Congratulations to Dr. Brian J Griffith for winning the 2021 SIHS Article Prize for Modern Italian History for his article “Bacchus among the Blackshirts: Wine Making, Consumerism and Identity in Fascist Italy, 1919-1937,” published in Contemporary European History in November 2020. The following is the award committee’s official citation for Dr. Griffith’s award, along with…
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Congratulations to Glauco Schettini for winning the honorable mention for the 2021 SIHS Article Prize for Modern Italian History for his article “Confessional Modernity: Nicola Spedalieri, the Catholic Church and the French Revolution, c. 1775–1800,” published in Modern Intellectual History in September 2020. The following is the award committee’s official citation for Schettini’s award, along…
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Congratulations to Dr. Michael Martoccio for winning the 2021 SIHS Article Prize for Medieval and Early Modern Italian History for his article “The Art of Mercato: Buying City-States in Renaissance Tuscany,” published in Past & Present in August 2021. The following is the award committee’s official citation for Dr. Martoccio’s award, along with an interview…
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The SIHS’s Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the 2019 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History has been awarded to Konstantina Zanou’s Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). With an exemplary research effort consisting of archival documents and primary-source texts in Italian, French,…
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Republished from UC Santa Barbara’s The Current: Imagine exploring the monuments of ancient Rome as a graduate student, excavating at an archaeological site and being tasked with determining if some purportedly ancient artifacts are genuine. If they are, you need to determine whether they should remain at the prestigious Southern California museum where they’re housed…
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