@josephsciorra
ethnographer folklorist cultural historian: material culture*italian diaspora*religious studies. presepe builder. director of Academic & Cultural Programs at Calandra Institute, a CUNY-wide research institute
The $1,000 fellowship is for graduate students who are writing their dissertation on any topic involving Italian emigrant and/or Italian ethnic labor and/or working-class life either in the United States or in the wider Italian diaspora.
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Alberto Grandi debunking Italian food myths. “Italian cuisine did not migrate. It was invented abroad by people who had finally found something to eat.”
"Nearly a century later, it’s astonishing to see “a person whose grandfather was an immigrant engaging in such abhorrent and violent treatment of contemporary migrants,” Joseph Sciorra — the director of academic programs at the Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY — said of Bovino.
such a petty lowlife
More news about the book ‘Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move’ with my article “The Visual Culture of Italian Migrant Return: Snapshots at the Crossroads of Home Visits and Touristic Itineraries”
Two talks! See you in Madison.
I co-edited this special issue of the ‘Italian American Review’ on the topic of periodicals in the Italian diaspora
What a treat gathering with contributors to present my article “The Visual Culture of Italian Migrant Return: Snapshots at the Crossroads of Home Visits and Touristic Itineraries” in this exciting new book
Cool 3D rendering of an exhibit I co-curated!
Resisting Italian American identity and politics as racist and xenophobic.
Italian Americans for Zohran www.instagram.com/italiansforz...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
My chapter in ‘Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move’ (out this month with @nyupress.bsky.social) looks at family photos and the #visualculture of Italian migrant home visits.
@kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social
Daffy Duchamp
i hear you. i have over 400 followers and hardly a LIKE to posts. hard to to get traction
I’m excited to have an article in this collection about photos of Italian migrant home visits.
indeed
seems like a trend, similar to what happened in Chicago www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Call for Papers for the Institute's 2026 annual conference on the theme of "Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and across Italian Mobilities." DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: SEPTEMBER 15th.
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May 1 the exhibit @josephsciorra.bsky.social & I curated opens: CREATIVITY AND WORLD WAR II ITALIAN POWS IN THE UNITED STATES
I was happy to be in NYC to celebrate it w/colleagues, friends, former students and a curators-selfie!
pics/info @calandrainstitute.bsky.social
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A broadcast of the @radiopopolare.bsky.social program "Sacca di diavolo" on the subject of European #Easter #folkmusic with hosts Giancarlo Nostrini and Marco ??, April 18, 1992. youtu.be/-BlWJllhrp0?...
a rotten shame
Our exhibit, opening May 1st, “Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States,” curated by Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra, and designed by Polly Franchini, is coming together. @laura-e-ruberto.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social
Martin Wong, the “Cosimo de’ Medici of the aerosol set.” His collection is highlighted in “Above Ground,” an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, until August 10th
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/a...
Congrats! Looking forward to reading it
New Yorker cartoon.
I’m sorry to read of Lou Nasti’s passing. I interviewed him in 2006 for my chapter on Christmas house displays for my book ‘Built with Faith’ (2015). He made Dyker Heights, Bklyn, the mecca of holiday lights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/n...
The next time you see me, I'll be handing you one of these: bookmarks for our edited volume on unauthorized European migrations to the United States (forthcoming May 2025) @dbattisti.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social
My research informs the new podcast “La Grande Famiglia” about a US radio program that recorded the voices of Italian relatives and aired them.
www.raiplaysound.it/programmi/la...