Maura Hametz

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Ph.D. in History, Brandeis University, (1995)

B.A. in History, Colgate University, (1986)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Hametz, M. E. "Cesare Barbieri Grant . Other. 2014 - 2015
Madhavan, P., Tam, L., Tomovic, C. and Hametz, M. E. "Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative. Old Dominion University. 2011 - 2011
Hametz, M. E. "Fellowship for Advanced Research. 1999 - 2000
Hametz, M. E. "Research Fellowship. Federal. 1999 - 2000

Expertise

History
Modern Europe - 19th and 20th Centuries / Italy / Habsburg Central Europe/ European Fascism/ Empires/Jewish History / Mediterranean

Research Interests

Europe - 19th and 20th centuriesCentral Europe, Italy, Habsburg EmpireJewish History, Women's HistoryFascism

Articles

Hametz, M. E. (2018). The Triestine Citizenship Commission: Documents on Statelessness in the Wake of War.
Hametz, M. E. (2014). Presnitz in the piazza: The Taste of Nostalgia in Trieste. Journal of Austrian Studies 47 (2) , pp. 131-154.
Hametz, M. E. (2014). Re-placing Venice in the Adriatic: Tourism and Italian Irredentism, 1890-1930. Journal of Tourism History 6 (2/3) , pp. 107-121.
Hametz, M. E. (2013). Uncertain States: Citizenship in the Northeastern Adriatic, 1918-1921. Acta Histriae 21 (4) , pp. 791-808.
Hametz, M. E. (2012). The interstices of life and memory: Alma Morpurgo and the Central European Jewish tradition. Edwin Mellen Press , pp. 349-374.
Hametz, M. E. (2010). Naming Italians in the Borderland, 1926 – 1943. Journal of Modern Italian Studies 15 (3) , pp. 410-30.
Hametz, M. E. (2007). Foreigners in their own city: Italian fascism and the dispersal of Trieste’s port Jews. Jewish Culture and History 19 (2-3) , pp. 17-32.
Hametz, M. E. (2007). Zionism, Emigration, and Anti-Semitism in Trieste: Central Europe’s ‘Gateway to Zion’, 1896-1943. Jewish Social Studies 13 (3) , pp. 103-34.
Hametz, M. E. (2006). Envisioning the Italian Mediterranean: Fascist Policy in Steamship Publicity, 1922-1942. Journal of Mediterranean Studies 16 (1) , pp. 175-86.
Hametz, M. E. (2004). The Nefarious Former Authorities: Name Change in Trieste, 1918-1922. Austrian History Yearbook 35 , pp. 233-52.
Hametz, M. E. (2002). The Ambivalence of Italian Anti-Semitism: Fascism, Nationalism and Racism in Trieste. Holocaust and Genocide Studies 16 (3) , pp. 376-401.
Hametz, M. E. (2002). ‘To have what was mine’: Reclaiming Surnames in Trieste. Names 50 (1) , pp. 3-22.
Hametz, M. E. (2001). The Carabinieri Stood By: The Italian State and the ‘Slavic threat’ in Trieste, 1919-1922. Nationalities Papers 29 (4) , pp. 559-73.
Hametz, M. E. (2000). On the periphery/At the frontier: The Triestines in the Northeastern Borderland. Journal of Modern Italian Studies 5 (3) , pp. 277-93.
Hametz, M. E. (2000). ‘Uno spiraglio di libero commercio’ dopo la redenzione: Le Fiere Campionarie Internazionali, 1919-1924. Metodi e Ricerche: Rivista di studi giuliani 20 (1) , pp. 181-206.
Hametz, M. E. (1998). Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Italian Foreign Policy: Local Identity as a Centripetal Force. Italian Politics and Society: Review of the Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society 49 , pp. 63-70.

Book Chapters

Hametz, M. E. and Klabjan, B. (2018). Finding a Home for Sissi in Trieste Sissi's World: The Myth and Memory of the Habsburg Empress Elizabeth New York: Bloomsbury.
Hametz, M. E. (2017). Borders The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy: Outside the State? (pp. 151-178) New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hametz, M. E. (2016). Harvard man, American dough boy, Mississippi Jew: the papers of Samuel (Sam) Leyens Switzer in Virginia Jewish Migration and the Archive (pp. 124-140) London: Routledge.
Hametz, M. E. (2015). Giuseppina Martinuzzi Shaking the Empire, Shaking Patriarchy: The Growth of a Feminist Consciousness in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (pp. 236-242) Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press.
Hametz, M. E. (2015). Italian Feminism in the Adriatic Regions in Shaking the Empire, Shaking Patriarchy: The Growth of a Feminist Consciousness in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (pp. 95-102) Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press.
Hametz, M. E. (2013). "Leben im Blut" in der schönen Stadt: Juden und Nationalsozialisten in Triest 1943–1945 Leben im Blut“ in der schönen Stadt: Juden und Nationalsozialisten in Triest 1943–1945,” in Alltag im Holocaust. Jüdisches Leben im Großdeutschen Reich 1941-1945 (pp. 217-236) Munich: Oldenbourg.
Hametz, M. E. (2009). Foreigners in their own city: Italian fascism and the dispersal of Trieste’s port Jews Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory Zakor v’Makor (pp. 15-28) London: Vallentine Mitchell.
Hametz, M. E. (2007). In the Name of an Italian Widow: Nationalism, Patriotism, and Gender in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy Human Traditions in Modern Europe (pp. 123-37) Rowman and Littlefield.
Hametz, M. E. (2006). The Ambivalence of Italian Anti-Semitism: Fascism, Nationalism and Racism in Trieste Fascism (pp. 209-34) The International Library of Essays in Political History. Ashgate.
Hametz, M. E. (2005). Just another ‘other’?: Jewish writers in Cosmopolitan Trieste Chasing Esther (pp. 167-79) Santa Monica: Kol Katan.
Hametz, M. E. (2002). Di razza ebraica: Fascist Name Legislation and the Designation of Jews in Trieste The Most Ancient of Minorities: Jews in Italy (pp. 217-29) Westport: Greenwood Press.

Conference Proceeding

Hametz, M. E. (2012). Steaming across Mussolini’s ‘Roman Lake’ (pp. 143-154) Messina-Taormina, Italy: Proceedings of Making Waves in the Mediterranean 2nd Mediterranean Maritime History Network (MMHN) Conference.
  • 2014: Senior Scholar Lecturer, College of Arts and Letters
  • 2013: Charles E. Smith Award -- Best Monograph in European History, European History Section of the Southern Historical Association
  • 2012: Robert L. Stern Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Arts and Letters
  • 2009: Outstanding Contributions to Interdisciplinarity Award, College of Arts and Letters
  • 2007: Elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society (London)
  • 2007: Dean's Award for Outstanding Service, College of Arts and Letters