Joseph Sciorra is Associate Director for Academic and Cultural Programs, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY. He is the editor of the Italian American Review, a bi-annual social science journal.
Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history emerita at the University of Toronto. She previously served as director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of many books and articles on class, gender, and ethnicity in American immigration history, on migration in global history, and on Italian emigration around the world. She is a past president of the Social Science History Association and writes often about interdisciplinarity in migration studies. She is a descendant of Italian migrants and the first person in her family to obtain a higher education.
DONNA GABACCIA is Charles H. Stone Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of From Sicily to Elizabeth Street, Militants and Migrants, the bibliography Immigrant Women in the United States and editor of Seeking Common Ground.
Stefano Luconi teaches US history at the University of Padua in Italy. His research interests focus on immigration to the United States, with specific attention to Italian Americans’ voting behavior and transformation of ethnic identity. His publications include From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia (SUNY Press, 2001) and The Italian-American Vote in Providence, Rhode Island, 1916–1948 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004). His most recent book is L’anima nera degli Stati Uniti: Quattrocento anni di presenza afro-americana (CLEUP, 2020).
Joseph Sciorra is Associate Director for Academic and Cultural Programs, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY. He is the editor of the Italian American Review, a bi-annual social science journal.
