Society for Italian Historical Studies

We are proud to announce the launch of our new research tool, the SIHS DigitaLab. Consisting of some 2,500 digitized primary source materials, we hope that this database will help you in discovering old, and perhaps new, source materials. Buona ricerca! italianhistoricalstudies.org/resources/sihs…

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We are happy to announce that Gabriele Macron has won an honorable mention in our medieval/early modern article prize. Congrats! You can read Macron's article, "The Boundaries of Knowledge: Books, Experts, and Readers in Early Modern Mines," here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

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We are proud to announce that Matteo D'Avanzo has been awarded honorable mention in our Modern Article Prize You can read D'Avanzo's article, "Jews as Agents of Colonization: Italian Jewry, Carlo Alberto Viterbo and the Ethiopian Jews," here: rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1409/11…

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We are proud to announce the winner of the medieval/early modern article prize: Ori Ben-Shalom. Congrats! You can read Ori's prize winning article, "Public Health, Medicine, and Religious Reform in Carlo Borromeo’s Milan," here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Please visit our website to see more on Banks's article, as well as our other prize winners: italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-awards/…

We are proud to announce the winner of this year's 2025 SIHS Modern Article Prize: Daniel F. Banks. Congrats! You can find his prize winning article "Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860," here: doi.org/10.1093/pastj/…

Please visit our website for more. Applications are due July 1st, 2025: For medieval/early modern, see italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-awards/… For modern history, see: italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-awards/…

The SIHS is accepting applications for its two article prize awards for early-career scholars. Any early-career scholars who work on Italian history are strongly encouraged to apply. Awards will be given for modern Italian history and medieval/early modern history

We are seeking submissions for our annual early modern/medieval Best Article Prize in Italian History. All early-career scholars are encouraged to apply for this award. Applications are due July 1st, 2025. For more, visit our website: italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-awards/…

Emerging scholars who published a 2024 English-language journal article relating broadly to Modern Italian studies please APPLY for this amazing prize: italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-awards/… Deadline July 1; judges Profs. Ebner (Syracuse), Chamedes (Wisconsin), + Soper (Georgia) @ital_hist_stud

The SIHS's annual article prize competitions are now seeking submissions for the 2025 cycle. All early-career scholars of medieval, early-modern, and modern Italian history are highly encouraged to apply. For more please visit: italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-awards/… italianhistoricalstudies.org/events-awards/…

The Center for Italian Studies and Notre Dame Rome are pleased to invite you to an online lecture led by Professor Guri Schwarz, titled "A Struggle Against Indifference? Holocaust Analogies and Memory Politics in Contemporary Italy." Register here: italianstudies.nd.edu/news-events/ev…

Invitation to Lecture: "'Anticolonialism(s) as antiracism(s)?' Italian Radicals Facing 'Race' and the Colonial Question at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" by Prof. Silvana Patriarca (Fordham University) For more: italianstudies.nd.edu/news-events/ev…

The Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies is pleased to invite you to the second installment of the Fall 2024 Italian Research Seminar, scheduled for this Thursday, November 7th, from 5:00 to 6:30PM EST. See this link for more: italianstudies.nd.edu/news-events/ev…

Call for Applications: Italian Studies Library Research Award at Notre Dame The Center for Italian Studies and Notre Dame Global are now accepting grant applications for the 2025-2026 Italian Studies Library Research Award. More here: italianstudies.nd.edu/funding/extern…

You can find Dr. Scalvedi's article, "The Missionary at the Gates of 'Dawn': Educational Continuities from Fascist Somalia through the UN Order (1920s–50s)," here: muse.jhu.edu/article/903673

SIHS recently interviewed Dr. Caterina Scalvedi, winner of our annual Best Modern Article Prize, to discuss her work and article. Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=yQB1R7…

Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame is currently accepting applications to both the M.A. and Ph.D. Programs for the 2025-2026 academic year. Both M.A. and Ph.D. programs are fully funded. Please see their website for more: romancelanguages.nd.edu/graduate/itali…