Caterina Scalvedi è Ragusa Research Fellow e Visiting Scholar all’Institute for European Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. Dopo aver conseguito la laurea triennale e magistrale alla Sapienza Università di Roma, nel 2023 ha concluso il dottorato di ricerca alla University of Illinois Chicago con una tesi sulla storia dell’educazione per sudditi nelle colonie italiane in Africa, e nel 2023-2024 ha lavorato come Visiting Assistant Professor (Modern European History) alla Wake Forest University, in North Carolina. I suoi interessi di ricerca includono il colonialismo europeo e le sue eredità, ma anche la storia del lavoro, del fascismo, dell’educazione e delle reti missionarie cattoliche e protestanti.
In Preparazione:
Monografia: Subjects of Empire: Colonial Education and Imperial Crisis in Italian Africa, 1890-1950.
Articoli:
“The Missionary at the Gates of ‘Dawn’: Educational Continuities from Fascist Somalia through the UN Order (1920s-50s).” Northeast African Studies 22, n. 1 (2023): 45-89.
Capitoli:
“Making the Colonial School: Catholic Teachers and Muslim Students in Italian Somalia (1930-1941).” In Narratives of Education in Times of Colonization and Decolonization in Africa (1920s-1970s), edited by Pierre Guidi, Ellen Vea Rosnes, Jean-Luc Martineau. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2024.
“Cruce et aratro: Fascism, Missionary Schools, and Labor in 1920s Italian Somalia.” In Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. Policies, Paradigms, and Entanglements, 1890s-1980s, edited by Miguel Bandeira Jéronimo, Hugo Dores, and Damiano Matasci. Cham, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-27801-46.
Recensioni:
Review of Erica Moretti, The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. H-Italy. Forthcoming in 2024.
Bilingual (English and French) Review of Pierre Guidi, Éduquer la Nation en Éthiopie. École, État et identités dans le Wolaita (1941-1991). Rennes, France: IRD Editions, 2020. Revue d’Histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique. June 2021. doi: 10.51185/journals/rhca.2021.e494.
