University of Minnesota
Department of History
history@umn.edu
612-624-2800


Department of History's home page.

Home > People > Faculty : Donna Gabaccia

Donna Gabaccia

Department of History 1116 HellerH
Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • International migration studies
  • United States immigration and labor history
  • Comparative women and gender
  • Food studies
  • World history

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1979.
  • Master's of Arts: University of Michigan, 1975.
  • Bachelor's of Arts with Distinction: Mount Holyoke College, 1971.

Publications

  • Immigrant Lives in the US: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives. Gabaccia, Donna, Leach, C., Routledge, 2004.
  • American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History. Gabaccia, Donna, with Vicki L. Ruiz, University of Illinois Press, Co-Editor, 2006.
  • Gender and Migration: Gabaccia, Donna, with Katharine Donato, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansan, and Patricia Pessar, International Migration Revew, 40 , 2006.
  • Inventing Little Italy: Gabaccia, Donna, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2007.

Research Activities

  • Foreign Relations: An International History of U.S. Immigration: book under contract with Princeton University Press
  • Imagining Nations of Immigrants: a book that seeks to explain why the U.S., almost alone of the many nations of the world formed through migration, features immigration so prominently in its histories and myths about itself
  • Together with Loretta Baldassar, Anthropology, University of Western Australia, editing an Interdisciplinary Essay Collection: Intimacy Across Borders
  • Interdisciplinary Pilot Research Project "Gender Ratios and Global Migration" of the Immigration History Reseach Center and the Minnesota Population Center

Professional Activities

  • Rudolph Vecoli Chair in Immigration History Research, University of Minnesota: 2005
  • Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota: 2005
  • President, Social Science History Association: 2008

Awards

  • International and Interdisciplinary Research Circle Award, University of Minnesota Office of International Programs, 2007
  • President, Social Science History Association, 2007 - 2008
  • Co-Editor, University of Illinois Press Book Series, "Studies in World Migrations"
  • Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
  • Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation 2008-2009

Courses Taught

  • Comparative World Migrations
  • Migration in Global History
  • Women and Diasporas
  • Comparing Global Migrations (Graduate Level)
  • Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on Migration and Mobility (Graduate Level)
  • Introduction to History: Scopes and Methods (Graduate Level)
Alternative Output Formats Alternative Output Formats

Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

    CohenMedl02-thumb-350x262-20924.jpg
    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009

  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

     June 5th, 2009

  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

     June 5th, 2009

View All