Dr donna gabaccia biography
Donna Rae Gabaccia (born ) is an American historian who studies international migration, with an emphasis on cultural exchange..
It has been over 20 years since Donna R. Gabaccia's seminal work Italy's Many Diasporas was published (London & New York, ).Donna Gabaccia
American academic
Donna Rae Gabaccia (born 1949) is an American historian who studies international migration, with an emphasis on cultural exchange, such as food and from a gendered perspective.
From 2003 to 2005 she was the Andrew Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and from 2005 to 2012 she held the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair of Immigration History at the University of Minnesota. During the same period, she was the director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
In 2013, her book, Foreign Relations: Global Perspectives on American Immigration won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's Theodore Saloutos Prize in 2013.
Biography.
Early life and education
Donna Rae Gabaccia was born in 1949 and grew up in rural New York State. Her mother's family were immigrants to the United States from Germany and her father's family were Italian immigrants.
As the first of her family to attend university, she was inte
