Dominic Candeloro 1401 Cleveland Avenue LaGrange Park, IL 60526 Candeloro@CasaItaliaChicago.org, Dominic.Candeloro@gmail.com, dcandeloro@luc.edu Phone: 847-951-9109 Cell Candeloro Facebook: Dominic Candeloro Webpage google Italian American RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2012- present--adjunct instructor of Italian American Studies Loyola University Chicago; Chair of Campaign to create an endowed professorship of Italian American Studies. Conference organizer of LUC s Chicago Italians and Catholicism Nov. 8-9, 2013. 1981-present Part-time volunteer program co-ordinator and librarian Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia 2001-2006 Executive Director, American Italian Historical Association 2005---- -Co Director of the Exhibit The Dream...per non dimenticare Archivio Centrale dello Stato-Roma 1995-2003 Administrative Assistant to the Mayor of Chicago Heights 1991-1995 Director, Conferences/Workshops & Weekend College, Governors State University 1983-2003 Adjunct Professor of History, Governors State University 1983-1991 Continuing Education Coordinator, Office of Conferences and Workshops, Governors State University 1977-1982 Visiting Assistant Professor - History, University of Illinois, Chicago.and Director of the "Italians in Chicago" Project, $300,000 NEH Grant (1979-1982). 1976-1977 Visiting Assistant Professor - History, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign. EDUCATION 1970 Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, History. Dissertation:,Louis Freeland Post: Carpetbagger, Singletaxer, Progressive." J. Leonard Bates, Advisor. 1964 M.A. University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, History. 1962 B.A. Northwestern University, History and Secondary Teaching of Social Science Secondary Teaching Certificate, Illinois.
1954-1958 Bloom Township High School, Chicago Heights HONORS 2015 Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana 1982-1983 Fulbright Research Fellowship, Italy. 1977 1999 Fellowship, Newberry Library Summer Institute on Family/Community History Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award--Illinois Humanities Council 2003 Leonardo Da Vinci Award--Illinois Grand Lodge---OSIA TEACHING FIELDS Italian American History, U.S. History. The Progressive Era. Illinois History, Chicago History, Ethnic History, Russian History. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS World War II Changed Everything, The Rutledge History of Italian Americans, coedited by William Connell and Stanislao Pugliese. Routledge, 2018. Italian Women in Chicago: Mamma Mia, QUI debbo vivere?, co-editor with Kathy Catrambone and Gloria Nardini, Casa Italia, 2013. Also published in Italian, 2015. Reconstructing Italians in Chicago: Thirty Authors in Search of Roots and Branches, co-editor with Fred Gardaphe, Casa Italia, 2011. Chicago s Italians: Immigrant, Ethnic, American, Arcadia Making of America Series, 2003. Also published in Italian 2010. Images of America:Italians in Chicago, Arcadia Publishers, 1999. Voices of America: Italians in Chicago, Arcadia, 2002 Images of America: Chicago Heights, Arcadia Publishers, 1998, with Barbara Paul. Italians in Chicago: 1945-2005, Arcadia, 2011. Images of America: Chicago Heights Revisited, Arcadia Publishers, 2000, with Barbara Paul. "Chicago's Italians: A Survey of the Ethnic Factor," in Peter Jones and Melvin Holli's Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait, Eerdman's, 1995, Grand Rapids, MI. Making History: A Handbook for Italian American Social History Project s, National Italian American Foundation, 1990. "Italian Americans," in John Buenker and Lorman Ratner, eds., Multi-Culturalism in the United States, Greenwood Press, 1992. "Suburban (Small Town) Italians: Chicago Heights, 1880-1975," Peter D'A Jones and Melvin Holli, eds., Ethnic Chicago, Eerdman's, 1981; Second Edition, 1984. Published in Italian by the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation in Euro-Americani, 1988.
Scholarly articles in the following journals: Altreitalia, Illinois History Teacher, La Parola del Popolo, Prologue:The Journal of the National Archives, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Illinois State Historical Society Journal, Mid-America, History Teacher, La Storia, The Chicago Heights Star, The Italian American Encyclopedia, Fra Noi, La Societa' in Transizione, Book reviews in the following publications: Chicago History, Winterthur Portfolio, Journal of Economic History, La Parola del Popolo, Fra Noi, Illinois State Historical Journal. Coordinator of the Following Major Conferences: American Association of University Administrators International Conference on the Future of the University, Perugia and Siena, Italy September 18 & 19, 1991. Twentieth Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, "Italian Ethnics: Their Languages, Literature, and Life," November 12-15, 1987, Chicago. Served as co-editor of the published proceedings of this conference. Martin Luther King Observance (January 15, 1987), GSU. AIDS: Plague of the'80s (December 6, 1987), GSU. Garibaldi Conference (June 5, 1982), Illinois Humanities Council. Italian American Family and Community History (October 24-25, 1982), National American Italian Historical Association. Some twenty large (350 people) and small gatherings as part of the Italians in Chicago Project (1979-1981). PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS American Italian Historical Association, National President 1984-88, Newsletter Editor 1979-1984. Organization of American Historians Chicago Historical Society Illinois State Historical Society, former Board Member. COMMUNITY ACTIVITES Chicago Heights Historic Preservation Committee, author of several IHPA grants. Chicago
Heights Beautification Committee, Community Relations Board and Cable TV Committee 1995-2003. Chicago Southland Convention and Visitors Bureau, Board of Directors, 1995-2003 Democratic Candidate for Bloom Township Supervisor January-April 1993. Illinois Ethnic Consultation - Board Member 1986-1994. Blue Island Public Library Permanent Historical Exhibit "Blue Island: Realizing the Land, 1835-1985,"Staff Historian, 1985. Ethnic Area Specialist, Chicago Public Library. "America's Ethnic Heritage," Italian American Literary Series(1980). Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, Education Chairman (1978-1986) Italian Cultural Center, Member (1977-Present); President, (1988-1990). Cultural Program Chairman,(1990-Present). Festa Italiana, Arts and Culture Coordinator (1982-1994). MEDIA APPEARANCES Producer and Host of "Ciao, South Suburbia!" weekly radio show WCGO Chicago Heights, 1980-1995. Appearances on: Eyewitness News, Chicago (October 6, 1979); Studs Terkel (June 7, 1979 and September 19, 1984); Extension 720 (October 1989,1992); Public Affairs Shows on WBEZ, WCEV, WXRT and WTAQ, Chicago. CONSULTANTSHIPS Cultural Anthropology Department University of Rome (1986), James Banks revision of Ethnic Teaching Strategies (1986), Ethnic Tours Chicago 1985-1991, Regensteiner Press (1984), Agnelli Foundation, Torino, Italy 1981-1982, Brooklyn College Department of Sociology (1980), National Italian American Foundation (1981). LANGUAGES STUDIED Italian, French, Russian. FOREIGN TRAVEL England 1990 & 2003, Ireland 1992, Germany/Austria 1993, France 1994; Mexico, Canada, Italy 35 trips between 1970 and the present.
Application for the Status of Adjunct Professor My approach to teaching is based on the traditional liberal arts principles with which I was educated at Northwestern and the University of Illinois----History is a journey of self discovery and it is a dialog between the past and present. It sharpens our critical thinking skills and broadens our outlook. In my classes I have always challenged students to find themselves in history---to make their way through family history and concepts of race, class and ethnicity to understand how they as individuals and we as a society got here.