2019 Cali Grant Assigned to Dr. Fiore and Post-BA student Ken Browne

For a second year in a row a summer research grant made possible by the Angelo and Marie Cali Fund for Italian Studies has been assigned to a project led by Dr. Fiore (Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies) with the assistance of Kenneth Browne (post-BA student in the Italian Teaching Certificate program and the University’s Adult Learning Program). Entitled “Food, Hunger, Migration and the American Myth in Sicily at the Time of the WWII Allied Landing,” the project relies on video-interviews with senior Sicilian citizens who have direct memories of that historical moment, and investigates through them food practices, military operations, and human mobility in Sicily before and after 1943 (the year the Allied forces landed in Licata and Gela, the latter being portrayed below).