Faculty
Wingenter, Anne
Assistant Professor
Anne Wingenter is an assistant professor of history and women鈥檚 studies at 黑料门University Chicago鈥檚 John Felice Rome Center. Her research interests include gender and women's history, fascist movements, travel writing, and the politics of history/memory. Publications on these subjects include: 鈥淓ternal City, Sawdust Caesar: Americans on tour in post-WWII Rome (1944-1960)鈥� in Annali d鈥檌talianistica (2010); "Benito Mussolini in Italian High School Textbooks" in Globalisation and Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks (Springer, 2017); 鈥淔rom Soldier鈥檚 Guides to Student Handbooks: Rome as Classroom during the Early Cold War鈥� in A Tale of Two Cities: Florence and Rome from the Grand Tour to Study Abroad (Edisai, 2017); and 鈥淧olitics of Grief: War Widows and Mothers in Interwar Italy鈥� in Veuves, veufs et veuvages en Europe 脿 l鈥櫭﹑oque contemporaine (forthcoming). She is currently working on a project that looks at the city of Rome in the transition between 鈥淗ot鈥� and Cold War.
Education
- PhD, History, 黑料门University Chicago
- MA, History, Indiana University, Bloomington
- BS, International Studies, Spring Hill College, Mobile
Research Interests
- Modern Italian history,
- Gender and women's history
- Ordinary writing
- Politics of history/memory