Position

AHA Staff Assistant, 2009–10

Institution

Gustavus Adolphus College

Maddalena Marinari served as AHA staff assistant from 2009–10. She is professor in History; Peace Studies; and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, as well as Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Faculty Associate in the John S. Kendall Center at Gustavus Adolphus College. Marinari teaches a broad range of courses on 20th-century US history, immigration history, American identity, US in the world, and world history. She has published extensively on immigration restriction and immigrant mobilization, including articles published in the Journal of Policy HistoryJournal of Gilded Age and Progressive EraSocial Science History, and Journal of American Ethnic History. She is the author of Unwanted: Italian And Jewish Mobilization Against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882-1965 and, along with Maria Cristina Garcia and Madeline Hsu, a co-editor of A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965. She is the co-editor with Erika Lee of a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of American History on the 100th anniversaries of the passage of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 and co-editor with Maria Cristina Garcia of a second anthology, titled Whose America? US Immigration Policy since 1980 under contract with the University of Illinois Press. The Gustavus faculty recognized her outstanding scholarly record with the 2021 Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award, the college’s highest honor for research.