Anna Vincenzi
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“Il n’est rien de plus fécond en merveilles que l’art d’être libre; mais il n’y a rien de plus dur que l’apprentisage de la liberté.”— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
There is nothing more fruitful in wonders than the art of being free; but there is nothing harder than apprenticeship in liberty.
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Anna Vincenzi
Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2020
M.A., University of Notre Dame, 2016
M.A., Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), 2014
B.A., Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), 2011
Courses Taught
Age of Revolution: 1765-1848
Nineteenth Century Europe
Europe in the Twentieth Century
The Western Heritage
The American Heritage
The Fascist Revolution
Memberships, Societies, Awards, Publications
“Book manuscript (work in progress), Imagining an Age of Revolutions? The American Revolution in the Italian States.”
“‘Mutation in dominion,’ or beginning of an Age of Revolution? The American Revolution Seen from the Papal States,” Early American Studies 20, n. 3 (2022): 466-505.
“Filippo Mazzei’s Atlantic Revolutions: A New Dawn for Popular Sovereignty or Populism?” in People Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity, ed. Robert Ingram and Chris Barker (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).
Anna Vincenzi grew up in Carpi, a town in northern-central Italy. She moved to Milan for college planning on studying Italian literature, but after taking classes on the American and French revolutions and being exposed to the writings of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and Alexis de Tocqueville she switched to History. This eventually led her to move to the United States to start a PhD at the University of Notre Dame. Her field of research is the Age of Revolutions, and she is currently working on a book manuscript on Italian interpretations of the American Revolution. The project explores the way in which ideas of reform, revolution, republicanism, and democracy evolved in the decades between the American and French revolutions. At Hillsdale College she teaches Western Heritage, American Heritage, and upper-level classes in modern European history. Her husband, Lorenzo, is also from Italy and they have three children—Costanza, Alessandro, and Lucia.