Simone Cinotto is currently Tiro a Segno Visiting Professor in Italian American Studies at the Italian Studies Department, New York University. He teaches 20th-Century History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo and Colorno (Italy), where he is the Coordinator of the Master Programs in “Food Culture and Communications” and "Italian Gastronomy and Tourism." He is a member of the Piero Bairati Center for American and Euro-American Studies at the Universities of Turin and Eastern Piedmont, Italy. He also teaches US Social History at the University of Turin. He received his Doctorate in American History from the University of Genoa in 2001.
Cinotto is the author of Una famiglia che mangia insieme: cibo ed etnicità nella comunità italoamericana di New York, 1920-1940 [A Family That Eats Together: Food and Ethnicity in the Italian American Community of New York City, 1920-1940] (2001) and Terra soffice uva nera: viticoltori piemontesi in California prima e dopo il Proibizionismo [Soft Earth Black Grape: Labor, Social Capital, and Race in the Experience of Italian Winemakers in California] (2008). His article “Leonard Covello, the Covello Papers, and the Eating Habits of Italian Immigrants in New York” won the 2004 David Thelen Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians for the best article on American history published in a language other than English, and was published in The Journal of American History.
His current projects include a book on the mental world of an Italian immigrant to the United States (I Won't Be Satisfied Until I Travelled the Entire World: The Transnational Imagination of an Italian Immigrant to the United States, 1905-1942); an essay on the impact of the New Deal on the Italian Americans of New York (with Gerald J. Meyer; "The Italian Americans of New York and the New Deal: Ethnicity and Class in Tension"), and a history of consumption among Italian Americans.
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Simone Cinotto
Tiro a Segno Visiting Professor of Italian American Studies
New York University
Department of Italian Studies
Room 301
24 West 12th Street
New York , NY 10011-8604
Ph. (212) 998-3852
simone.cinotto@nyu.edu
Simone Cinotto
University of Gastronomic Sciences
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 9
Frazione Pollenzo
12042 Bra (CN), Italy
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s.cinotto@unisg.it
Simone Cinotto
Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Euro-Americani "Piero Bairati"
Dipartimento di Studi Politici
via Giolitti, 33
10123 Torino, Italy
tel. (39)-011-670-4118
fax (39)-011-670-4114
simone.cinotto@unito.it
Titles
2001 -- University of Genoa, History Department
Doctorate in American History (Advisers: Anna Maria Martellone and Maurizio Vaudagna);
1996 -- University of Turin, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Laurea in History (Adviser: Maurizio Vaudagna).
Professional Employment
2007-present -- Director, Master in "Food Culture: Communicating Quality Products," University of Gastronomic Sciences, Colorno;
2006-present -- Professor, Food History and Culture, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo and Colorno;
2005-present -- Professor, Master in American Studies, University of Turin;
2004-2006 -- Professor, Master in Local and Public History, University of Eastern Piedmont at Biella;
2003-2005 -- Teaching Assistant, Contemporary History [online], University of Eastern Piedmont at Vercelli;
2001-2004 -- Teaching Assistant, Contemporary History, University of Eastern Piedmont at Vercelli;
2002-present -- Scientific Coordinator, public history project on the Biellese emigration in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century;
2001-present -- Scientific Coordinator, public history project on the social history of rice, University of Eastern Piedmont at Vercelli.
Fellowships, Awards, and Grants
2008 -- Tiro a Segno Fellowship, Visiting Professor at the Department of Italian Studies, New York University
2004 -- David Thelen Prize, awarded by The Organization of American Historians for the best article on American history published in a language other than English;
2004 -- The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, Fellow;
2002 -- Bellonci Foundation, Rome, Research Project “Narrare la storia: dal documento al racconto”, Grantee;
2007, 2000, 1998 -- Columbia University, New York, Visiting Scholar;
2000 -- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Visiting Scholar;
2000, 1998 -- The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, Resident Fellow;
1999 -- Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo, Summer Institute in American Studies sponsored by the USIA;
1997 -- “Alberto Aquarone” Award for the best Italian thesis in American Studies, Third University of Rome, Lois Roth Foundation, National Republican Endowment.
Publications -- Books
Una famiglia che mangia insieme: cibo ed etnicità nella comunità italoamericana di New York, 1920-1940, [A Family That Eats Together: Food and Community in the Italian American Community of New York, 1920-1940] Turin, Otto, 2001 (458 pp.);
Terra soffice uva nera: vitivinicoltori piemontesi in California prima e dopo il Proibizionismo [Soft Soil Black Grape: Northern Italian Winemakers in California Before and After Prohibition], Turin, Otto, 2008 (198 pp.);
La civiltà del grasso: prodotti tipici e cultura del maiale nel Piemonte Orientale, [The Civilization of Fat: Specialty Foods and Hog Culture in Eastern Piedmont] Vercelli, Mercurio, 2005 (196 pp.);
“And Then The Rice Fields Emptied Out…”: History, Memory, and Representation of the “Rice Society” in the Great Transformation, 1945-1965 (edited), Vercelli, Mercurio, 2007 (272 pp.);
Comunicare il passato: cinema, giornali e libri di testo nella narrazione storica, [Telling the Past: Film, Newspapers, and Textbooks in the Historical Narrative] (edited with Marco Mariano), Torino, L’Harmattan Italia, 2004 (759 pp.);
Villaggi globali: storia locale e storia dell’emigrazione, [Global Villages: Local History and Migration Histories] (edited), Biella, Ecomuseo della Valle Elvo-Serra, 2005;
Colture e culture del riso: una prospettiva storica, [Rice Cultures: An Historical Perspective] (edited),Vercelli, Mercurio, 2002 (292 pp.).
Publications -- Articles
“Leonard Covello, the Covello Papers, and the Eating Habits of Italian Immigrants in New York,” Journal of American History, 91, 2, Sept. 2004 (pp. 497-521);
"Il mondo nel piatto: globalizzazione e cucine nazionali tra passato e presente," Quaderni Storici, 3 (123), Dicembre 2006 (p. 609-638);
”Everyone Would Be Around the Table: American Family Mealtimes in Historical Perspective,” New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, Vol. 2006, Issue 111 (Spring 2006) (pp. 17-33);
“Glocal Italies: un possibile nuovo percorso per lo studio storico delle comunità italoamericane,” Altreitalie, 32, 2006 (pp. 38-51);
"Leonard Covello, la Collezione Covello e la storia alimentare degli immigrati italiani a New York," Quaderni Storici, 3 (111), Dicembre 2002 (p. 719-746);
“’Sunday Dinner? You Had To Be There!’: Food, Family, and Community Among Italian Immigrants of New York,” The Italian American Review, 8, 2, Autumn/Winter 2001 (p. 11-44);
“National Cuisines and Globalization,” Gastronomic Sciences, 0, 2006 (pp. 44-60);
“Italian Cookbooks: rappresentazioni dell’altro culinario,” Slow, IX, 49, Febbraio 2005 (p. 48-53);
“Tu vuò fà l’italiano,” Slowfood, 1, 2004 (p. 34-39);
“Italian Style,” Slow, VII, 44, Novembre 2003 (p. 44-49);
“America's Italians,” Slow, VI, 31, Luglio 2002 (p. 45-55);
“Da The Godfather a Big Night: il ristorante italoamericano secondo Hollywood,” Il Nuovo Spettatore, 2 (n.s.), 1998 (p. 165-204).
Publications -- Book Chapters
”’I Won’t Be Satisfied Until I’ve Traveled the Entire World’”: The Transnational Imagination of an Italian Immigrant in the United States, 1905-1942,” in M. Vaudagna, E. Vezzosi (eds.), The Place of Europe in American History, 2006 (to be published);
“Una nazione allo specchio: Rocco e i suoi fratelli di Luchino Visconti e la società italiana alla metà del Novecento,” in Narrare la Storia: dal documento al racconto, Milano, Mondadori, 2006 (pp. 435-456);
“’We Ate As A Family’: The Social Significance of Food in Italian Harlem, 1920-1940,” in R. Baritono, A. Lorini, D. Frezza, M. Vaudagna, E. Vezzosi (eds.), Public and Private in Twentieth Century American History, Torino, Otto, 2003 (p. 531-553);
“Immigrazione e consumo alimentare in prospettiva storica: saggio bibliografico,” in Marcella Filippa (a cura di), Il cibo dell’altro: movimenti migratori e culture alimentari nella Torino del Novecento, Roma, Edizioni Lavoro, 2003 (p. 325-352);
“The Taste of Place: Food in the Narratives of ‘America’ and ‘Italy’ by Italian Immigrants of New York, 1920-1950,” in Massimo Bacigalupo, Pierangelo Castagneto (eds.), America and the Mediterranean: Proceedings of the Sixteeneth Biennal AISNA International Conference, Torino, Otto, 2003 (p. 145-154);
“Italian Food Importers and Ethnic Consumption in 1930s New York,” in P. Sensi-Isolani, A. Tamburri (eds.), Italian Americans: A Retrospective on the Twentieth Century, New York, AIHA, 2001 (p. 167-178);
“’Francia, paradiso della pancia’: alimentazione e identità nell’emigrazione dalla Valle Elvo e dalla Serra, 1880-1950” in Segni d’identità, Biella, Ecomuseo della Valle Elvo-Serra, 2005 (pp. 93-118);
“La vita e il mondo mentale di un emigrato di Netro negli Stati Uniti, 1905-1942,” in Segni d’identità, Biella, Ecomuseo della Valle Elvo-Serra, 2005 (pp. 187-212);
“Mille valigie di mille fogge: la memoria dell’emigrazione dalla Valle Elvo e dalla Serra,” in Storie di emigrazione dalla Valle Elvo e dalla Serra, Biella, Ecomuseo della Valle Elvo-Serra, 2005 (pp. 14-24);
“Sala Biellese,” in Storie di emigrazione dalla Valle Elvo e dalla Serra, Biella, Ecomuseo della Valle Elvo-Serra, 2005 (pp. 459-466);
“Camburzano,” in Storie di emigrazione dalla Valle Elvo e dalla Serra, Biella, Ecomuseo della Valle Elvo-Serra, 2005 (pp. 25-30).
Publications -- Reviews
Warren A. Belasco, Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food, Gastronomic Sciences, 1, 2007 [to be published];
Jennifer Guglielmo and Sal Salerno (eds.), Are Italian White?: How Race Is Made in America; Thomas Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945; Stefano Luconi, From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia, Passato e Presente, 3, 2004;
Linda Reeder, Widows in White: Migration and the Transformationof Rural Women, Sicily, 1880-1928, Passato e Presente, 3, 2004;
Hasia R. Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, Journal of American Ethnic History, 2, 2003;
Donna R. Gabaccia, We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans, Altreitalie, 19, 1999;
Franco La Cecla, La pasta e la pizza, L'Indice, 4, Aprile 1999;
Donna R. Gabaccia, Food, Recipes, Cookbooks, and Italian-American Life, Altreitalie, 18, 1999;
Judith M. Taylor, The Olive in California: History of an Immigrant Tree, Italian Americana, 2, 2003;
Kathryn J. Oberdeck, The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914, Italian Americana, 2, 2001;
Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, Dining as a Roman Emperor, Italian Americana, 2, 2000;
Bruno Cartosio, Contadini e operai in rivolta: le Gorras blancas in New Mexico, Il mestiere di storico: annali SISSCO, 5, 2004;
Martino Marazzi, I misteri di Little Italy: storie e testi della letteratura italoamericana, Italian American Review, 1, 2004.
Publications -- Film Reviews
Big Night, in: Altreitalie, 15, 1997;
Gravesend, in: Altreitalie, 16, 1998;
The Second Civil War, in: Altreitalie, 17, 1998;
Fratelli, in: Altreitalie, 17, 1998.
