October 29, 2013 John Alcorn Principal Lecturer in Italian Studies Department of Language and Culture Studies Trinity College Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 297-2182 [email protected] Employment Faculty appointments 2007-present Summer 2010 2003-2007 2002–03 2000–02 2000

Principal Lecturer in Italian Studies Visiting Professor, Università degli Studi di Messina (Italy) Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, Trinity College Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies, Trinity College Lecturer in Italian Studies, Trinity College Visiting Professor (Professore associato a contratto), Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Palermo, Italy 1992–2000 Visiting Lecturer, Trinity College 1991-92 Visiting Professor (Professore associato a contratto), Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Palermo, Italy Summer 1991 Visiting Lecturer, Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Wesleyan University 1990-91 Visiting Lecturer in History, Trinity College 1984-90 Preceptor in Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University Academic administration 2000–2007

1994–2000

Associate Director of Italian Programs, Trinity College (Rome Campus, Elderhostel/Italy, & Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture) Assistant to the Director of Italian Programs, Trinity College

Education 1999

1984

Ph. D., Department of History, Columbia University Dissertation: Social Strife in Sicily 1892-94: The Rise and Fall of Peasant Leagues on the Latifondo before the Great Emigration Defence Committee: Victoria DeGrazia (chair), Edward Malefakis (sponsor), Jon Elster, Duncan Foley, and J. W. Smit. M. Phil., Department of History, Columbia University

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1982

1980 1975

M. A., Department of History, Columbia University Thesis: Leopardi, Manzoni, and the Gramscian Legacy Advisor: Robert O. Paxton B. A., French Language & Literature, Columbia College Maturità, with perfect score (60/60), IVº Liceo Scientifico, Florence, Italy

Fellowships 2007-2009 2003 1998-2002 1991-92 1990 1990-91 1987-88

1987 1982-84

Fellow, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture Fellow, Trinity College Center for Collaborative Teaching & Research Foreign Correspondent, IMES project on the History of Community in Corleone, Sicily. Prof. Paolo Viola, U. of Palermo, coordinator. Doctoral Fellow, Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli Visiting Research Fellow, Università di Siena, Italy Whiting Fellow, Columbia University (Declined) International Doctoral Research Fellow, Social Science Research Council Fulbright/Hays Grantee, Board of Foreign Scholarships/I. I. E. Columbia University Traveling Fellow Chamberlain Fellow, Columbia University (“In recognition of successful teaching by a junior scholar”) President’s Fellow, Columbia University

Grants 2009

NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Medieval Academy of America (Prato, Italy) Dante: Dr Christopher Kleinhenz, director 1994 NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Yale University Italian Studies: Dr Giuseppe Mazzotta, director • Trinity College ITEC grant (to develop a hybrid course for J-Term) • Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture travel grant • Trinity College Course Development Grant for Human Rights Studies • Hewlett Foundation Grant for “The Individual & Society” Reading Group • Trinity College Course Development Grant for Community Learning

Awards 2009 2007

I Migliori—The Best in Mind and Deeds (Pirandello Lyceum, Boston, MA) Italian American of Year (Italian American Caucus, Connecticut State Legislature)

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Manuscripts in progress • Social Strife in Sicily before the Great Emigration (1892-94) (book ms) • Justice in Hell: A Fresh Look at Dante's Inferno (book ms) • Giacomo Leopardi’s Art and Science of Psychology (book ms) • The Godfather and Game Theory: The Art of Hard Choices by Mafiosi (book ms) • “The Universe in 15 Lines: The Psychology of Aesthetic Emotions in Giacomo Leopardi’s L’Infinito,” for La Rivista Internazionale di Studi Leopardiani, Emilio Speciale editor (article ms for the Annual volume of the Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani, 2014) • “The Young Italian American Association: A Safety Net in An Immigrant Community in Connecticut,” a chapter ms for Associazionismo nelle comunità italiane nel Connecticut, Marcello Saija editor (forthcoming 2014) • “Art and Insight in Emozioni by Mogol and Battisti” (article ms) • “The ‘Bribe City’ Investigations in Italy (1992-94)” (article ms) • “The Language of Social Norms against Nation-Building” (article ms) • Editor, Forever Young: Lectures in Art Conservation and Appreciation by Walter Persegati and by Francesca Persegati (Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture) • Editor, Eye on the Ball: A Symposium in Honor of Robert A. Pedemonti (TC ’60) (Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture) • Editor, A Wealth of Nations: Markets and Cultures (Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture) • Editor, Judges Making History: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Post-Cold-War Italy (Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture)

Publications Articles in refereed scholarly journals “Suffering in Hell: The Psychology of Emotions in Dante’s Inferno,” Pedagogy 13:1 (Duke U. Press, Fall 2012) 77-85. “Forze e meccanismi in atto nella Grande Emigrazione verso l’America,” [“Forces and Mechanisms in the Great Migration to America”], Neos: Rivista di storia dell’emigrazione siciliana 2:1 (December 2008) 47-68. “Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust in Italy: An Introduction,” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 7:3 (June 2002) 215-218. Editor, “Symposium on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust in Italy” (articles by Susan Zuccotti, Ronald J. Rychlak, Alexander De Grand, and Frank J. Coppa), Journal of Modern Italian Studies 7:3 (June 2002) 215-268. “La ginestra: Un esempio di arte sociale,” La Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana 103:1 (January-June 1999) 223-251. Dario Del Puppo co-author.

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“Giacomo Leopardi’s Art and Science of Emotion in Memory and Anticipation,” MLN 111:1 (January 1996) 89-122. “Giacomo Leopardi’s Historical Poetics in the Canzone ‘Ad Angelo Mai’,” Italica 72:1 (Spring 1995). Dario Del Puppo co-author. “Giacomo Leopardi’s ‘La ginestra’ as Social Art,” Modern Language Review 89:4 (October 1994) 865-88. Dario Del Puppo co-author. Note: The journal has published an essay replying to the article listed above: Pamela Williams, “Leopardi’s Philosophy of consolation in La ginestra.” Modern Language Review 93:4 (October 1998) 985-96. “Argument & Allocation: The Contention of Ajax & Ulysses for Achilles’ Armor,” Science & Society 58:2 (Summer 1994) 163-74. Note: The journal has published a comment on the article listed above: Yanis Varoufakis, “Coercion and Allocation: A Comment on John Alcorn’s ‘Argument and Allocation’.” Science & Society 59:4 (Winter 1995-96) 548-55. “I Fasci siciliani ed il primo grande sciopero contadino dell’Italia liberale (1893),” [“The Sicilian Leagues and Liberal Italy’s First Great Peasant Strike (1893)”], Nuove Prospettive Meridionali, 3:5-7 (1993) 195-270. Articles in books “L’emigrazione siciliana e le dinamiche della globalizzazione” [Sicilian Emigration and the Dynamics of Globalization], in Memorie del futuro: Il rilancio del ruolo dell’associazionismo nelle politiche migratorie (A. N. F. E.: Palermo, in press). “Introduction.” in A Passion for History (Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, 2008), pp. i–iii. “Sicilian Fasci.” in Europe 1798-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, 5 vols., IV, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (Charles Scribner’s, 2006). “Revolutionary Mafiosi: Voice and Exit in the 1890s,” in L’associazionismo a Corleone: Un’inchiesta storica e sociologica, edited by Paolo Viola and Titti Morello (Istituto Gramsci Siciliano, Palermo, 2004) [Digital book on CD-ROM]. “Sophisticated Liberals,” in Italian Socialism: Between Politics and History, edited by Spencer Di Scala (U. of Massachusetts Press, 1996), pp. 38-44.

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“The Commissione per i contratti agrari of 1894: A Case Study in Ideology and Social Science,” in Quaderni a cura del Servizio Studi Legislativi dell’Assmblea Regionale Siciliana, edited by Nicola De Domenico, Alessandro Garilli, and Pietro Nastasi (Palermo: La Regione Sicilia, 1994) 2 vols, I, pp. 97-184. Books edited A Passion for History (Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, 2008) In Celebration of Language (Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, 2004). Dario Del Puppo, co-editor. Reviews “Democracy and Organized Crime.” Review of Felia Allum and Renate Siebert, eds., Organized Crime and the Challenge to Democracy (Routledge/ECPR Sudies in European Political Science: London and New York, 2003), in Global Crime 1:1 (Frank Cass, 2005). Critical essay for exhibition catalogue to Peter Waite, Social Studies. Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, April 22-May 31, 1998. Book reviews in Choice Review of Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (Pantheon Press, 1995). Review of Karen Pinkus, Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism (U. of Minnesota Press, 1995). Review of Jacob Owensby, Dilthey and the Narrative of History (Cornell U. Press, 1994). Review of F. R. Ankersmit, History and Tropology (U. of California Press, 1994). Review of Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (W.W. Norton, 1994). Review of Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection (Harvard U. Press, 1993). Review of David I. Kertzer, Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control (Beacon Press, 1993). Review of Ernst Breisach, American Progressive History (U. of Chicago Press, 1993)

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Other publications Rembrandt's Beret (New York: William Morrow, 1991)

Conference papers and public lectures “A Fateful Choice: Gertrude in I promessi sposi.” A Common Hour lecture in the LACS Deparment Faculty Research series at Trinity College (October 29, 2013) “Leopardi on the Meaning of It All: Canto notturno.” A Common Hour lecture at Trinity College (September 24, 2013) (Part of the international conference, “Leopardi today.” “An Invitation to Leopardi: L’Infinito.” A public lecture for the Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture at Trinity College (September 16, 2013) “Should we legalize drugs?” Debate at The Mill with Forrest Robinette ’16. Trinity College (January 29, 2013) “Fateful Choices: Lodovico & Gertrude in I promessi sposi.” A paper for the international conference, “The Monk, The Priest, the Nun,” Center for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (March 22-23, 2013) “The Psychology of Protest in I Cento passi and in the Grassroots Anti-mafia Movement in Sicily.” Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI). University of London, United Kingdom (November 24, 2012) “The Universe in 15 Lines: The Psychology of Aesthetic Emotions in Giacomo Leopardi’s L’Infinito,” a public lecture at the Giacomo Leopardi Centre, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (November 21, 2012) “The Young Italian American Association: A Safety Net in An Immigrant Community in Connecticut,” a public lecture at the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT (October 22, 2012) “Poetry & Psychology in Giacomo Leopardi,” a public lecture at the Italian Cultural Association, BACIO, Bridgeport, CT (September 24, 2012) “Dante & Politics,” a public lecture at the Dante Alighieri Society, Cambridge, MA (May 11, 2012). “Italy & the Euro Crisis,” a public lecture for the Cesare Barbieri Endowment at Trinity College, CT (April 9, 2012).

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“The Godfather & Game Theory: The Art of Hard Choices by Mafiosi,” a public lecture at the Italian Cultural Society, Naples, Florida (March 8, 2012). “Italy & the Euro Crisis,” a public lecture at the Italian Cultural Association, BACIO, Bridgeport, CT (February 13, 2012). “The Language of Social Norms against Nation-Building: Sicilian Proverbs about Justice and Revenge,” A paper for the international conference, Italian Unification: Language, Literature, Education, U. of Toronto, October 14-15, 2011. “Vendetta, Disorder, and Order in The Godfather,” Colloquium on Violence and Religion (René Girard Society), Aeolian Islands, Italy, June 15-18, 2011. “What Makes Peppino Tick?” International conference, Contemporary Representations of Organized Crime in Italy and Beyond, University of Canterbury, June 9-10, 2011. “The ‘Bribe City’ Investigations in Italy, 1992-1994.” Symposium, Judges Making History, Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, Trinity College, April 11, 2011. “The Emergence of Grass-Roots Anti-Mafia in Sicily.” BACIO Italian Heritage Society, Bridgeport, CT, February 15, 2011. “The Search for Meaning in Giacomo Leopardi’s Canto notturno.” Circolo Italiano, Boston, MA, October 13, 2011. “The World in Fifteen Lines: Giacomo Leopardi’s L’Infinito.” Bel Canto Institute, Florence, Italy, July 20, 2010. “Dante’s Vision of Language & Society.” Dante Alighieri Society, Cambridge, MA, June 6, 2010. “The Search for Meaning without God in Giacomo Leopardi’s Canto notturno.” 79th Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May 28, 2010. “Cinematic Representation of Giuseppe Impastato’s Inner Motives in Breaking Omertà.” 79th Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May 28, 2010. “Italy & the Euro Crisis.” Semi-Annual Meeting of the National Italian American Medical Society, Avon, CT, May 22, 2010. “Mafia in America 1900-1950.” Lectio Magistralis, Department of International & Anglo-American Studies, University of Messina, Sicily, Italy, May 19, 2010. “Dante’s Inferno: Justice in Hell.” UNICO, Farmington, CT, April 28, 2010.

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“Giacomo Leopardi’s Art & Science of Unspoken, Unrequited Love: Il primo amore & Diario del primo amore.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Italian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 23, 2010. “Art & Insight in I cento passi.” New Italian Film Conference, Indiana University, April 9, 2010. “Evolutionary Explanations of Religion.” ISSSC, January 28, 2010. “The Breakdowns of Omertà in Palermo and in New York City.” AISLLI Conference, Center for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, December 5, 2009. “The Godfather & Game Theory: The Art of Hard Choices by Mafiosi,” Connecticut Association of Federal Prosecutors. Pine Orchards Country Club, Branford, CT, November 13, 2009. “The Godfather & Game Theory: The Art of Hard Choices by Mafiosi.” Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, October 26, 2009. “The Great Migration from Italy to America.” Pirandello Society, Cambridge, MA, October 18, 2009. “Giacomo Leopardi’s Storytelling Approach to Psychology: Aesthetic Emotions in L’Infinito.” Romance Studies Colloquium, Montclair State University, October 1, 2009. “Evolution in Nature & Society.” ISSSC, September 24, 2009. “Italy’s Identity Crisis.” Trinity College Alumni Reunion, June 4, 2009. “Giacomo Leopardi’s Poetry & Psychology of the Infinite.” Annual meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies, St. John’s University, New York City, May 910, 2009. “Cosa Nostra and the American Dream.” UNICO, Farmington, CT chapter, April 22, 2009. “Justice in Hell: Principles, Patterns, and Metaphors of Retribution in Dante’s Inferno.” Faculty Research Committee lecture series, Trinity College, December 11, 2008. “L’emigrazione siciliana e le dinamiche della globalizzazione” [“Sicilian Emigration & the Dynamics of Globalization”]. International conference, Memorie del futuro [Memories of the Future], organized by the University of Palermo, A.N.F.E. [National Association of Emigrants’ Federations], and the Regional Government of Sicily, Palermo, Italy, November 28-29, 2008.

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“Italian Immigrants & the American Dream.” Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, November 17, 2008. “Justice in Hell: Principles, Patterns, and Metaphors of Retribution in Dante’s Inferno.” Dante Working Group seminar, Yale University, November 13, 2008. “A Tale of Two Cartels: Mafia Entrepreneurship in the Pasta Industry in Chicago and in the Cartage Industry in New York City.” Annual national conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Southern Connecticut State University, November 8, 2008. “Justice in Hell: Principles, Patterns, & Metaphors of Retribution in Dante’s Inferno.” International conference, Allegory: Theory and Practice, University of Toronto, October 17-19, 2008. “Dante’s Inferno.” BACIO Italian heritage association, Bridgeport, CT, September 8, 2008. “Culture & the Creation of an Italian Nation-State.” Bel Canto Institute, Florence, Italy, July 9, 2008. “Dante: The First Italian Genius.” Bel Canto Institute, Florence, Italy, July 8, 2008. “The Sicilian Mafia.” A series of five public lectures. Academy for Lifelong Learning, Trinity College, April - May 2002. “Revolutionary Mafiosi.” University of Connecticut at Storrs, April 2002. “Mafia cosche and political coalitions.” International symposium on Cosa Nostra, University of Hartford, February 27, 2002. Note: An article about the above research presentation appeared in The Hartford Advocate: Dan Levine, “A Story You Can’t Refuse: The Roots of the Mafia Go Deep into the Peasant Soil of Sicily. Just Try Rooting It Out,” Hartford Advocate 14 March 2002. “The Genius of Giacomo Leopardi: Poetry and Psychology in His Life and Work.” I talian Heritage Month lecture, Eleonora Duse Theater, Cambridge, MA, October 2001. “New findings about the Fascio dei Lavoratori in Corleone, from documents in the State Archive of Palermo.” Fourth international conference on the history of community in Corleone, University of Palermo, Italy, August 4, 2001. “New findings about the Fascio dei Lavoratori in Corleone, from documents in the Municipal Archive of Corleone.” Third international conference on the history of community in Corleone, University of Palermo, Italy, June 5, 2001.

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“Giacomo Leopardi’s Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi degli’Italiani. International conference on Leopardi and the Italians.” University of Rome La Sapienza, March 19, 2001. “The Great Migration from Italy to America.” Delivered at several institutions: Academy for Lifelong Learning, Trinity College. October 2001. National Italian American Medical Society, March 2001. Smithsonian Institution, April 2000. Pennsylvania State Universtity, February 2000. Middlebury College, January 1999. Vassar College, February 1998. Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, Trinity College, February 1997. “Justice in Hell: A Fresh Look at Dante’s Inferno.” Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, Trinity College, November 2000. “What we don’t know about the Fascio dei Lavoratori in Corleone.” Second international conference on the history of community in Corleone, University of Palermo, Italy, June 24, 2000. “Voice and Exit in Modern Sicily.” First international conference on the history of community in Corleone. Corleone, Sicily, March 2000. “Corruption and Hypocrisy in Cold-War Italy.” International Conference on Cold-War Europe. Indiana University, February 1999. “Mafia and the labor movement in Sicily.” Videotape and teleconference. CNR/IMES Conference on the History of Community in Corleone, November 1998. “Mafia Maelstrom: Organized Crime in Contemporary Italy.” Delivered at two institutions: Middlebury College, November 1998. Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, Trinity College, March 1993. “What is Living and What is Dead in Giacomo Leopardi?” Annual Meeting of the MLA. Toronto, January 1998. “Crime and Punishment in Bribe City.” [A lecture about political events in Italy 19921994]: Middlebury College, November 1997. Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, Hamilton College, November 1995. SUNY at New Paltz, June 1995. “The Place of the Emotions in the Explanation of Italy’s Change of Regime.” Colloquium on Political Theory & the Emotions (Jon Elster, director), Columbia University, April 1996.

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“The Search for Meaning in Giacomo Leopardi’s Canto notturno [...].” Annual Meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies. Washington University, St. Louis, April 1996. “Some Tensions between Sincerity and Authenticity in Leopardi’s Autobiographical Poetry.” Annual Meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies. Washington University, St. Louis, April 1996. “An Unsuspected Alliance of Peasant Leagues and Mafiosi in the Great Strike of 1893”. Conference on The Sicilian Leagues and the Italian Crisis of the End of the 19th Century. Università di Palermo, Italy, September 1994. “Violence in Nineteenth-Century Italy.” SUNY at New Paltz, June 1994. “Giacomo Leopardi’s Le Ricordanze As Obsessional Art.” Annual Meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies. University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1994. “Why So Many Left: The Strife in Italy a Century Ago.” Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, Trinity College, February 1994. “The Logic of the Latifondo, 1815-1922.” New England Historical Association Fall Meeting. Brown University, October 1993. “Peasant-tenancy on Great Estates in Sicily.” Department of Economics Research Seminar Series, University of Connecticut, Storrs, October 1993. “Giacomo Leopardi’s Conception of Human Solidarity.” Annual Meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies. University of Texas at Austin, April 1993. “Mafia and the Sicilian Leagues of 1892-94.” Mafia Seminar Series. Università di Palermo, Italy, March 1993. “Comment on Alexander De Grand, ‘Giolitti and the Italian Socialist Party 1903-13’.” International Symposium: One Hundred Years of Italian Socialism 1892-1992. John F. Kennedy Library, University of Massachussetts at Boston, March 1993. “Historiography and Sociology.” Symposium on Historical Methodology. Università di Palermo, Italy, February 1993. “The Sicilian Leagues and Liberal Italy’s First Great Peasant Strike (1893).” Fondazione Culturale Lauro Chiazzese, Palermo, Italy, February 1993. “19th-Century Sicilian Norms of Justice and Revenge.” SUNY at New Paltz, June 1992.

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“Meaning and Rationality in Historical Inquiry.” Symposium on Historical Methodology. Università di Palermo, Italy, April 1992. “Italy’s Agrarian Commission of 1894: A Case Study in Social Engineering.” Fondazione Culturale Lauro Chiazzese, Palermo, Italy, October 1991. “Mafia in Nineteenth-Century Sicily.” SUNY at New Paltz, June 1991. “The Unification of Italy.” SUNY at New Paltz, June 1990. “Sharecropping and the Movement for Agrarian Reform in Late 19th-century Sicily.” Department of Political Economy Research Seminar. Università di Siena, Italy, June 1990. Courses The Godfather & Game Theory (FYSM about the mafia films and social science) Italian & European Fascism (seminar) Modern Italy Mafia: Historical and Social-Science Perspectives Italy and America Contemporary Italian Literature Senior Seminar in Italian Junior Seminar in Italian Senior Seminar in Public Policy Studies Intermediate Italian II: Composition and Literature Justice in Hell (FYSM on Dante’s Inferno) Sicily (seminar) Migration (FYSM) College service (Trinity College) • • • • • • •

Planning & Budget Council (2010–present) Financial Affairs Committee (2005–2007 and 2010–present; Chairperson AY14) Benefits Committee (2010–present) 403(b) Investment Committee (2012-present) Assessment Advisory Board (Fall 2012) Ad hoc task force on social-life policy—impartial faculty observer (Spring 2012) Chairperson, Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (2006) Designed pilot Presidential Scholarship Program (merit scholarships) • Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (2000–2001, 2003–2006, and Fall 2012) • Trinity College Re-Accreditation Committee - Sub-committee on Budget and Finance (2006–2007) • Planning and Budget Council - Sub-committee on Student Affairs (2006–2007) • Presidential Scholars Advisory Committee (2006–present) • Organizer & convenor, LACS Faculty Research Seminar Series (Spring 2010)

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• Selection Committee, Trinity College Research Grant in Modern Italian History (2002– present) • Academic planner, ISSSC Faculty Seminar “Evolution in Nature & Society”. Nine monthly sessions w/ Profs. Daniel Blackburn, William Butos, and Ralph Morelli, and ISSSC guests (2009-2010) • Evaluator of draft proposal for online ISSSC course: “Constructing a World-View for the 21st Century.” Project leader: Hector Sierra, Head of Risk and Analytics, World Bank Treasury (2010) • Acquisition of Max Corvo papers for the Watkinson Library. (Max Corvo was a leader of OSS operations behind enemy lines in northern Italy in WWII. His papers contain important documents from the Resistance in Italy.) Liaison between William Corvo (owner of papers) and College Librarian Richard Ross. • Interviewer, Trinity College assessment project of exit interviews with seniors. Rachael Barlow, project leader. (2010- present) • Academy of Lifelong Learning courses: “Justice in Hell: A Fresh Look at Dante’s Inferno” (Spring 2011) and “The Godfather & Game Theory” (Fall 2009) • Supervisor, project by Amanda Furie ’10, creation of a digital video about Italian Studies at Trinity College (2009–2010). • Advancement: Cumulatively raised $122,750 for the Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture (from the Italian American Legislative Caucus Educational Fund, The Sebastiano Ambrogio Foundation, UNICO, and individuals). Substantial role in larger formal campaigns: Founding the Italian Cultural Center at Trinity College All Things Italian at Trinity College Organizer, Public lecture and booksigning by Danny Meyer ’80, April 18, 2007. • Rome Campus initiative Comprehensive overhaul of curriculum. Creation of internship program. Creation of field seminars. Creation of sports-placements program. Strategic pricing initiative and recruitment of students from tier-one colleges. Professionalization of faculty appointments, compensation, and research support. Creation of Rome Campus website. Upgrade of library and introduction of comprehensive wireless computing. • Elderhostel/Italy Curriculum Development (with Chris Mark and Ashley Turney) Elderhostel “Turin-Milan” Elderhostel “Italian Opera” Elderhostel “The Jewish Heritage in Italy” (w/ Michael Campo) Elderhostel “Verona and Environs” (w/ Michael Campo) Road Scholar “Amalfi Coast” (with Laura Morelli) Road Scholar “Tuscany/Umbria” (with Laura Morelli) Road Scholar “Sicily” (with Mary Taylor Simeti) Elderhostel 30th Anniversary Program “Tuscany/Rome” Road Scholar “Siena” (with Harvard University) Elderhostel “Malta—Sicily”

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• Assisted in the establishment at Trinity College of the office of the Honorary Vice Consulate of Italy for the State of Connecticut. • Organizer, Trinity College “Inside the Music” Series of workshops/concerts by leading contemporary artists. In collaboration with the student musicians collective, Patricia Connolly (Director of Campus Events), and Michael Bradley (Public Relations Dept.): Medeski Martin & Wood. February 2004. Yohimbe Brothers - featuring DJ Logic and Vernon Reid. February 2003. Dickey Betts & Great Southern. September 2002. John Scofield Quartet. February 2002. Soulive. February 2002. Derek Trucks Band. November 2001. Gov’t Mule. March 2000. Derek Trucks Band. November 1999.

Professional service • Foreign correspondent, group research project, Sicilian Migration and Mutual-Aid Societies in Connecticut, University of Messina, Italy (Principal investigator: Prof. Marcello Saija), 2010-present. • Chairperson, panel about new media protest forms, Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), University of London, United Kingdom (November 23, 2012) • Chairperson, panel on Giacomo Leopardi, Conference, Reading and Translating Leopardi, Center for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania & Consulate General of Italy, Philadelphia, PA (March 30, 2012) • Chairperson, panel on Giacomo Leopardi, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Italian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 23, 2010. • Peer review of book manuscripts for McGraw Hill, Praeger, Westview Press, and Catholic University Press of America • Trustee, Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture (1999–present) • Executive Committee, Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture (1999–present) • Editorial Board, Italian Americana (2009–present) • External evaluator for tenure candidacy at Middlebury College • Convenor, “The Individual & Society Reading Group,” Trinity College (Hewlett Foundation) • Creation of website for the Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture (2008– present): www.cbendowment.org/ • Mock panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship application workshop, Connecticut College, April 23, 2009. • Organization of academic symposia, lectures, and conferences. Too numerous to list— below are some highlights:

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International conference (September 23-24, 2013) “Leopardi today” Symposia on Italy, featuring leading scholars (1995-present): “New Perspectives on Fascism” (Christopher Duggan, S. Kassow, B. W. Painter) “Fresh Looks at the Nature and Scope of Fascism” “Pope Pius XII, the Holocaust, and Rescue in Italy” (Broadcast by C-SPAN) “European Fascism” “The Resistance in Italy in WWII” “Rationality and Textual Criticism” “Leonardo Sciascia and Sicily” Several series of public lectures on Italy, featuring leading scholars (1995-present): “Fascist Voices” “Dante’s Sympathy for the Other—Or the Non-Stereotyping Imagination” “Old Masters and Young Geniuses in Italian Art” “Italy and America” “Behind the Scenes at the Vatican Museums” “Fresh Looks at the Renaissance” “The Change of Regime in Italy” “Roma” (A series marking the 25th anniversary of the Rome Campus) “Modern Italy and the Jews” Symposia and lecture series in the social sciences, featuring leading scholars (1997-present): Symposium, “Making Democracy Smarter: Markets or Deliberation?” Website: www.smartdemocracy.com Symposium, “Can we pin down equality?” Symposium, “A Passion for History” Symposium, “In Celebration of Language” “History and Justice” Lectures in public policy, featuring distinguished scholars (1997-present): Enrico Spolaore (Tufts U.), “Does Italy Make Sense? An Economist’s Perspective” Alberto Alesina (Harvard U.), “Is Europe going too far?” Jeffrey Miron (Boston U.), “Should we legalize drugs?” David Cutler (Havrard U.), “Are ghettoes good or bad?: A comparison of Italian immigrant enclaves and African American ghettoes”

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Conference New England Renaissance Society Annual Conference 2000, “Creativity in the Renaissance.” Kenneth Gouwens and Dario Del Puppo, co-organizers. Trinity College symposia “A Wealth of Nations: Markets and Cultures.” A Symposium in Honor of Frank Egan (Department of Economics), on the occasion of his retirement from full-time teaching. “Judges Making History: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Post-Cold-War Italy.” A Symposium in Honor of Connecticut Superior Court Judge Thomas Miano (Trustee, Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture) on the occasion of his retirement from The Bench. “Eye on the Ball: A Symposium in Honor of Robert A. Pedemonti ’60” “A Passion for History: A Symposium in Honor of Borden W. Painter, Jr. ’58” “In Celebration of Language: A Symposium in Honor of Kenneth Lloyd-Jones”

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References Supervisors at Trinity College: Borden W. Painter, Jr. 20th President of Trinity College [email protected] Dario Del Puppo, Director of Italian Languge section (860) 297-2379 [email protected] Carol Any, Chaiperson, Department of Language and Culture Studies (860) 297-2378 [email protected] Senior scholars of Italian literature (external references): Michael Caesar, Serena Professor of Italian, University of Birmingham, UK [011-44] (0) 121 414-5931 [email protected] H. Wayne Storey, Professor of Italian, Indiana University (812) 855-7035 [email protected] A senior historian of Modern Italy (external reference): Spencer DiScala, Research Professor of History, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston (617) 287-6888 [email protected] A senior social scientist (external reference): Jon Elster, Robert K. Merton Professor Social Sciences, Columbia University [email protected] (212) 854-5670

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