 Simone Cinotto
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Biography
Simone Cinotto is a research professor in American History and teaches as a UNISG Researcher in Contemporary History at the Pollenzo and Colorno campuses. He is also the Director of the master programs in Food Culture and Communications and Italian Gastronomy and Tourism at Colorno, and teaches American History at the University of Torino and Italian-American Studies at New York University.
Professor Cinotto has been Visiting Professor of Italian-American Studies at the Department of Italian Studies at New York University (2008), Visiting Scholar in the History Department at Columbia University (2007, 2000, 1998), Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University (2004), Visiting Fellow of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University (2000), and Resident Fellow of The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and of the Pennsylvania Historical Society in Philadelphia (2009, 2000, 1998).
Previously, he was coordinator of national and European research on the production, consumption and culturalization of specialty products, the social history of rice, and Piedmont emigration. As a member of the Interuniversity Center for American and Euro-American Studies, he participated in a number of international research teams and in the organization of international conferences on transatlantic relations in Italy and the United States, in cooperation with, among others, Columbia University in New York City.
He is the author of many books and essays, including Una famiglia che mangia insieme: cibo ed etnicità nella comunità italoamericana di New York, 1920-1940 (A Family That Eats Together: Food and Ethnicity in the Italian American Community of New York City, 1920-1940) (2001) and Terra soffice uva nera: viticoltori piemontesi in California prima e dopo il Proibizionismo (Soft Soil Black Grape: Labor, Social Capital, and Race in the Experience of Italian Winemakers in California).
His article “Leonard Covello, the Covello Papers, and the Eating Habits of Italian Immigrants in New York” won the 2004 David Thelen Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians for the best article on American history published in a language other than English, and was published in The Journal of American History.
Professor Cinotto’s research interests include:
- Migration (identity, transnationalism, diaspora, globalization, representation, consumption, and popular culture, specializing in Italian immigration to the United States)
- Consumption (history and anthropology of consumption and popular culture)
- Food Studies (food history and anthropology, specializing in the relations between food, place, and identity)
Contacts
Simone Cinotto
University of Gastronomic Sciences | Pollenzo Campus
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 9
fraz. Pollenzo - 12042 Bra (Cn)
Phone: +39 0172 458511
Fax: +39 0172 458500
Email: s.cinotto@unisg.it
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