Please join us in congratulating our alumna Marisa Escolar, who received Honorable Mention for 20th and 21st Centuries, for Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy!

Please join us in congratulating our alumna Stephanie Malia Hom, who won the Prize for 20th and 21st Centuries, for Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention!

Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Henrike C. Lange on receiving the 2020 Prytanean Faculty Award!

Since 1986, The Prytanean Honor Society Alumnae Association awards annually a financial grant to an outstanding woman junior faculty member on the Berkeley campus. Through a competitive process, the winner is chosen for her record as a distinguished teacher, her demonstrated scholarly achievement, and her success as a role model for students at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Please join us in congratulating Professor Diego Pirillo!

The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its tenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies to Diego Pirillo, of the University of California, Berkeley, for The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England, and the Reformation, published by Cornell University Press.

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Professor Barbara Spackman‘s book Accidental Orientalists: Modern Italian Travelers in Ottoman Lands, published by Liverpool University Press in July 2017, has recently won two prizes:

The 2017 American Association for Italian Studies Prize for the Best Book in the category of Renaissance, 18th and 19th Centuries, and

The 2017 Modern Language Association Howard R. Marraro Prize Honorable Mention (pictured, photo credit Edward Savaria, Jr.).

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Congratulations to Professor Mia Fuller, who has been awarded a prestigious National Humanities Center Fellowship for her book project on “Mussolini Threshing Still: Inertia Memoriae, Italy, and Fascist Monuments.” She will be spending the 2018-19 academic year in Durham, North Carolina.