The Society for Italian Historical Studies, in affiliation with the American Historical Association, regularly administers three annual Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prizes in Italian History.
The late Howard R. Marraro made bequests to the American Historical Association, the American Catholic Historical Association, and the Society for Italian Historical studies, for the award by each society of a Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History. Each association has appointed its own selection committee. The amount of the annual award to be made by the SIHS is $750.00.
Each award will be given for the book deemed best by the various committees and published during the previous calendar year, which treats of Italian history in any epoch, Italian cultural history, or Italian-American relations. Entries must be published in English by historians whose usual residence is in North America.
The Marraro Prize is administered via the American Historical Association; to submit an entry, please consult the instructions at http://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-prizes/helen-and-howard-r-marraro-prize.
For further information, please contact SIHS Executive Secretary James Palmer.
This Year’s Recipient
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascism, the War, and Structures of Feeling in Italy, 1943-1945: Tales in Chiaroscuro, (Oxford University Press, 2023)
From the Award Committee: In Fascism, the War and Structures of Feeling in Italy, 1943-1945: Tales in Chiaroscuro (Oxford University Press), Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi examines the lived experience of the dramatic two years that witnessed the deposal of Mussolini, the dictator’s rescue by the Nazis and installation at Salò, and the civil war/occupation of Central and Northern Italy. Drawing upon largely unpublished and hitherto largely unexamined diaries (many of them contained at the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale), Falasca-Zamponi offers a rare and valuable look at “living in time” amidst these years of emergency and rupture. Falasca-Zamponi questions many of the seeming verities about this tumultuous moment in Italian history. Her incisive and compelling analysis offers new frameworks for understanding the complex issue of Italian forgetting and memorialization of fascism and the Second World War.
Past Recipients
2022
Franco Baldasso
Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy
(Fordham University Press, 2022)
2022
Brenda Deen Schildgen
Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2021)
2021
Pamela Ballinger
The World Refugees Made Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy
(Cornell University Press, 2020)
2020
Sharon T. Strocchia
Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy
(Harvard University Press, 2019)
2019
Konstantina Zanou
Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
2018
Unn Falkeid,
The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena
(Harvard University Press, 2017)
2017
Sarah Ross,
Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice
(Harvard University Press, 2016)
2015
Stephanie Zeier Pilat
Reconstructing Italy: The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era
(Ashgate, 2014)
2011
Heather Hyde Minor
The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome
(The Pennsylvania University Press, 2010)
2007
Stefanie B. Siegmund
The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence
(Stanford University Press, 2004)
2001
Jutta Sperling
Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)
1997
Nicholas Terpstra
Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
1991
David I. Kertzer & Dennis P. Hogan
Family, Political Economy and Demographic Change
(University of Wisconsin Press, 1989)