Wendy Pojmann, Ph.D.

Dr. Wendy Pojmann has been teaching at Siena since 2005. She regularly offers specialized courses in modern European history (e.g. Fascism in Europe, Immigration to Europe, Women in European History), the survey courses the Shaping of the Contemporary World and the West and the World II, and the Proseminar and Capstone courses for majors. In 2009, Dr. Pojmann’s Modern Italy since 1815 course traveled to Rome, Florence and Turin to learn about the Italian Risorgimento and unification. With her colleagues Drs. Mahar and Reeves-Ellington, Dr. Pojmann is now working on a text book that incorporates historical methodology with a step-by-step guide to research and writing.

 

Dr. Pojmann’s research focuses on contemporary European women’s and social movements. Her first book, Immigrant Women and Feminism in Italy (Ashgate 2006; Aracne Editrice 2010), examined the impact of recent migrations of non-European women on the Italian women’s movement. Her edited volume Migration and Activism in Europe Since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) looked at the roles of migrant activists in labor, feminist, student, and anti-racist movements throughout continental Europe. Dr. Pojmann is currently completing a monograph about Italian women and international Cold War politics and an edited volume that focuses on migrant women’s creativity and constraints in the countries of the Mediterranean. She has been awarded grants from the American Historical Association and the Cesare Barbieri Foundation.      

 

Other scholarship:

 

“For Mothers, Peace and Family: International (Non)-Cooperation among Italian Catholic and Communist Women’s Organisations during the Early Cold War,” Gender & History 23, no. 2 (August 2011): 415–429.

 

“Mothering Across Boundaries: Immigrant Domestic Workers and Gender Roles in Italy,” in Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World, pp. 127-139, eds. Loretta Baldassar and Donna Gabaccia. Fordham University Press, 2011.

 

“Muslim Women’s Organizing in France and Italy: Political Culture, Activism, and Performativity in the Public Sphere,” Feminist Formations [formerly the NWSA Journal ] 22, no. 3 (December 2010): 229-251.

 

“Adopt a Domestic Worker?: The Response of Immigrant Associations to the Centre-Right,” in Resisting the Tide: Cultures of Opposition in the Berlusconi Years, pp. 177-189, eds. Daniele Albertazzi, Clodagh Brook, Charlotte Ross, Nina Rothenberg. Continuum Books, 2009.

 

“Join Us in Rebuilding Italy: Women's Associations 1946-1963,” Journal of Women’s History 20, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 82-104.