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Spencer Di Scala

Ph.D., Columbia University

Spencer Di Scala is a full professor and Graduate Program Director in the History Department. Among other works, he has published three books on Italian Socialism, a book on modern Italy that was a selection of the History Book Club and has gone into three editions (a fourth is planned), a history of Europe in the twentieth century: Twentieth Century Europe: Politics, Society, Culture, and a book on European political thought. Three of his books have been translated into foreign languages. He has published over 200 articles in journals, newspapers, and encyclopedias and has given many papers in the United States and abroad. In 1983 he was named Senior Research Fulbright Fellow in Rome and in 1997 Research Professor by the University of Massachusetts Boston. He serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.

Professor Di Scala is the recipient of the national excellence in teaching award for 2007 from the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), of the 2006 outstanding faculty award from the New England Chapter of the UCEA for his innovative pedagogy and teaching, of awards from the Italian government for his scholarship, and of awards for his community outreach.

Areas of Special Interest
Modern Italy, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe, History of Socialism, Online Teaching

Contact Information

Office: McCormack 4-644

Phone: 617-287-6869

E-mail: spencer.discala@umb.edu

Office Hours for Fall 2008

Wednesdays, 2:30-4 and by appointment

Spencer Di Scala 's Current Curriculum Vitae

Spencer Di Scala 's Webpage

Representative Publications
Twentieth Century Europe: Politics, Society Culture (New York: McGraw Hill, 2004)

Italy: From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present, 3rd edition (Boulder: Westview Press, 2004)

Renewing Italian Socialism: Nenni to Craxi (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)