Email: mbencivenni@hostos.cuny.edu
Office Tel: 718-518-6573
Biography: A native Italian and CUNY Graduate Center alumna, Marcella Bencivenni has been teaching history at Hostos since 2004. Her research focuses on the histories of im/migration, labor, and social movements in the modern United States, with a particular interest in the Italian diaspora. She is the author of Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940 (NYU Press, 2011, repr. 2014), and co-editor of Radical Perspectives on Immigration (Routledge, 2008), a special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy of which she is an editorial board member. She is currently serving as the editor of the Italian American Review.
Courses Typically Taught:
HIS 210 U.S. History Through the Civil War
HIS 211 U.S. History From Reconstruction to the Present
Personal Website: http://marcellabencivenni.com/