About to start! Calandra Institute

Today's the day! Lauren Braun-Strumfels will discuss her book Partners in Gatekeeping tonight at 6. calandrainstitute.org/events/partner…

So my dentist’s office is also a hidden in plain sight site for Italian-American labor history. Former UAW local in West Trenton represented GM body plant workers for 60 years, until shuttered in 1998. LAWCHA

See you in NYC this Thursday, May 9, at 6 pm Calandra Institute where you”ll hear a transnational history of #Italy “s influence on American #immigration #gatekeeping that moves from #EllisIsland and #Rome to #Arkansas and back. Immigration and Ethnic History Society SHAFR Historians LAWCHA

“I’m from New Jersey, I don’t expect too much/if the world ended tomorrow, I would just adjust” ⁦XPN Morning Show⁩ youtu.be/jaWDWojIYS0?si…

See my latest work in 2025 on how Italian (primarily Sicilian) passage through New Orleans shaped early border controls, with Clara

Historians: Planning a short research trip to Rome? It’s so easy! Go find a letter from 2004 in your basement to get approval in the online system to book a seat that is no longer available 🤣🤣🤣 fold marks and plastic cover is “so 2004”

Book talk alert! In person May 9 in NYC Calandra Institute and May 28 in Rome CentroStudiAmericani

Hitched a ride to the airport on someone’s party bus with my editor Rabea Rittgerodt when we couldn’t find a taxi to save our lives. Only in New Orleans and the perfect conclusion to a fabulous #OAH24

Matching my outfit to my book cover 💯 Rabea Rittgerodt De Gruyter Official

Interested in how broad legal barriers to the freedom to move came to be? Grab your copy of Managing Migration in Italy and the US 👇 at the #OAH24 exhibit hall - look for the green and orange cover!

C-SPAN ready to record our panel #OAH24 Books Through Bars: A New Book Roundtable at 12:45pm CT in Bacchus Room - join us!

Countdown: five minutes to go to my book talk at William and Mary!

Bizarre turn of events becomes #academicflex ? Started with an academic fail …Couldn’t find reports I downloaded in January… but did find source notes I took in April 2006 that are actually useful for my new book! And of course they are in a word doc 👵🏻

Vol. 43, Iss. 2 of Journal of American Ethnic History includes a reading of articles in Progressive Era magazines by Lauren Braun-Strumfels (@cedarcrestcolle) to show how the press tried to remake Italian migrants into citizen farmworkers in the American South. cc: Immigration and Ethnic History Society scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/artic…

🚨New issue! Journal of American Ethnic History 43.2 is out, ft. work by Jorge Ramirez-Lopez (@uclaaisc), Lauren Braun-Strumfels (@cedarcrestcolle), Ron Hayduk (@PoliSciSFSU), Emiliano Aguilar Jr, Matt Hinojosa, Mark Ocegueda, Sarah R. Meiners, John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco, janna elizabeth haider🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 + more. Immigration and Ethnic History Society scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/issue…