SCALVEDI Caterina

scalvec@wfu.edu

https://history.wfu.edu/people/scalvec

Wake Forest University

BIOGRAFIA

Caterina Scalvedi è Visiting Assistant Professor presso il Dipartimento di Storia della Wake Forest University, dove insegna storia europea contemporanea. Dopo aver conseguito la laurea triennale e magistrale all’Università di Roma La Sapienza, 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.

PUBBLICAZIONI

In Preparazione:

Subjects of Empire: Italian Colonialism, Education, and Development in Africa and the Mediterranean (1880s-1950s). Monograph in preparation.

“Between Nation and Empire: School Materials for Italian Colonial Subjects.” Article forthcoming in the double peer-reviewed journal Contemporanea in Spring 2025 within a special issue on Italian colonialism and the publishing sector.

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, forthcoming in Fall 2023.

“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, 143-171. 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.