In case you missed my big prize news: Partners in Gatekeeping: How Italy Shaped US Immigration Policy over Ten Pivotal Years 1891-1901 (UGA Press) won the 2024 Italian American Studies Association Book Prize in October!

Twitter is dead, dead, deadsky so I moseyed back here to find I have 520 followers! 2x as many as I ever had over on that hellsite. Guess I better get to posting?

Today is the day! Come see me talk at 6pm at Calandra Institute in NYC about my book, engaging foreign language sources and historiographies in US history, and what we see when we look at the history of American gatekeeping through Italian eyes.

Found a little labor history on the wall at the dentist’s office today

Pleased you’ll be able to read my chapter “On the Border in New Orleans” alongside the fantastic scholarship in Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move, in 2025!

Upcoming book events in two fantastic locations: May 9 in NYC at 6pm EST - Calandra Institute, Queens College CUNY and May 28 in Rome at 5pm CET-Centro Studi Americani. Take your pick! @ugapress.bsky.social

Wondering what my book about immig. policy is doing in a series on Southern history? Listen👇 about the transnational policy impact of the scheme that brought Italians to farm cotton in rural Arkansas 130 years ago, and how Italians ended up in AR in the first place! www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

Turns out giving a book talk is great fun.

Spotted in the wild for the first time…@Pearl’s Books, Fayetteville

On my way in to record an interview on #PartnersinGatekeeping for Fayetteville NPR station KUAF’s popular show Ozarks at Large. Keep an 👂out for the air date y’all 📻

First post = first book talk announcement! Wednesday, Oct. 25 in Tontitown, Arkansas. Come hear about how Italian immigrants shaped US immigration policy in the first ten years of unified federal border controls: news.uark.edu/articles/664...