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.