Cool 3D rendering of an exhibit I co-curated!

Resisting Italian American identity and politics as racist and xenophobic.

Italian Americans for Zohran www.instagram.com/italiansforz... @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

My chapter in ‘Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move’ (out this month with @nyupress.bsky.social) looks at family photos and the #visualculture of Italian migrant home visits. @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social

I’m excited to have an article in this collection about photos of Italian migrant home visits.

Call for Papers for the Institute's 2026 annual conference on the theme of "Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and across Italian Mobilities." DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: SEPTEMBER 15th.

May 1 the exhibit @josephsciorra.bsky.social & I curated opens: CREATIVITY AND WORLD WAR II ITALIAN POWS IN THE UNITED STATES I was happy to be in NYC to celebrate it w/colleagues, friends, former students and a curators-selfie! pics/info @calandrainstitute.bsky.social shorturl.at/JeC1f

A broadcast of the @radiopopolare.bsky.social program "Sacca di diavolo" on the subject of European #Easter #folkmusic with hosts Giancarlo Nostrini and Marco ??, April 18, 1992. youtu.be/-BlWJllhrp0?...

Our exhibit, opening May 1st, “Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States,” curated by Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra, and designed by Polly Franchini, is coming together. @laura-e-ruberto.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social

Martin Wong, the “Cosimo de’ Medici of the aerosol set.” His collection is highlighted in “Above Ground,” an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, until August 10th www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/a...

New Yorker cartoon.

I’m sorry to read of Lou Nasti’s passing. I interviewed him in 2006 for my chapter on Christmas house displays for my book ‘Built with Faith’ (2015). He made Dyker Heights, Bklyn, the mecca of holiday lights. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/n...

The next time you see me, I'll be handing you one of these: bookmarks for our edited volume on unauthorized European migrations to the United States (forthcoming May 2025) @dbattisti.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social

My research informs the new podcast “La Grande Famiglia” about a US radio program that recorded the voices of Italian relatives and aired them. www.raiplaysound.it/programmi/la...

reading Chabon’s ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union’ (2007) in the morning then Cohen Bros’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ (2013) at night and noticed something….

I’m curious about the significance of the image of a tired, resting, or sleepy St. Joseph in Italian paintings of the Nativity. This is not the prone St. Joseph who while sleeping receives divine messages before the Nativity.

Thinking about family photos: “What an image can really reveal, and how memories shift and shape our sense of self. ‘Is a photograph actually a record of something, or is it meaningless without interpretation?’ she asks.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/m...

So many amazing new books by colleagues! Where to begin?