John Alcorn is Professor of European History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is a past International Doctoral Research Fellow of the Social Science Research Foundation and Fulbright/Hays Grantee. He was Chamberlain Fellow and President’s Fellow at Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in European History. Dr. Alcorn has taught in the history of ideas program at Columbia College and has taught modern history at the University of Palermo. In the summer of 1990, he was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sienna in Italy. In 1997, he was Research Fellow for the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation in Italy and a visiting professor at the University of Palermo. For the summer of 2000, he won an NEH Faculty Seminar Grant in Italian Studies at Yale.
Past Lectures:
- Italian History During the 19th Century
- The Impresario as Entrepreneur in 19th Century Italy
- The Mafia in 19th Century Sicilian Society and Culture
- The Opera and Law in 19th Century Italy
- The North-South Division in Italian History
- Italian Society in the Age of Opera
- The Place of Violence in Italian Society and Its Representation on Stage
- Italy Under Napoleon: Society and Culture, 1797-1814
- Where Is Italy Going: Twists and Turns of Italy’s Ongoing Change of Regime
- Così Fan Tutti: Corruption Scandals in the Performing Arts in Italy
- Verdi and Italian History
- The World in a Poem: Giacomo Leopardi’s L’Infinito