Patrick Cavaliere

Dr. Patrick Anthony Cavaliere holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford where he completed his studies as a Commonwealth Doctoral Fellow in Modern European History and Law at Oriel College under the direction of Denis Mack Smith of All Souls College. He has held positions at the University of Bologna, Yale University, the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School, the University of New Brunswick, and has worked for several years as both special assistant to the President of the Italian Constitutional Court and political attaché to the Italian Minister of European Affairs in Rome, Italy. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Modern European History and Historical Methodology at Laurentian University, Dr. Cavaliere also teaches at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ where he is Adjunct Professor of History with the Department of Languages for Public Policy in the Faculty of Political Sciences. At the University of Rome Dr. Cavaliere is involved specifically with the graduate program in linguistic and cultural mediation where he teaches courses on rhetoric, power, politics and translation in historical perspective. Dr. Cavaliere has published extensively in the field of Italian Fascist criminal justice, and has received numerous awards and fellowships for his contributions. Forthcoming with ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome Press is an Italian monograph entitled La fucilazione di Michele Della Maggiora: Storia del primo processo capitale dell’era fascista, which chronicles the introduction of the death penalty in Fascist Italy and the application of the first death sentience in a trial held before the Fascist Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State. Dr. Cavaliere was also recently commissioned by Englishes: Letterature Inglesi Contemporanee, a leading European journal of contemporary English literature published by the University of Rome, to write a series of articles on the representation of the European fascist experience in English and American literature. A study on Thomas Wolfe appeared in the journal in 2007, and scheduled for publication are works on Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and Virginia Woolf. A long-term research and publication initiative, funded by the internationally renowned Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, is entitled Antisemitism in Fascist Italy: From the Rise of Fascism to the Racial Laws of 1938 and the Politics of the Final Solution. Dr. Cavaliere is currently an elected member of the Laurentian University Senate and a member of the Laurentian University Board of Governors.

SELECTED MOST RECENT SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Books In Print

· Il diritto penale politico dallo Stato liberale allo Stato totalitario: Storia delle ideologie penalistiche tra istituzioni e interpretazioni

· Storia del Tribunale Speciale per la Difesa dello Stato: Alessandro Pertini davanti al Tribunale Speciale,

Volume II, CNR/Roma 2003, XI, 142 pp.

· Storia del Tribunale Speciale per la Difesa dello Stato: Il «processone» del 1928: Il PCI davanti al Tribunale Speciale, Volume I, CNR/Roma 2002, X, 207 pp.

Scholarly Articles and Papers

· “La magistratura italiana e gli anarchici alla fine dell¹ottocento: tra delitto politico e associazione a delinquere,” in Zapruder: Storia in movimento, forthcoming in n. 20, settembre-dicembre, (2009).

· “Thomas Wolfe’s ‘I Have a Thing To Tell You’: The Story of a Novella,” in Englishes: Letterature Inglesi Contemporanee, anno XI, n. 32, (2007), p. 1-47.

· “Gabriele D’Annunzio: The Poet of Political Eroticism,” in Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators, Frank J. Coppa, (ed.), (Peter Lang: New York, 2006).

· “History, Enriched Lectures, and Pedagogy,” Academic Exchange Quarterly, Summer, (2005), Issue 2, vol. 9, 27.

· “Socratic Method, Multimedia Courseware and History: The Case of Mussolini Illustrato,” The Journal of the Association of History and Computing, Spring, (2005), Number 1, vol. VIII.

· “Contemporary Italian Cinema and Fascism: History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci,” Revue de recherche interdisciplinaire en textes et médias, Numéro 4, Printemps (2004), 1

Professional Academic Conference Papers:

· "Re-Visioning the Cult of Personality in Fascist Italy: Photographic Portraiture, Film, and the Myths of Mussolini," A Distinguished Guest Lecture for the International Conference on War and Peace, Barbarism and Civilization in Modern Europe and its Empires, the Australasian Association for Modern History (AAEH), July 11-14, 2011, Perth, Australia.

· “Benito Mussolini and the Politics of Myth-Making Fascist Italy: Translating the ‘Life’ of a Dictator Through Photographs and Film of the LUCE Institute” 23-25 June 2008, Conference of the International Auto/Biographical Association, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

· “Architecture, Culture and Spectacle in Fascist Italy: The Politics of Symbolic Space,” 12 February 2008, Department of History, Faculty of Political Sciences, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’.

· “Benito Mussolini as the ‘High Priest’ of a New Secular Religion: Re-Visioning The Cult of Personality Through Photographs and Films of the LUCE Institute,” ‘Between Fantasy and Reality: Image, Representation, and History’, The American Historical Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 5-7 August 2007.

· “The Aksum Obelisk and the Collection of Sacred Art in Fascist Italy,” ‘Sacred Possessions and Collecting Religious Art in Italy, 1500-1900’, International Conference organized by the Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max Planck Institute for Art History and the Getty Research Institute, to be held at the American Academy in Rome, 19-21 June 2007.

· “Monumental Architecture in Fascist Italy: A Reconstruction Through Photographic Portraiture and Film of the LUCE Institute,” Keynote Address to open the International Conference ‘Polis and Politics: Italian Urbanism under Fascism’, held by the Graduate School of Art and Architecture at Columbia University and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, New York City, USA, 27-29 April 2007.

· “The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy: Photographic Portraiture, Iconography and Film,” Tri-University History Conference, University of Guelph, 18 October 2006.

· “Race, Imperialism, and Empire in Fascist Italy: The Jewish Question Revisited,” ‘Globalization, Empire, and Imperialism in Historical Perspective’, The Historical Society Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 1-4 June 2006.

· “Magistratura e Milizia Durante la Crisi Matteotti,” ‘Delitto e Processo Matteotti: Quadro Storico, Ordinamento Giuridico e Sistema Elettorale’, Italian Historical Association International Conference, Chieti, Italy, 16-18 April 2006.

Dr. Patrick Cavaliere, Associate Professor of History

B.A. Spec. Hons., M.A. (York), D.Phil (Oxon)

Associate Professor of History

Department of History

Laurentian University, Canada

e-mail: pcavaliere@laurentian.ca

and

Adjunct Professor of History

Department of Languages for Public Policy

Faculty of Political Sciences

University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’, Italy

e-mail: patrick.cavaliere@uniroma1.it

Image Copyright: Archivio Storico LUCE / Rome Italy

SPECIALIZED INTERESTS

· Italian Fascism

· Totalitarian Criminal Justice

· Monumental Fascist Architecture

· Antisemitism and Racial Policy in Fascist Italy

· Photography, Iconography and Film in Fascist Political Propaganda

· Language Mediation and Translation in Historical Perspective

· Historiographical Methodology

· Pedagogical Theory, Distance Education, Courseware Design

COURSES TAUGHT

· HIST 1207 Western Civilization: French Revolution to World War II

· HIST 2206 Europe in the Early Industrial Era

· HIST 2207 Europe in the Late Industrial Era

· HIST 2286 Intellectual History of the Modern World Since 1850

· HIST 2306 European History to World War II

· HIST 2307 European History Since World War II

· HIST 2847 Fascism on Film

· HIST 2865 Propaganda, Politics and Film

· HIST 4765 Totalitarianism in 20^th Century Europe

· HIST 5066 Historical Methods

· HIST 5557 Topics in European History

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Dr. Patrick Anthony Cavaliere holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford where he completed his studies as a Commonwealth Doctoral Fellow in Modern European History and Law at Oriel College under the direction of Denis Mack Smith of All Souls College. He has held positions at the University of Bologna, Yale University, the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School, the University of New Brunswick, and has worked for several years as both special assistant to the President of the Italian Constitutional Court and political attaché to the Italian Minister of European Affairs in Rome, Italy. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Modern European History and Historical Methodology at Laurentian University, Dr. Cavaliere also teaches at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ where he is Adjunct Professor of History with the Department of Languages for Public Policy in the Faculty of Political Sciences. At the University of Rome Dr. Cavaliere is involved specifically with the graduate program in linguistic and cultural mediation where he teaches courses on rhetoric, power, politics and translation in historical perspective. Dr. Cavaliere has published extensively in the field of Italian Fascist criminal justice, and has received numerous awards and fellowships for his contributions. Most recently he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Professorship from the University LUISS Guido-Carli in Rome in recognition of the high levels of originality and dedication in his intellectual and scholarly work on Italian history. During the Fall Term of 2008 Dr. Cavaliere occupied the Chair of International Studies at LUISS Guido-Carli. Scheduled for publication in 2009 by ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome Press is an Italian monograph entitled La fucilazione di Michele Della Maggiora: Storia del primo processo capitale dell’era fascista, which chronicles the introduction of the death penalty in Fascist Italy and the application of the first death sentience in a trial held before the Fascist Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State. Dr. Cavaliere was also recently commissioned by Englishes: Letterature Inglesi Contemporanee, a leading European journal of contemporary English literature published by the University of Rome, to write a series of articles on the representation of the European fascist experience in English and American literature. A study on Thomas Wolfe appeared in the journal in 2007, and in preparation are works on Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound. A long-term research and publication initiative, funded by and under contract to the internationally renowned Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, is entitled Antisemitism in Fascist Italy: From the Rise of Fascism to the Racial Laws of 1938 and the Politics of the Final Solution.