Marcella Bencivenni

A native Italian, Marcella Bencivenni is Professor of History at Hostos Community College of The City University of New York (CUNY), where she has been teaching since 2004. Her research focuses on the histories of immigration, labor, and social movements in the modern United States, with a particular interest in the Italian diaspora. Besides her book, Italian Immigrant Radical Culture (NYU Press, 2011, repr. 2014), she has written numerous articles about American radicalism, immigration and Italian American history, and has co-edited with Ron Hayduk Radical Perspectives on Immigration (2008) for the journal Socialism and Democracy.