H-Announce

Essay Contest 2022-2023: FRANCESCO DURANTE AWARD

FOR ITALIAN DIASPORA HISTORY / LITERATURE/
CULTURAL STUDIES
Announcement published by Joseph Sciorra on Thursday, March 9, 2023
Type:
Prize
Date:
August 31, 2023
Subject Fields:
American History / Studies, Ethnic History / Studies, Immigration & Migration History / Studies,
Italian History / Studies, Race / Ethnic Studies

ESSAY CONTEST 2022-2023

FRANCESCO DURANTE AWARD FOR ITALIAN DIASPORA HISTORY / LITERATURE/ CULTURAL STUDIES

To honor the legacy of the late Francesco Durante (b. Anacapri, 1952; d. Anacapri, 2019) an
annual prize of $1,000 will be awarded for the best original essay in English or Italian by an
emergent scholar of Italian diaspora studies (including literature, history, and cultural
studies). The committee will consider essays within the time span 2021-2023 — unpublished
ones, not exceeding 7,500 words (notes and bibliography included) and essays of less than
book length published up to the deadline for submission, see below.

Special consideration will be given to essays consistent with the spirt of Francesco Durante’s
monumental Italoamericana: storia e letteratura degli Italiani negli Stati Uniti 1880-1943. Vol.
2 (Mondadori, 2005, or its English translation published by Fordham University Press in 2014).

The contest is open to doctoral students and those with the doctorate up to five years after
receipt of the degree.

Submissions are due on or before August 31, 2023, with the outcome to be announced in the
fall of 2023 and the award ceremony held, with the author presentation of the work in New
York City at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, on a date to be set in late fall or
early winter of 2023.

All inquiries and final submissions should be sent to the following email address:
calandra@qc.cuny.edu.
Contact Info:

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, The City University of New York

Contact Email:

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Citation: Joseph Sciorra. Essay Contest 2022-2023: FRANCESCO DURANTE AWARD FOR ITALIAN DIASPORA HISTORY /
LITERATURE/ CULTURAL STUDIES. H-Announce. 03-09-2023.
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12530604/essay-contest-2022-2023-francesco-durante-award-italian
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.