EMPLOYMENT

2018-present    Associate Professor of History, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

2011-2018        Assistant Professor of History, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA   

ACADEMIC RECORD       

2006-2011        Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

2003-2005        M.A., History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

1997-2001        B.A., American Studies and Journalism, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

IN-RESIDENCE FELLOWSHIPS

2020-2021        Verville Fellowship, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.

2015-2016        Postdoctoral Fellow, Culinaria Research Centre, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada      

EDITORIAL WORK

2019-present     Executive Co-editor, Global Food History (Taylor & Francis)

2020-present     Executive Co-editor, Brill Book Series, Studies in Global Migration History

2020-present     Editorial Board member, Diasporic Italy: The Journal of the Italian American Studies Association

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018).

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures, co-editor, with Irina D. Mihalache (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

“Culinary Commodities: Global Foods, People, and Cuisines,” in The Oxford Handbook of Global Commodities, edited by Jean Stubbs, William Gervase, Jonathan Curry-Machado, and Jelmer Vos (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2023).

“The Fastest Fast Food in the World,” in Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines, edited by Simone Cinotto and Dan Bender (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming, 2023).

“Brotherly Love: The Forging of an Italian-Argentine Brotherhood in Argentina, 1880-1920,” in Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration edited by Marcelo Borges, Sonia Cancian, and Linda Reeder (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, January 2021).

“Global Women: Migrants and Refugees, 1850s-2000,” A Companion to American Women’s history, 2nd Edition, edited by Nancy A. Hewitt and Anne M. Valk (Malden, Mass: Wiley Blackwell, 2020), 319-336.

“Migrant Marketplaces: Globalizing Histories of Migrant Foodways,” Global Food History 4, 1 (2018): 3-21. Special Issue: Migrant Marketplaces, edited by Elizabeth Zanoni.

“‘A Wife in Waiting’: Women and the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act in Il Progresso Italo-Americano Advice Columns,” in New Italian Migrants to the United States, Vol.1: Politics and History since 1945, edited by Laura Ruberto and Joe Sciorra (Urbana: University of Illinois, 2017), 80-104.

“Food and Immigration,” in The Routledge History of American Foodways, edited by Michael D. Wise and Jennifer Jensen Wallach (New York: Routledge, 2016), 279-292.

“‘In Italy everyone enjoys it.  Why not in America?’”: Italian Americans and Consumption in Transnational Perspective during the early Twentieth Century,” in Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities, edited by Simone Cinotto (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), 71-82. Winner of the 2015 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.

“‘Per Voi, Signore’: Gendered Representations of Fashion, Food, and Fascism in Il Progresso Italo-Americano during the 1930s,” Journal of American Ethnic History 31, no. 3 (Spring 2012): 33-71.

“Transitions in Gender Ratios among International Migrants, 1820-1930,” with Donna Gabaccia, Social Science History 36, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 197-221.

Forums/Bibliographic/Encyclopedic

“Forum: What America Ate, Introduction,” Global Food History 6, no. 3 (2020): 241-243. Part of the Forum: What America Ate, edited by Elizabeth Zanoni, Global Food History 6, no. 3 (2020): 241-261.

“Making Homes through Migration and Food,” RSA Journal (Rivista di Studi Americani) 20 (2019): 134-141. Forum: New Perspectives on the Italian American Diaspora, edited by Matteo Pretelli.

“Thinking Big about Mobile People,” Journal of American Ethnic History 37, no. 1 (Fall 2017): 57-64. Forum on Donna Gabaccia, Transnational Scholar.

“Italian American Collection at the Immigration History Research Center,” with Donna Gabaccia, Italian Americana 31, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 11-16.

“Sports Gear/Apparel” entry in The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, edited by Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 972-974.

“Detroit Jewish Women in Physical Sports During the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century,” with Linda J. Borish, Michigan Jewish History 16 (Fall 2006): 28-40.

Digital Humanities Scholarship/Projects

“Italian Immigrant Pantry,” Museo de la Inmigración, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Benjamin Bryce, University of British Columbia (under construction).

“‘Foreign Foods’: Culinary Exchanges during the Depression,” What America Ate, NEH-funded online archive and digital humanities project, originally posted May 2017, https://whatamericaate.org/single.essay.php?kid=164-593-13

Book/Documentary Reviews

Peter Naccarto, Zachary Nowak, and Elgin K. Eckert, eds., Representing Italy Through Food in Italian American Review 10, 1 (Winter 2020): 76-79.

Justin A. Nystrom, Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture in Journal of American Ethnic History 39, 2 (2020): 114-116.

Food on the Go film by Mercedes Cordova in Italian American Review 8, 2 (Summer 2018): 229-232.

Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber, eds., Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America’s Immigration Story in International Migration Review 49, n. 3 (2015): 31-32.

Simone Cinotto, Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies 18, no. 5 (Dec. 2013): 683-685.

Marcella Bencivenni, Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940 in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 17, no. 5 (Dec. 2012): 654-656.

Mark Choate, Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31, no. 1 (2010): 101-102.

ACADEMIC PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND TALKS SINCE 2013

“Eating Global in America: In-flight Passenger Magazines and Domestic Food Tourism,” Organization of American Historians, Boston and Virtual, March/April, 2022.

“Keeping Kosher at Thirty Thousand Feet: Religious Meals in Airplane Cuisine, 1950s-1990s,” Social Science History Association, Philadelphia, PA, Nov.2021.

“A History of Pan Am’s Culinary Infrastructures,” National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Feb. 22, 2021.

“Archival Stories of Food, Airplanes, and Museums,” with Irina D. Mihalache, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (virtual presentation), Jan. 2021.

“Culinary Contraband: Policing Foreign Foods at U.S. Airports,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL. Nov. 2019.

“Migrant Marketplaces: Italian Foodways in the U.S. and Argentina, 1880-1940,” Cambridge Italian Research Network Annual Symposium, University of Cambridge, UK, May 2019.

“The Case of the Stolen Filet Mignon: Labor in Pan American Airways’ Fight Kitchens,” Association for the Study of Food and Society, Madison, WI, June 2018.

“Flight Fuel: Pan Am and the Creation of In-Flight Cuisines,” Culinary Historians of New York, New York, NY, Oct. 2018.

“Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America,” book talk, Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY, New York, NY, Oct. 2018.

“The Travels and Reinvention of Taste: Italian and Chinese Food and Migration,” co-keynote address with Yong Chen (University of California at Irvine), Italy and East Asia: Exchanges and Parallels, Center for Italian Studies and the Confucius Institute, Stony Brook University, NY, Oct. 2018.

“Keeping the Minnesota School Transnational and Immigrant Centered in an Age of Restriction,” Italian American Studies Symposium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 2018.

“Migrant Marketplaces: Italian Migration and Food Trade,” 1890s-1940,” Food and Migration: Mobile People’s Impact on Food Systems and Taste, Terra Madre Salone de Gusto, Turin, Italy, Sept. 2016.

“Panettone/Pan Dulce: Italianità, Latinità, and the Making of Identities in Buenos Aires’ Migrant Marketplaces in the Early 20th Century,” Association for the Study of Food and Society, Toronto, Canada, June 2016.

“Migrant Marketplaces: Consuming Italian-American Identities,” invited talk, Transforming Methodologies and Disciplinary Frameworks. A Workshop on Mobility and Human Subjectivities, University of Warwick in Venice, Italy, Sept. 2015.

“Edible Ethnicities in Transition,” Association for the Study of Food and Society, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2015.

“Elia Kazan’s America America (1963) and Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy during the Cold War,” Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association, New Orleans, LO, April 2015.

“‘Lana, Lana, Lana!’: The Pro-Wool Campaign and the Mobilization of Italian Women in Argentina during World War I,” Lontane da Casa: Donne Italiane e Diaspora Globale nel XX Secolo (Far from Home: Italian Women and the Global Diaspora in the 20th Century),” University of Padua, Italy, Dec. 2013.

“From Diplomacy to Domesticity: The Gendering of Consumption and Italian National Identity among Migrants in the U.S. and Argentina, 1880 to 1940,” invited talk, The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Canada in the Americas Initiative, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 30, 2013.

TEACHING

Old Dominion University (2011 to present)

Graduate:

Edible History: Food and Drink in U.S. and Global History

Melting Pot? Readings in U.S. Immigration History

Cultures of U.S. Imperialism

Undergraduate:

Practicum/Internship

Senior Seminar: Food in World History

Senior Seminar: Migration and Mobility in U.S. History

Robber Barons, Reformers, and Radicals: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era in Global Perspective

A Nation of Immigrants?: U.S. Migration in Historical Perspective

Historical Methods

Interpreting the American Past (in person and online)

Università di Scienze Gastronomiche (University of Gastronomic Sciences) Pollenzo, Italy (Summer 2020)

Mobility and Logistics in the Global Food Commodity Market, part of the Master of Gastronomy: World Food Cultures and Mobility program

University of Minnesota (2010-2011)

Undergraduate:

Twentieth Century U.S. History to 1945

Western Michigan University (2003-2005)

Undergraduate:

Women in U.S. History

Introduction to Italian