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RHIANNON EVANGELISTA CURRICULUM VITAE CONTACT INFORMATION Address: Department of History and Philosophy, 402 Bartow Ave, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.rhiannonevangelista.com EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in History, Emory University, USA 2013 Dissertation: From Dictatorship to Democracy? Giuseppe Bottai and the Legacy of Fascism in Italy, 1945-1960 Advisor: Dr. Walter L. Adamson Master of Arts in History, University of Georgia, USA 2006 Thesis: Divergent Fascisms: Gentile, Bottai, De Vecchi, and the 1935 Debate over Italian Education Advisor: Dr. David D. Roberts Bachelor of Arts in History, University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada 2004 Thesis: Fascist Intellectuals and Discourses of “Action” in the Pre-Fascist Period, 1900-1918 Advisor: Dr. Patrick Cavaliere PUBLICATIONS “The particular kindness of friends: ex-Fascists, clientage and the transition to 2015 democracy in Italy, 1945–1960,” Modern Italy 20 (4), Nov 2015. “Was Fascism Primarily a Modernizing, Revolutionary Movement?” in Patrick 2016 G. Zander, The Rise of Fascism: History, Documents, and Key Questions, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016. EMPLOYMENT Limited Term Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University, USA 2014-Present Course: HIST 4490 The Italian Mafia in History and Film Course: HIST 1112 Modern World History Course: HIST 1100 Introduction to World History Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University, USA 2013-2014 Course: HIST241 The Italian Mafia in History and Film Course: HIST385 The Aftermath of World War II in Europe Course: HIST385 From Mussolini to Berlusconi: Italian Politics and Culture in the Twentieth Century Course: HIST487 Democracy’s Discontents: Challenges to Liberal Democracy in Europe Teaching Associate, Emory University, USA 2009 Course: HIST202 The Making of Modern Europe, 1500-Present Teaching Assistant, Emory University, USA 2008 Course: HIST202 The Making of Modern Europe, 1500-Present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Gainesville State College (now the University of North Georgia), USA 2006-2007 Course: HIST1112 World History, 1600-Present Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, USA 2004-2006 Course: HIST2302 History of Western Society Since 1500 Course: HIST2111 U.S. History to 1865 Course: HIST2112 U.S. History 1865 to Present Teaching Assistant, University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada 2001-2002 Course: HIST1101 The European Experience AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS (SELECTED) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship 2010 Professional Development Support Funds (Competitive), Laney Graduate School, Emory University 2008, 2009 Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal (awarded to the most outstanding student graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree), University of New Brunswick Saint John 2004 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Twenty-Third International Conference of Europeanists, Philadelphia, PA 2016 Paper: Fascists in a Post-Fascist World: Ex-Elites Negotiate Belonging in Democratic Italy, 1945-1960. Panel Co-organizer: Resilience in Reconstruction: History and Identity in Postwar Italy. American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Society for Italian Historical Studies, Atlanta, GA 2016 Paper: (Re)Writing Fascism: Ex-Fascist Memoirs, the Popular Press and the Construction of the Dictatorial Past in Democratic Italy, 1945-1965. Panel organizer: Political Responses to Change in Cold War Italy: Public Opinion, Elite Contributions, and Foreign Perceptions American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Society for Italian Historical Studies, New York, NY 2015 Paper: Fascists in a Post-Fascist World: Ex-Elites Negotiate Belonging in Democratic Italy, 1945-1960 Panel organizer: Intellectual Ex-Elites and the Struggle for Belonging in Post-World War II Europe European Studies Symposium, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 2015 Paper: “La cosa nostra: The Mafia in Contemporary Italian Cinema.” Twenty-First International Conference of Europeanists, Washington, DC 2014 Paper: Old Fascism in New Clothes? Fascist Critique of the Postwar Italian Republic, 1953-1959. Chair and Discussant for panel: “Tactics of Legitimacy in Transitional States.” Nineteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Boston, MA 2012 Paper: (Re)Writing Fascism: Ex-Fascist Memoirs, the Popular Press and the Construction of the Dictatorial Past in Democratic Italy, 1945-1960. MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association 2008-present Council for European Studies 2011-present Society for Italian Historical Studies 2014-present Golden Key International Honors Society 2004-Present OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Brought undergraduate student to American Historical Association 2016 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA Served as Proposal Reviewer for the Twenty-Second International 2014 Conference of Europeanists, Paris, France Guest Lecturer on Italian Futurism in HIST 4490: The World in 1914, 2014 Kennesaw State University Female Emory Graduate Student Mentor 2014-present LANGUAGES Fluent in Italian, some reading and speaking knowledge of German, reading knowledge of French. REFERENCES Supplied upon request.