Danielle Battisti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
Danielle Battisti is an expert on American history, U.S. immigration and ethnic history, American immigration laws and policies, and U.S. foreign relations.
Biography
Dr. Danielle Battisti is an Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she specializes in American immigration and ethnic history. Her first book, Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform (Fordham University Press, 2019) won the Best First Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society in 2020.
Dr. Battisti recently co-edited and contributed to, Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States. The anthology came out with the University of Illinois Press earlier this year. Her current book project, Cold War Crossings: the United States and International Migration, 1945-1989 examines American involvement in the creation and operations of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, a postwar international government organization created in 1951 and charged with resettling European Displaced Persons and traditional economic emigrants to the Americas and Oceania.
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