Tune in to CSPAN 2 today, June 16, at 4:30pm EST! Premiere airing of an intense, at times emotional, and meaningful discussion of our UGA Press anthology, Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement.

It’s happening y’all!!! Watch me cry when talking about prison teaching on C-SPAN 2 right now

Made my CSPAN debut yesterday, met Julianne Moore today, who knows what tomorrow will bring y’all

Miracles do happen: I’m the first researcher in the library today (because I rode the bus? One might say yes)

Stopped by UNC Press offices yesterday on my way to Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill where I am researching for my next book. Fun to see where the magic happens &chat about plans for my project. Feeling good: 200 pages drafted already&found some incredible sources here 🙏 to Wilson Fellowship

Notice of land sale to C.E. Larenzini, St. Helena colony, Pender County, N.C. Cancelled August 3, 1909. I’m reconstructing the neighborhood of the St. Helena Italian farm experiment one card at a time today Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill

Seen in the wild! Love knowing scholars of political science are finding their way to my book. And spending valuable summertime hours with it! Let me know what you think Angie Bautista-Chavez

There’s nothing like visiting your spouse’s workplace to remind you that your office sucks so badly

Recorded ItalianAmerican today on my book Partners in Gatekeeping UGA Press . Great convo on migration, class, how I came to do this work as a non-Italian & why the records of diplomats in the US are so damn exciting and revealing. it is truly the NPR of Italian Americana 🇮🇹 🎙️

Thoughts?

How the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and the Immigration Act of 1924 Collided

50% off until August 31 with code DGBSS24! Managing Migration in Italy and the United States - Read on degruyter.com/document/doi/1… De Gruyter Brill

I have a very cool chapter in this book about how fears of Italian organized crime and anarchism helped catalyze international collaboration in policing and punitive immigration management.

So. In the new #Beetlejuice Grown-up Lydia Deetz drives the same car as me (we’re talking exact make, model, and color); and also lip-syncs Donna Summer like me; and I got very excited at that random Italian sequence; so I ask when did Tim Burton see into my soul

listen, who among us has not become our most unhinged self in Philadelphia

Top story in today’s La Repubblica, just beneath tennis coverage

Big 📖 news! #ugapress Cedar Crest College Immigration and Ethnic History Society