Associate Professor
Department of History

Elizabeth Zanoni

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Ph.D. in History, University of Minnesota, (2011)

M.A. in History, Western Michigan University, (2005)

B.A. in American Studies, University of Notre Dame, (2001)

Articles

Zanoni, E. (2017). Thinking Big about Mobile People. Journal of American Ethnic History.
Zanoni, E. and Gabaccia, D. (2012). Transitions in Gender Ratios among International Migrants, 1820-1930. Social Science History 36 (2) , pp. 197-221.
Zanoni, E. (2012). Per Voi, Signore’: Gendered Representations of Fashion, Food, and Fascism in Il Progresso. Journal of American Ethnic History 31 (3) , pp. 33-71.
Zanoni, E. (2010). Returning Home in the Imaginary: Advertisements and Consumption in the early Twentieth Century Italian-American Press. Voices in Italian Americana, Special Issue: Consumption and Italian American History 21 (1) , pp. 56-72.
Zanoni, E. and Borish, L. J. (2006). Detroit Jewish Women in Physical Sports During the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century. Michigan Jewish History 16 , pp. 28-40.

Books

Zanoni, E. (2018). Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America. University of Illinois Press.

Book Chapters

Zanoni, E. (2017). ‘A Wife in Waiting’: Women and the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act in "Il Progresso Italo-Americano" Advice Columns New Italian Migrants to the United States (pp. 80-104) Urbana: University of Illinois.
Zanoni, E. (2016). Food and Immigration The Routledge History of American Foodways (pp. 279-292) New York: Routledge.
Zanoni, E. (2014). ‘In Italy everyone enjoys it. Why not in America?’: Italian Americans and Consumption in Transnational Perspective during the early Twentieth Century Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities (pp. 71-82) New York: Fordham University Press.

Presentations

Zanoni, E. (September , 2012). Creating and Sustaining ‘Ethnic Consumer Enclaves’ among New York’s Italian Immigrant Community, 1880-1920 Immigration & Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Conference College Park, MD.
Zanoni, E. (April , 2012). Researching Capitalism and Democracy in the American Global Twentieth Century Organization of American Historians Milwaukee, WI.
Zanoni, E. (November , 2011). Creating ‘Immigrant Markets’ in the Americas: Advertisements for U.S. Consumer Goods in the Italian-immigrant Press in Argentina during the 1920s and 1930s Social Science History Association Boston, Massachusetts.
Zanoni, E. (August , 2011). Europe-Migration-Identity Summer Seminar Minneapolis, MN.
Zanoni, E. (March , 2011). Managing Trade from the Diasporas: Italian People and Products in the U.S. and Argentina During the Age of Mass Migration, 1880-1940 The History of American Capitalism, Graduate Student Conference Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Zanoni, E. (November , 2010). Gender and Migration: Bridging Three Decades of Change Social Science History Association Chicago, Illinois.
Zanoni, E. and Gabaccia, D. (November , 2010). It’s Just Not Normal: Global Perspectives on the Gender Dynamics of International Migration in the 19th Century Social Science History Association Long Beach, California.
Zanoni, E. (April , 2009). Italian Merchants and Consumption during the Age of Mass Italian Migration ,” The Land of our Return: Diasporic Encounters with Italy John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY, Manhattan.
Zanoni, E. (October , 2008). Geographies of Consumption and Migration: Commercial and Migratory Links between Italy and the Americas at the Turn of the Century Social Science History Association Miami, FL.
Zanoni, E. (June , 2008). ‘In the Guise of Immigrants’: Anna Herkner, Immigration Policy, and the Gendering of the Transatlantic Voyage During the Progressive Era Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Minneapolis, MN.
Zanoni, E. (November , 2007). Italian-American women of Il Progresso-Italo Americano American Italian Historical Association Denver, CO.
Zanoni, E. (November , 2007). ‘Per Voi, Signore’: Fashion, Food, and Gendered Representation of Consumption in the 1930s Italian-American Press Social Science History Association Chicago, IL.
Zanoni, E. (May , 2005). American Women’s Sporting Attire, Consumer Culture, and Material Culture in the 1920s North American Society for Sport History Green Bay, Wisconsin.
  • 2015: Winner of the 2015 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
  • 2012: Summer Research Fellowship Program Grant, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University
  • 2010: Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of Minnesota
  • 2010: Research Fellowship, History Department, University of Minnesota
  • 2009: Graduate School Research Grant, The Graduate School, University of Minnesota
  • 2009: Hella Mears Graduate Fellowship for German and European Studies, Center for German & European Studies, University of Minneota
  • 2008: Rockefeller Graduate Student Travel Award, Social Science History Association
  • 2007: UNICO National Graduate Fellowship in Italian American Studies, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
  • 2006: James W. Nelson Graduate Fellowship in Immigration Studies, Immigrations History Research Center, University of Minnesota
  • 2005: Award for Outstanding Research at the M.A. Level, Department of History, Western Michigan University
  • 2005: Graduate College Research and Travel Grant, Western Michigan University
  • 2005: Roberta J. Park Graduate Student Award, North American Society for Sport History