Faculty Name:David Aliano, PhD

Areas of Interest

• Modern Italy and Latin America
• Italian transnational and comparative studies
• National and ethnic identities
• Italian fascism and anti-fascism
• Travel and tourism

Publications

Books

Mussolini’s National Project in Argentina, Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.

Book Chapters

“American Travel Encounters with Fascist Italy,” in Brian Seitz and Ron Scapp eds., Philosophy, Travel, and Place: Being in Transit, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2018).

Articles

• “Citizenship and Belonging: The Case of the Italian Vote Abroad,” Ethnic Studies Review, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2010.
• “Revisiting Saint Domingue: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution in the French Colonial Debates of the Late Nineteenth Century (1870-1900),” French Colonial History, Volume 9, January-June 2008.
• “Curing the Ills of Central America: The United Fruit Company Medical Department and Corporate America’s Mission to Civilize,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y El Caribe, Volume 17, Number 2, July-December 2006.
• “Brazil through Italian Eyes: The Debate over Emigration to São Paulo during the 1920s,” Altreitalie, Number 31, July-December 2005.

Reviews

• Book Review: James W. Martin, Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018), Diplomatic History Volume 43, Issue 3, June 2019.
• Book Review: Michael Seidman, Transatlantic Antifascisms: From the Spanish Civil War to the End of World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), The Historian, Volume 81, Issue 1, Spring 2019.
• Book Review: Teresa Fiore, Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017), Journal of Modern Italian Studies Vol. 24, number 1, 2019.
• Book Review: Reto Hofmann, The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy 1915-1952, The Historian Volume 80, Issue 1: Spring 2018.
• Film review: Gianni Torres, Le mamme di San Vito, Italy 2010, Associazione Culturale Altre Produzione, The Italian American Review, Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2013
• Book review: Loretta Baldassar and Donna R. Gabaccia, Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, July 2012
• Book review: Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy 1919-1945, European History Quarterly, July 2011

Select Presentations

• “Conflicted Gazes: Visual Depictions of Italy for the American Tourist Market (1922-1953),” Eye-centricity and the Visual Cultures of Italy and the Diaspora, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY, New York, April 26-27, 2019.
• “Tourist Encounters with Italy’s Changing Political Landscape: From Fascism through Reconstruction,” Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, New York, March 1, 2019.
• “Understanding America’s Alt-Right in its Transnational Context: The Far-Right Political Parties of Italy, France, and Germany,” Association for Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA March 8-10, 2018.
• “The Making of America’s Italy: Popular Tourism in the Postwar Era,” Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 9-11, 2017.
• “Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Immigrants and Refugees in Italian Narrative and Film” National Association for Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA March 23-25, 2017.
• “Examining the Social Construction of Race in the Americas: Distinctive Systems of Social Control” National Association for Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, March 17-19, 2016.
• “A Tourist’s Italy: Reproducing Italian Identity for the American Traveler (1922-1945),” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Ontario, April 30, 2015.
• “The Transcultural Life of Cuban Ethnographer Fernando Ortiz,” National Association for Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, Fort Collins, Colo., April 11-12, 2013.
• “Transnational Migration Then and Now: Italian and Central American Experiences Compared,” National Association for Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., April 5-7, 2012.
• “Debating the Nation Abroad: Fascist Propaganda and the Italian Diaspora” American Historical Association, Annual Conference, Boston, Mass., January 6-9, 2011.
• “Re-Imagining the Nation: Italian National Narratives Abroad (1922-1945)” New Directions in Italian and Italian American History: A Conference in Honor of Philip V. Cannistraro, November 5, 2011.
• “Between Two Worlds: Negotiating Italian Identity in Argentina during the Interwar Years” Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies, February 12, 2010.
• “An Italian Education in Latin America: The Scuole Italiane all’Estero in Argentina (1922-1945),” Dagli Appennini alle Ande: The Italian Presence in Latin and Central America, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fla., March 28-29, 2008.
• “Responses to Fascism from the Italian Community in Argentina,” Italians in the Americas: An International Conference, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, New York, N.Y., April 24-27, 2008.

Professional Affiliations

• Alpha Mu Gamma, National Vice President and Regional Vice President for New York
• Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies
• Ethnic Studies Review, Associate Editor
• Association for Ethnic Studies (AES)
• American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS)
• American Historical Association (AHA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)