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Marta Gara

Marta Gara is Ph.D candidate in Institutions and Politics at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Milan, Italy with a dissertation entitled ÔChange the System from WithinÕ: Participatory Democracy and Institutional Reforms in 1970s United States. She holds a MA in History and Society (University of Roma Tre) and a Postgraduate degree in Public History (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia). She was William P. Heidrich Fellow at the Joseph P. Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Visiting Research Scholar at Department of History of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Her main research interests are theory and practices of participatory democracy, American Political Development and post-1945 social movements. She is currently co-chair of the Graduates Forum of the Italian Association of American Studies (AISNA).

Review: ‘Americans in the World’, HOTCUS Winter Symposium 2021 (Online)

By | Published March 24, 2021

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Co-organized by Uta Balbier (HOTCUS Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Modern History at King’s College) and Jennifer Chochinov (third year Ph.D candidate in History at King’s College), ‘Americans in the World’ invited scholars to inquire how non-state actors connected the United States to the rest of the world and complicated the ideological underpinnings of America’s informal empire during the twentieth century. In doing so, the conference organisers wished also to highlight a recent shift in diplomatic history’s focus: from the traditional inquire of the diplomatic exchanges, military interventions and foreign trade to the individual experiences abroad of students, artists, missionaries, athletes, and scholars among others. Keynote speaker Kaeten Mistry (Senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of East Anglia and historian of United States and the world) devoted his lecture to showing the huge impact that the diplomatic history’s cultural turn had on the research field. Mistry stressed the […]