” Oceanside JCC, October 2007. Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi Twenty Years After His Death,” Mid-Island Y-JCC, June 2007. Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra and American Culture,” Rockville Centre

Library, May 2007. Invited Speaker, “2000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” The Greens Adult

Community, Melville, April 2007. Invited Speaker, “Carlo Levi’s Anti-Fascism,” Shelter Rock Library, October 2006. Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism,” Oceanside JCC, September 2006.

Invited Speaker, “Remembering Peter Treves,” Jewish Center of the Hamptons, August 2006.Invited Speaker, “Italian Fascism and Anti-Semitism,” Jewish Center of the Hamptons,

June 2006.Book reading and signing, Canio’s Bookshop, Sag Harbor, NY, August 2005.Invited Speaker, “An Overview of Contemporary Italy,” Programma Ponte, Association of

Italian American Educators, Italian Cultural Institute, New York City, June 2005.Invited Speaker, “500 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Suffolk “Y” JCC, May 2005.Invited Speaker, Hewitt Elementary School, Rockville Centre, “What Is a History Professor?”Invited Speaker, “Frank Sinatra,” Riverside Goddard Community Center, NYC.Commentator, Smithtown High School AP History Conference, May 2004.Invited Speaker, “The History of Italian Jews,” Oceanside Jewish

Community Center, September 2004.Invited Speaker, “The Italian American Experience” Merrick Senior Center, May 2004.Book Presentation, Desperate Inscriptions at Canio’s Bookstore, Sag Harbor, NY, May 2004.Invited Speaker, “Pope Pius XII, the Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy,”

Plainview MidIsland Jewish Community Center, March 2004.

Invited Speaker, Photo Exhibition: “Poems Before Death: Graffiti From the Nazi Prison in Rome,” John J. Calandra Italian American Museum, CUNY, February 2004.

Invited Speaker, “The Most Ancient of Minorities: The Jews of Italy,” City Congregation

for Humanistic Judaism, NY, NY, February 2004.Invited Speaker, “Galeazzo Ciano and the End of Fascism,” Italian Heritage

Association,October 2003.

Invited Speaker, “Pope Pius XII, The Vatican and the Holocaust,” Suffolk “Y” Jewish

Center, October, 2003.Invited Speaker, Massapequa Park Senior Center, “Stereotypes of Italian

Americans,” September 2003.Public Workshop, “Jewish Resistance and Jews in National Resistance

Movement During World War II,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Invited Speaker, “The Legacy of Primo Levi,” Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, July 2003.Book Presentation, The Most Ancient of Minorities, Casa Italiana, NYU, April 2003.

Invited Speaker, “A Tribute to Peter Treves,” Casa Italiana, NYU, April 2003.

Invited Speaker, “Fascism’s Tangled Web: The Strange Case of Ignazio Silone” Trinity College, 3 March 2003.

Invited Speaker, “La Giornata della Memoria” (Holocaust Memorial Day in Italy), Casa

Italiana at New York University, 27 January 2003.Book Presentation, Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti From the Nazi Prison in Rome at the

Italian Cultural Institute, New York, 23 January 2003.Invited Speaker, “Italy, the Vatican and the Holocaust,” Wagner College, November 2002.Invited Speaker, “The First Ghetto: Italian Jews,” Suffolk Jewish “Y”, November 2002.Invited Speaker, “The Life & Times of Primo Levi,” WIZO, New York City,

September 2002.Invited Speaker, “2000 Years of Italian Jewish History,” Hewlett-Woodmere

Public Library, April 2002.Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi’s Holocaust Memoirs,” Reconstructionist

Temple, Hewlett, NY, December 2001.Invited Speaker, “Primo Levi’s Legacy,” Suffolk Community “Y”, September 2001.Invited Speaker, book presentation of Under His Very Windows: The

Vatican and the Holocaust by Susan Zuccotti, 17 May 2001, Italian Cultural Institute, New York.

Invited Speaker, “Malena”, dir. Giuseppe Tornatore, Great Neck Arts Center, March 2001.

Invited Speaker, Canio’s Bookstore, Sag Harbor, May 2000.Invited Speaker, Italian American Writers’ Association, Casa Italiana, NYU, February 2000.Invited Speaker, Suffolk Y CC, “Italian Jewish Anti-Fascism,” February 2000.Invited Speaker, Suffolk Y Jewish CC, “Two Thousand Years of Italian Jewish History,” May

1999. Invited Speaker, Life Is Beautiful, dir. Roberto Begnini, October 1998. Invited Speaker, “Is Human Worth Possible After the Holocaust?” Danforth

Associates of New York, Pawling, NY, September 1998.Invited Speaker, US premier of La Tregua, dir. Francesco Rosi, Great Neck,

April 1998.Invited Discussant, “Alberto Moravia,” Italian Cultural Society, Glen Cove, September 1997.Judge, National History Day, Hofstra University, 1995, 1996.

PUBLIC SERVICE (MEDIA)

“Sinatra and the Jackpack,” Circle Films, ReelzTV, December 2015.

“Sinatra Centenary Celebration at Hofstra University” ICN Radio, November 23, 2015.Voice of America Interview, “How World War I Changed the Map of Europe,”www.voanews.com/content/how-wwi-changed-the-map-of-europe/1970075.html

August 1, 2014.Radio Interview, “Obama’s State of the Union Address,” RAI Radio 2 (Italy), January 28,

2014.Radio Interview, “Possible Government Shutdown,” RAI Radio 2 (Italy), September 30,

2013.Web Interview, “Not All Popes Resign For the Same Reason,” February 12, 2013,

www.i-italy.org/35400/food-thought-not-all-popes-resign-same-reasonsDocumentary Interview, “Let Fury Have the Hour,” dir. Antonino D’Ambrosio, 2012.Radio Interview, “Dibattito Presidenziale” on RAI Radio 2 (Italy), October 16, 2012.Radio Interview with Felipe Luciano, WBAI, August 10, 2012.Newspaper Interview, “Naples Conference,” Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno, November 26, 2011.Article, Filomena Troiano, “Arte, musica, e poesia: delirio Napoli a New York,” in Il

Denaro di Napoli, November 18, 2011.Article, “www.i-italy.org, “Delirious Naples: Hofstra University Spotlights Naples,”

by Daniele DeMarco, November 21, 2011.Interview, “Delirious Naples in New York: A Conversation with Stan Pugliese,” by

Ottorino Cappelli, www.i-italy.org, November 14, 2011.Newspaper Interview, “Napoli, Happily,” by Steven Parks, Newsday, November 14, 2011.Radio Interview, “Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture,” “Italia Mia” 1370 WALK

AM, March 20, 2011. Review of Dangerous Pedagogy Conference, Liliana Rosano, Altreitalie, luglio-dicembre, 2010; pp.

120-22. Online Interview, “Wrestling With Angels” http://theactivist.org/blog/ July 23, 2010.Radio Interview, “Ignazio Silone”, WHPC, Nassau Community College, October 8, 2009.Electronic Newspaper Interview, “Ignazio Silone,” for i-italy.org, September 29, 2009.

Radio Lecture, “Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone,” WPKN, Montauk, NY/Bridgeport, CT; www.wpkn.org, September 23, 2009.

Radio Interview, “A Life of Ignazio Silone,” WUSB, Stony Brook Radio, August 31, 2009. Television Interview, “Ignazio Silone” with Fred Gardaphé, Dolce Channel, July 8, 2009.Radio Interview, “Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone,” WLIU, June 15, 2009.Television interview, Vito DeSimone on “Italian American Writers,” Channel 25, June 2009. Interview, “Silone e la sofferenza,” in America Oggi/Oggi 7, April 12, 2009, p. 5. Television and Radio interview, BBC, “Italian Americans and Boxing,” (with Michael

D’Innocenzo”), November 2008. Radio interview, Carlo Levi’s Fear of Freedom, WUSB, Stony Brook, September 22, 2008.Magazine interview, “Our Way: Frank Sinatra,” in Ambassador, vol. 20, n. 1, 2008.Radio Interview, Carlo Levi’s Fear of Freedom, WPKN, Montauk, Long Island, June 2008.Online Interview, “Stanislao Pugliese’s edition of Fear of Freedom,” by Daria Masullo,

www.i-italy.org, May 1, 2008. Interview, “Primo Levi’s Tranquil Star,” National Public Radio, April 15, 2007.Interview, “Rat Pack Encore?” in The Boston Globe, May 18, 2006.Interview, “Turin’s Witness: Primo Levi,” in The Jewish Week, February 24, 2006. Television interview, “In Conversation with Rabbi Potasniak”, Channel 25

Telecare, May 2005. Radio interview, “The Italian Odyssey,” WLIE 520 AM, November 14, 2004.Radio interview, “Contemporary Italy,” with Linda Jameson, WORT-FM,

Madison, Wisconsin, February 2004.Television interview, “Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti From the Nazi Prison

in Rome,” with Vito De Simone on Public Access Television (Channel 20), Spring 2003.

Interview, “Italian and Jewish,” Newsday, April 29, 2003, pp. B3, B20.Radio interview, “Primo Levi,” WRHU, Hofstra University, October 18,

2002.Radio interview, “Italian American Organized Crime,” KPCC, Pasadena, September 13, 2002.Interview, “Carlo Rosselli,” Democratic Left, Spring/Summer 2000.Interview, “Pensiero e azione,” America Oggi, June 11, 2000, p. 15B Television interview, RAI International (Italian), “Carlo Rosselli,” February 6, 2000

Radio interview, WUSB, “Carlo Rosselli and Italian Anti-Fascism,” January 31, 2000Radio interview, WGBB, “The Moral Problem of Kosovo,” May 10, 1999.Radio interview, “The Italian Cinema,” WHPC Radio, 25 March 1999. Radio interview, “Italy, Pius XII and the Holocaust,” SUNY Radio, 11 November 1998.Television commentary, Columbus Day Parade, NY 1 NEWS, October 1998.Television interview, WLIW, “Italian-Americans,” Summer 1998.Television commentary, Columbus Day Parade, NY 1 NEWS, October 1997.Television interview, ITALICS: The Italian American Magazine, CUNY TV, May 1995.

PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONSAmerican Historical Association, Italian American Studies Association, Association of Italian American Educators, American Association of Teachers of Italian, PEN American Center, Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society, Circolo di Cultura Politica “Fratelli Rosselli”, SISSCO (Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea), Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, Society for Italian Historical Studies, New York State Association of European Historians, National Book Critics Circle, Hofstra Chapter of AAUP, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, Order Sons of Italy in America, National Italian American Organization, Comitato Scientifico Archivio Storico del Sannio, Benevento, Italy.

PREVIOUS TEACHINGFall 2005: Adjunct Professor of History, New York UniversitySpring 1993: Adjunct Lecturer in History, John Jay College, CUNYSpring 1992: Adjunct Lecturer in History, Mannes College of MusicFall 1991: Adjunct Lecturer in History, New York UniversitySpring 1991: Adjunct Lecturer in History, Hunter College, CUNYSpring 1991: Adjunct Lecturer in History, Marymount Manhattan College