Book Series

Book Series

The Institute publishes two book series dedicated to all aspects of the Italian diaspora. Books may vary from single-authored studies to collections of essays.

Studies in Italian Americana

New Directions in Italian and Italian-American History
Selected Essays from the Conference in Honor of Philip V. Cannistraro
Edited by Ernest Ialongo and William M. Adams

 On November 5, 2011 the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute hosted a conference entitled “New Directions in Italian and Italian American History: A Conference in Honor of Philip Cannistraro.” Cannistraro’s work managed to revolutionize both the fields of Italian history and Italian American history, and set in motion a future generation of scholars who would take up many of the questions he began raising so many years ago and, in turn, would demand answers using the same rigorous methodology that characterized his own work . . . This was Cannistraro’s legacy: to force new questions and lines of research in his two fields.”

— from the Introduction

Italian and Italian American Studies
$15.00
Studies in Italian Americana, Volume 6
ISBN 978-0-9703403-9-9

This book analyzes intra-ethnic elections in the United States, in the circumstance of American politicians of Italian descent who ran against each other in the State of New York. The first part examines the 2010 gubernatorial campaign between Andrew M. Cuomo and Carl P. Paladino, the highest-level intra-Italian electoral contest in contemporary times. The second part addresses the Congressional races between James Lanzetta and Vito Marcantonio in East Harlem in the 1930s, and the 1950 New York City mayoral elections, where the three major candidates-Vincent Impellitteri, Ferdinand Pecora, and Edward Corsi-were all Italian-born. The third part investigates the relationship between social demographics and the success of Italian American politicians in hegemonic districts where intra-Italian elections occur frequently.

Current Affairs/Historical Perspective/Empirical Analyses
$22.00
Studies in Italian Americana, Volume 5
ISBN: 978-0-9703403-8-2

 

Italian American Students in New York City, 1975-2000. A Research Anthology

Nancy L. Ziehler, Editor (2011)

 

Contributing Authors: Geraldine Lanzilli Battista, Audrey Blumberg, Lawrence V. Castiglione, Ciro T. De Rosa, Vincent J. Fuccillo, Jerome Krase, David E. Lavin, Vincenzo Milione, Itala Pelizzoli, James Perrone, Joseph V. Scelsa, Pierre Tribaudi, Nancy L. Ziehler

 

The ten research reports presented in this anthology examine the experiences of Italian-American high school, college and graduate students throughout New York City.  Culling more than thirty years of scholarship, Italian-American Students in New York City addresses a gap in the vast body of multicultural counseling literature pertaining to students of diverse populations and cultural contexts.  Readers will derive a prelimary understanding about a specific population whose experiences may differ substantially from their own and of the "standard American culture."  The data and analyses of these findings provide critical insights for counselors, psychologists, and educators of Italian-American students.

 

Social Science/Ethnic Studies

$30.00

Studies in Italian Americana, Volume 3

ISBN: 978-0-9703403-5-1

 

 

 

Mediated Ethnicity: New Italian-American Cinema

Edited by Joseph Sciorra, Anthony Julian Tamburri, Giuliana Muscio, and Giovanni Spagnoletti (2010)

 

Contributing Authors: Emelise Aleandri, Giorgio Bertellini, Giuliana Bruno, Robert Casillo, George De Stefano, Emilio Franzina, Simona Frasca, Fred L. Gardaphé, Silvia Giagnoni, Anna Camaiti Hostert, Stefano Luconi, Anton Giulio Mancino, Giuliana Muscio, Emanuele Pettener, Veronica Pravadelli, Jacqueline Reich, John Paul Russo, Joseph Sciorra, Alessandra Senzani, Ilaria Serra, Anthony Julian Tamburri, Vito Zagarrio

 

Cinema/Ethnic Studies

$28.00

Studies in Italian Americana, Volume 2

ISBN: 978-0-9703403-6-8

 

 

 

 

Uncertainty and Insecurity in the New Age

Vincent Parrillo, Editor (2009)

 

Contributing Authors: Rachele Benedetti, Rita Biancheri, Andrea Borhini, Dominic Candeloro, Rocco Caporale, Sofia Capuano, Luca Carbone, Michael Carosone, Valentina Cremonesini, Gabriele De Angelis, Simone Gabbriellini, Karyn Loscocco, Paul Magro, Vincenzo Mele, Stefania Milella, Vincenzo Milione, Noelle Molè, Sonia Paone, Gerardo Pastore, Itala Pelizzoli, Carmine Pizzirusso, Maria Grazia Ricci, Michele Rosa-Clot, Ino Rossi, Angelo Salento, Sarah Siciliano, Ferdinando Spina, Susanna Tardi, Mario Aldo Toscano, Christine Zinni

 

This collection of twenty-eight essays by Italian and Italian-American scholars explores the impact of globalization on individuals' lives in both Italy and the United States.  Examined are such concerns as the preservation of local cultures; the conflicting values resulting from social change; the maintenance of one's social identity and heritage; our resulting perceptions and political actions; and the effects on employment stability and workplace environment.

 

Social Science/Ethnic Studies

$32.00

Studies in Italian Americana, Volume 1

ISBN: 978-0-9703403-4-4

 

 

 

Transactions

Why Study Italian: Diverse Perspectives on a Theme
Edited by Roberto Dolci and Anthony Julian Tamburri

The idea for this editorial project was born out of discussions that paralleled those that were taking place around the re-implementation of the Advanced Placement Program in Italian, which the College Board had suspended after the 2010 administration of the Advanced Placement Exam in Italian. The goal of this collection is not to speak to the specifics of the Advanced Placement Program in Italian in any direct way. Instead, this compilation offers an array of different voices that address the general question, “Why study Italian,” which is presented here in its somewhat ambiguous manner. The phrase, “why study Italian,” may be understood as a statement or an interrogative. The underlying issue is that Italian is, today, a language very much alive, useful, and employed by many in a multitude of venues and sectors across the world.

Italian Language
$10.00
Transactions, Volume 2
ISBN 978-1-939323-01-9

 

 

Sì, Parliamo Italiano: Globalization of the Italian Culture in the United States

Vincenzo Milione and Christine Gambino (2009)

 

This study constitutes a first of a kind, as it examines how we might arrive at a more accurate number of people who speak Italian in the United States. In so doing, Christine Gambino and Vincenzo Milione look at the social surveys available to the public and analyze those figures against the background of a century-long evolution of the speaking, studying, and teaching of Italian nationwide. The reader of this study will come to understand that the socio-linguistic landscape for Italian is much more broad than we might have thought, precisely because the current tools available to us are outdated and, to some degree, dismissive of the situation.

 

Italian Language

$10.00

Transactions, Volume 1

ISBN: 978-0-9703403-3-7

 

 

 

Fuori Collana

 

Freeing the Angel from the Stone: A Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City

Jerry and Eleanor Koffler, Authors (2006)

 

"Jerry and Eleanor Koffler are consummate researchers who have brought life to the Piccirilli brothers.  In the late 1920s the Piccirilli brothers did dozens of beautiful stone carvings in the entrances, chancel screens, columns etc. at The Riverside Church [...] It is a great privilege to have this book available to our staff, tour guides, and researchers."

 

          -- Victor K. Jordan, Associate Archivist of The Riverside Church

 

 

Art/Italian Americana

$12.00

Fuori Collana, Volume 2

ISBN: 978-0-9703403-2-0

 

 

 

The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement

Philip V. Cannistraro, Editor (2000)

Italian immigrants made their homes in New York long before the Great Migration. Sometime in the 1640s a Venetian sailor named Cesare Alberti settled at the corner of Broad Street and Exchange Place in Manhattan and was perhaps the earliest Italian homeowner in the city. During the era of the American Revolution, farmers, merchants and musical artists followed Alberti's example, creating a small but noticeable Italian presence in the city.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Italian refugees fleeing political repression settled in New York. One early exile was the artist Nicolino Calyo, who painted street scenes. Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's librettist, also settled here in 1830, helped to found the Italian Opera House and became the first Professor of Italian at Columbia University.

Perhaps the most prominent political exile to come to New York was Giuseppe Garibaldi, the military hero responsible for the unification of Italy. When the American Civil War broke out, Italians and other immigrants in New York formed the Garibaldi Guard, a volunteer group officially known as the 39th New York Regiment. Immigrant Luigi Palma di Cesnola fought in the Union army and received a Congressional Medal of Honor. After the conflict, di Cesnola served as United States Consul to Crete and in 1880 became the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.