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	Participant Information Call for Seminar Proposals		The Directors Professor John A. Davis, RAAR'01, and Professor David I. Kertzer, RAAR'00, will be directing the seminar jointly, and both see this as a unique experience to undertake intensive on site study of the exciting new research on Italy in the age of the Risorgimento. The two have worked together in founding and editing the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. Both specialize in the history of Italy in the nineteenth century, and their respective research interests enable them to approach the Risorgimento from different but complementary perspectives. John A. Davis holds the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History where he is Professor of History and Director of European Studies. His major studies are on the economic and social history of southern Italy and on law and order in Italy in the nineteenth century, and his new book (Naples, Napoleon and the Southern Origins of Italian Unification) will be published shortly by Oxford University Press. He is currently writing on the different roles that the South has played in Italian history from the eighteenth century to the present and researching a new project on religion and identity in southern Italy in the 1930s and after the Second World War. Davis has edited numerous collections of essays, including (with Paul Ginsborg) Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento (Cambridge University Press 1991/2002) and Italy in the Nineteenth Century in the seven volume Oxford Short Histories of Italy of which he is general editor. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and for his work on modern Italian history has received the British Academy's Serena Medal and the University of Pisa's Galileo Galilei Prize. In 2000- 2001 he served as a Resident at the American Academy in Rome. David I. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science at Brown University, where he is also professor of anthropology and Italian studies. His Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997, and he has twice received the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best work on Italian history (1985, 1990). His most recent book, The Popes Against The Jews (Knopf, 2001), a look at the Vatican's role in the rise of modern anti-Semitism, has been published in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Brazilian and British editions. A Vintage paperback edition appeared in September, 2002. Kertzer is an authority on Italian politics, society and history; political symbolism; and anthropological demography. He is currently working on a book on the taking of Rome in 1870 and the subsequent battle between the Vatican and the new Italian state. "Edgard Mine," a play based on The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, by Pulitzer and Oscar award winning playwright Alfred Uhry, had its world premier at Hartford Stage in October, 2002. Click here to view Prof. Davis' curriculum vitae Click here to visit Prof. Kertzer's website. Overview Introduction, why in Rome, topics and themes The Directors Background of Professors John Davis, RAAR'01, and David Kertzer, RAAR'00 Organization General operation of seminar, schedule outline Logistics Housing and accommodations, stipends and expenses How to Apply Required materials, downloadable application form, contact information back to top Overview of the Academy | The Rome Prize Other Residency Opportunities | Music at the Academy Summer Programs | The Library | Fototeca | The Humanities Academy Publications | Academy Events | Alumni Apply for the Rome Prize fellowship | Academy Staff | Home