RHIANNON EVANGELISTA
CURRICULUM VITAE
CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: Department of History and Philosophy, 402 Bartow Ave, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144
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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, USA2006
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
EMPLOYMENT
Limited Term Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University, USA 2014-Present
Course: HIST 1110 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
Saint John Campus Silver Anniversary Prize 2003
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
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
Twenty-First International Conference of Europeanists, Washington, DC 2014
Paper: “Old Fascism in New Clothes? Fascist Critique of the Postwar Italian
Republic, 1953-1959.” Panel: “Legacies of Displacement and Postwar
Community-Rebuilding.”
Chair and Discussant for panel: “Tactics of Legitimacy in Transitional States.”
Nineteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Boston, MA 2012
“(Re)Writing Fascism: Ex-Fascist Memoirs, the Popular Press and the
Construction of the Dictatorial Past in Democratic Italy, 1945-1960.”
13th Annual University of New Brunswick / University of Maine 2011
International Graduate Student Conference in Fredericton, NB, Canada
“(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
Golden Key International Honors Society 2004-Present
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Italian, some reading and speaking knowledge of German, reading knowledge of French.
REFERENCES
Supplied upon request.