Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals - “‘Americans Must Show Justice in Immigration Policies Too’: The Passage of the 1965 Immigration Act,” Journal of Policy History (under review).
- “‘An Acrid Odor of the 1920s is Again in the Air’: The Strange Career of American Nativism and What John Higham’s Strangers in the Land Can still Help us Uncover Today,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (April 2012). Part of an invited roundtable discussion on “Revisiting John Higham’s Strangers in the Land: A Classic in a New Era of Migration and Migration Studies,” Organization of American Historians Conference, April 2010.
Essays in Books - “‘In the name of God … and in the Interest of our Country:’” Cold War, Foreign Policy, and Italian Americans’ Mobilization against Immigration Restriction,” in Joseph Sciorra and Laura Ruberto, eds., Real Italians, New Immigrants: Interpreting Postwar Italian Immigration to the United States (under review).
- “Lyndon B. Johnson and Immigration,” with Donna R. Gabaccia, in Mitchell Lerner, ed., A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2012).
- “Cultures of Origin: Southern Europe, 1830-1914” with Marina G. Maccari-Clayton, in Diethelm Knauf and Barry Moreno, eds, Leaving Home. Migration Yesterday and Today, 2nd Edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010): 79-88.
Encyclopedia Entries - “Immigration and Nationality Act (1952) – McCarran–Walter Act,” in Patrick J. Hayes, ed., The Making of Modern Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012).
- “Migration and Nativism, United States,” in Immanuel Ness, ed., The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). Contribution by invitation.
- “Anti-Immigration, World War I and World War II,” in Kathleen Arnold, ed., Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011). Contribution by invitation.
- “Organization of American Chinese Women,” in Hasia Diner, ed., Encyclopedia of American Women's History (New York: Facts on File, 2010). Contribution by invitation.
- “Boardinghouses,” in Hasia Diner, ed. Encyclopedia of American Women’s History (New York: Facts on File, 2010). Contribution by invitation.
- “U.S./Canada Immigration Policy, 1945 to Present,” in Alfred Andrea, ed. World History Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010).
Book Reviews - Review of Simone Cinotto, ed., Italian American History and Consumer Culture, Spec. Issue of Voices in Italian Americana (Spring 2010), Altreitalie 42 (January-June 2011).
- Review of Joel Perlmann, Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immigrant Origins and Second-Generation Progress, 1890-2000 (2005), Archivio Storico dell’Emigrazione Italiana 6, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 178-180.
- Review of Aristide Zolberg, Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (2006), Archivio Storico dell’Emigrazione Italiana 6, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 180-182.
Research Grants and Fellowships
- Sponsored Research Grant, St. Bonaventure University, 2012-2013
- Nominee, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellows Program, 2009
- Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Kansas, 2006-2007
- William T. Belt Dissertation Research Scholarship, Graduate School, University of Kansas, 2005
- Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2005
- Loewenstein-Wiener Fellowship, Marcus Rader Center of the American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College, 2005
- Culture and Heritage Award for Graduate Research, National Italian American Foundation, 2005
- Robert L. Greaves Memorial Prize, Department of History, University of Kansas, 2005
- Donald R. McCoy Memorial Dissertation Research Award, Department of History, University of Kansas, 2005
- Arthur and Judith McClure Memorial Award for Graduate Research, Department of History, University of Kansas, 2004
Prizes and Awards - Social Science History Association Tilly Travel Award for Best Paper Proposal, 2009
- American Italian Historical Association Conference Graduate Student Subsidy, 2008
- Nominee, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Graduate Studies, 2008
- Organization of American Historians/Immigration and Ethnic History Society John Higham Travel Grant, 2007
- Graduate Student Service Prize, Carnegie Mellon Committee, University of Kansas, 2006
- Social Science History Association and Rockefeller Travel Grant Award for Best Paper Proposal, 2005
- Award for Teaching Excellence, Department of French and Italian, University of Kansas, 2003
Selected Academic Presentations
- Presenter, “A Thing of Shreds and Patches:” Cold War, Faith, and Mobilization against Immigration Restriction,” Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, 2013.
- Presenter and panel organizer, “A Thing of Shreds and Patches:” Challenging Immigration Restriction through Refugee Legislation,” American Historical Association, New Orleans, 2013.
- Chair and roundtable organizer, “What Happens When We Are What We Study? Migrant Scholars and Migration Studies,” Social Science History Association, Vancouver, 2012.
- Chair and commentator, “The American Catholic Church and the ‘Problem’ of Immigration in the 20th Century,” American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, 2012.
- Chair and commentator, “Media Representation of Migration Issues,” Social Science History Association, Boston, MA, 2011.
- Presenter and panel co-organizer, “Italians on the Move: American Immigration Restriction and Illegal Immigration from Italy,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, DC, 2011.
- Presenter and panel co-organizer, “The Rise of Illegal Immigration from Europe: An Unintended Consequence of the Quota Acts,” American Historical Association, Boston, MA, 2011.
- Presenter (invited presentation), “Caught Between Two Worlds: From Italians in America to Italian Americans,” American Studies Association, San Antonio, TX, 2010.
- Presenter (invited presentation), “‘Assimilated but Undigested’: Italian Americans and American Jews in the United States in the 1930s,” Canadian Historical Association, Montreal, Canada, 2010.
- Presenter (invited presentation), “Revisiting John Higham’s Strangers in the Land: A Classic in a New Era of Migration and Migration Studies,” Roundtable, Organization of American Historians, Washington, DC, 2010.
- Presenter (invited presentation), “The Intergenerational Legacies of Louise Tilly’s Work,” Roundtable, Social Science History Association, Long Beach, CA, 2009.
- Chair and commentator (panel organizer), “Emerging Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Italian Migration in the Modern West,” Social Science History Association, Long Beach, CA, 2009.
Professional Service
- Executive Board Member (elected), Immigration Ethnic History Society (IEHS), 2010-present
- Member, IEHS Nominating Committee, 2010-present
- Member, IEHS Website Task Force, 2010-present
- Co-Chair, Migration Network, Social Science History Association, 2009-present
- Web Co-editor, Italian Americana, 2009-present
- Member, IEHS Local Arrangements Committee, Washington, DC, 2010
- Subscriptions Officer, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2009
- Co-chair, Labor Network, Social Science History Association, 2007-2009
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