2017-2022

Ph.D. in History, University of Notre Dame

Dissertation Project: “Making Democracy Safe for Religion: The Catholic Argument for the ‘Nation Under God’ (1939-1965)”

Committee: John T. McGreevy (Advisor); Kathleen S. Cummings; Darren Dochuk; Richard W. Garnett (Notre Dame Law School); Sarah E. Shortall

2017-2019

M.A. in History, University of Notre Dame

Comprehensive Examination Fields:

Global Approaches to Catholic, US, and World History (Prof. John T. McGreevy)

20^th-Century United States History (Prof. Darren Dochuk)

Law and Religion in US History (Prof. Linda Przybyszewski)

2015-2017

M.A. in History and Civilization, University of Pisa (Italy) Summa cum Laude

Thesis Project: “‘In this Sign shall you conquer!’: Francis J. Spellman’s Military Vicariate and the Mobilization of American Catholics in World War II (1939-1945)”

2012-2015

B.A. in History, University of Pisa (Italy) Summa cum Laude

Thesis Project: “The Catholic Corporative Project in Cold War America: The Case of the Industry Council Plan (1945-1960)”

2012-2017

Licentiate in History and Paleography, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy)

(Five-year education and research fellowship completed in tandem with B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Pisa).

2020

Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) ($12,878)

Finalist for International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Rome Seminar Fellowship, Notre Dame Global Gateway ($3,500)

Peter R. D’Agostino Research Travel Grant, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism ($4,810)

2019

Eisenhower Foundation Research Travel Grant ($975)

Graduate Student Research Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts ($4,537)

2018

Graduate Summer Travel & Research Grant, Nanovic Institute for European Studies ($3,067)

Graduate Student Research Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts ($1,907)

2017

Five-Year Full Tuition and Stipend, University of Notre Dame Department of History

International Travel Grant for Archival Research, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) (€3,300)

2016

International Travel Grant for Archival Research, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) (€3,030)

2014

Summer Language Instruction Grant (German), Fondazione Amici della Scuola Normale (€1,500)

2012

Five-Year Full Tuition and Stipend, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy)

2022

Invited Participant. “The ‘Lay State’ Challenge: New Roman Sources on the Censoring of John Courtney Murray, S.J.” International Symposium on Jesuit Studies “The Jesuits and the Church in History.” Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston. 1-4 August, 2022 (Scheduled).

Invited Participant. “The  Vatican,  US  Catholics,  and  the  Cold  War:  New Perspectives.” Conference “Global  Religion  and  American  World-Making,” University of Notre Dame. April 8-9, 2022 (Scheduled).

Invited Participant. “The Pius XII Archives: New Roman Sources for the History of Global Catholicism.” Conference “Mapping Rome.” University of Notre Dame. March 17-19, 2022 (Scheduled).

Invited Participant. “Culture War(s) Within to Win the Culture War Without.” American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans. 6-8 January, 2022. 

2021

Invited Participant. “The Catholic Debate on the ‘Guilds’ in Cold War America.” European Academy of Religion Annual Conference “Religion and Change,” Münster (Germany). 30 August – 1 September, 2021.

Invited Participant. “Roman Perspectives on the US and American Catholicism (1945-1958): Open Questions and New Sources.” Research Meeting “War and Genocide, Reconstruction and Change: The Global Pontificate of Pius XII.” Co-Sponsored by the Deutsches Historisches Institut and the École Française, Rome (Italy). 14-16 June, 2021.

2020

Canceled due to Covid-19. Invited Participant. “The Holy See and the United States in the Pacelli Era: New Sources, New Perspectives.” Conference “The Holy See and the US in Pius XII’s Archives: The State of the Question and the Archives.” Co-Sponsored by the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (Italy). 5-6 March, 2020.

2018

Selected Participant. “‘In this Sign you shall conquer’: Catholicism and Americanism in the Church’s Mobilization for World War II.” Columbia University Department of Religion Graduate Student Conference “Legitimacy – Mythology – Epistemology: Religion and the Concept of the Political,” New York. April 7, 2018.

Selected Participant. “‘In this Sign you shall conquer’: Catholicism and Americanism in the Church’s Mobilization for World War II.” Texas A&M University Annual Graduate History Conference “Conflicts and Resolutions,” College Station, TX. March 23-24, 2018.

2017

Declined. Selected Participant. “Fighting for the Catholic Soul of America: Dilemmas and Peculiarities of U.S. Catholic Mobilization in World War II.” European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference. Oslo (Norway). September 6-9, 2017.

2021

Invited Speaker. “Roman Arguments for the Nation Under God: The US Catholic Church from Everson Through Engel.” Freedom of Religion Seminar, Notre Dame Law School. October 25, 2021.

2020

Invited Speaker. “Roman Arguments for the Nation Under God:

The US Catholic Church from Everson Through Engel.” Church, State, and Society Colloquium, Notre Dame Law School. February 24, 2020.

2019

Invited Presenter. “Roman Arguments for the Nation Under God: Cardinal Spellman and the US Church from Everson through Engel (1947-1962).” 10th Annual Law and Religion Roundtable. Toronto (Canada). June 20-21, 2019.

2018

Invited Presenter. “‘America Fights for God-Given Rights:’ A Catholic Reading of American Freedoms in World War II.” 9th Annual Law and Religion Roundtable. Philadelphia. June 21-22, 2018.

2020, Spring

Teaching Assistant, “Catholicism Confronts Modernity.” (Prof. Sarah E. Shortall)

Grading, Discussion Facilitation, Office Hours, Online Teaching

Lecturing: - “A Global Church: Decolonization” April 21, 2020 (Online).

                  - “The Church and Fascism” February 20, 2020 (In-Person).

2019, Fall

Teaching Assistant, “History of Global Catholicism.” (Prof. John T. McGreevy)

Grading, Discussion Group Leading, Assignment Co-Designing, Office Hours

2019, Spring

Teaching Assistant, “History of Modern Africa.” (Prof. Paul Ocobock)

Grading, Discussion Group Leading, Office Hours

2018, Fall

Teaching Assistant, “The New American Nation, 1787-1840” (Prof. James M. Lundberg)

Grading, Discussion Facilitation, Office Hours

Lecturing: - “The Problem of American Religion,” November 6-8, 2018.

2021-present

Participant. International Research Project “Occidentes. Horizons and Projects of Civilization in the Church of Pius XII.” Co-Sponsored by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy); Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome (Italy); University of Navarra (Spain); Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon (Portugal). https://occidentes.hypotheses.org

2020-present

Planning Committee Member. Conference “Global Religion and American World-Making.” University of Notre Dame. April 8-9, 2022.

2019

Steering Committee Member. Conference “Global History and Catholicism.” University of Notre Dame. April 4-6, 2019.

2018-2020

Co-Director. Colloquium of Religion and History. University of Notre Dame.

Organizing and leading a weekly workshop attended by faculty, graduate students, and guest presenters working on any topic in religious history.

Native or near-native fluency

Italian, English

Reading comprehension

French, German, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek

Elementary knowledge

Russian