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- cascal@iu.edu
Caterina Scalvedi is a historian of modern Europe and its global entanglements with a specialization in empire, fascism, and education. Caterina received her PhD in History from the University of Illinois Chicago (2023) and worked as Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University (2023-24). In Fall 2024, she is using a Ragusa Foundation's research grant to complete her first book manuscript Subjects of Empire: Educational Difference in Italian Colonialism (1880s-1950s). Combining official and grounded perspectives, the book retraces the circulation of pedagogies between Italy, its colonies, and other European empires to reveal crucial yet still underexplored connections between national and colonial, and between liberal and fascist educational regimes and political projects in modern Europe. In Spring 2025, Caterina will also teach two sections of the course "University and Knowledge Production" at IUB's Hutton Honors College. Her research interests include the social and intellectual history of education in colonial contexts, Catholic/Protestant missions, the intertwined processes of nation and empire building, and the transition from colonial to postcolonial, and from democratic to authoritarian regimes (and vice versa).
Contact Dr. Scalvedi at cascal@iu.edu