Adele Valeria Messina

Junior fellow

Research interests

Antisemitism and Racism, Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue, Judaism, Religious Pluralism, History of Holocaust Sociology.

Education, academic and professional experience

From December 2021 she is Junior research fellow at FSCIRE and a member of the Pipeline Religion and politics Martyrology of People at Prayer.

She held a ReIReS TNA Fellowship (Horizon 2020) at KU Leuven for the research “Reading R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s ‘Confrontation’ within the Context of De Libertate Religiosa” (20 June-11 July 2021) and EHRI Fellowship at the Wiener Library in London for conducting the research “Internet-based Holocaust Denial: Analysis of the (Pseudo) Sceptical Methodology in Bradley R. Smith’s Revisionist Texts” (September-October 2018).

From 2020 she is a member of the editorial team of Journal of Political Science and International Relations.

From 2015 to 2022 she is a contract professor in Contemporary History at the University of Calabria (1st October-31st December 2015; in the academic years 2017-2018; 2019-2020) and in History of Judaism in the Modern and Contempoary Ages at the University of Palermo in the academic year 2021-2022.

She worked at the Research Project 2012-2013 MURST Ex 60%, “La storia culturale. Storia e semiotica per un approccio critico al passato”; Scientific Research Program of relevant national interest (COFIN MURST 2008-2010) entitled “Ridefinire la Nazione: diritti di cittadinanza e minoranze nelle crisi dello Stato (1914-1999)”; Research Project 2009 EX MURST 60% “La storiografia della Shoah”; Research Project 2007-2009 “Modernità e Olocausto e Resistenza” at ANPI, Casa della Memoria e della Storia in Rome. She worked as intern at the Centro Telematico di Storia Contemporanea (ANPI) in the years 2007-2008.

She received her PhD in Politcs, Society and Culture in 2013 from the University of Calabria (Department of Political and Social Sciences) with a dissertation entitled “La distruzione degli ebrei e la sociologia dal 1933 a oggi”, published by Academic Studies Press (2017).

She obtained the international Master’s Diploma of second level in Teaching the Holocaust at the University of Roma Tre with a dissertation entitled “La non modernità della Shoah” after her Master’s Degree in Political Science in 2006 at the University of Calabria.

Featured publications

Monographs

A.V. Messina, American Sociology and Holocaust Studies: The Alleged Silence and the Creation of the Sociological Delay, Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2017. Reprint Open Access, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618115485.

Articles

A.V. Messina, New Perspectives on Everett C. Hughes’ Sociological Works about the Holocaust, 1930s-1980s, «Journal of Modern Jewish Studies» 19, 3 (2020), pp. 337-361, DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2020.1713512.

A.V. Messina, Lo sviluppo della Dichiarazione sull’ebraismo del Concilio Vaticano II: Rassegna dei nodi fondamentali, «Free Ebrei: Online Journal of Contemporary Jewish Identity (2020), http://www.freeebrei.com/anno-ix-numero-2-luglio-dicembre-2020/adele-valeria-messina-lo-sviluppo-della-dichiarazione-sullebraismo-del-concilio-vaticano-ii.

A.V. Messina, L’idéologie raciale aux États-Unis: Edward A. Ross et la construction du discours antisémite, «Diasporas. Circulations, migrations, histoire» 31 (2018), pp. 115-129, https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/1336.

A.V. Messina, Zofia Lipecka: Je devais les dessiner, «Free Ebrei: Online Journal of Contemporary Jewish Identity» 7, 2 (2018), http://www.freeebrei.com/anno-vii-numero-2-luglio-dicembre-2018/adele-valeria-messina- zofia-lipecka-je-devais-les-dessiner.

A.V. Messina, Behind the Online Access. Notes and Papers of Everett C. Hughes: a Small Treasure for the Post- Holocaust Sociology, «Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări (Holocaust. Study and Research» 9, 10 (2017), pp. 117-139, https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=591317.

A.V. Messina, Tra Autorità e Scetticismo, «Free Ebrei: Online Journal of Contemporary Jewish Identity» 5, 2 (2016), Adele Valeria Messina, Tra autorità e scetticismo - Free Ebrei.

A.V. Messina, Open access meets productivity: “Scholarship, see effect of being an efficient source”, «Dariah Winter School in Prague: Open Data Citation for Social Sciences and Humanities» (2017), pp. 93-94, http://opendatacite.huma-num.fr/content/DARIAH_Winter_School-6-CaseStudies.pdf.

A.V. Messina, Nel campo di Auschwitz, «Free Ebrei: Online Journal of Contemporary Jewish Identity» 4, 2 (2015), http://www.freeebrei.com/anno-iv-numero-2-luglio-dicembre-2015/nel-campo-di-auschwitz-a-cura-di- adele-valeria-messina.            Rist.: «Deportate, Esuli e Profughe» 30 (2016), pp,   202–26, http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=200057.

A.V. Messina, “Intervista con Jean-Léonard Touadi,” «Daedalus. Quaderni di Storia e Scienze Sociali» 4 (2012), http://www.sociologia.unical.it/daedalus/home.htm.

A.V. Messina, Sociologia e Shoah: Una ricognizione storica, Maggio, http://www.sissco.it/download/attivita/Messina_ppr.pdf.

Edited Volumes

M. Dziaczkowska, A.V. Messina (eds.), Jews in Dialogue: Jewish Responses to the Challenges of Multicultural Contemporaneity, Leiden, Brill, 2020.

Chapters in books

A.V. Messina, In cerca di pace alla ricerca della salute: punti vicini tra due esperienze, in Studiare la pandemia: Diseguaglianze e resilienza ai tempi del Covid-19, a cura di D. Cersosimo, F. Cimatti, F. Raniolo, Roma, Donzelli, 2020, pp. 601-608.

A.V. Messina, (in collaborazione con M. Dziaczkowska), Introduzione, in Jews in Dialogue: Jewish Responses to the Challenges of Multicultural Contemporaneity, edited by M. Dziaczkowska, A. V. Messina, Leiden, Brill 2020, pp. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425958.

A.V. Messina, Pulire il Paese da ogni grumo insolubile: note per uno studio su Edward Alsworth Ross e l’ideologia razziale negli Stati Uniti di fine Ottocento-inizio Novecento, in Figli della memoria a cura di P. Coen, C. Ferranti, Macerata, EUM, 2014, pp.69-91.

 A.V. Messina, Prefazione in Apos Vergae. Nato già grande, Book Sprint Edizioni 2014, pp. 7-10.

Dictionary/encyclopedias/catalogs entries

A.V. Messina, Peacemaking, in Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History [2 vol.], edited by S. De-Gaia, ABC-CLIO, 2018, pp. 185-188, http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440848506.

A.V. Messina, Shoah, Treblinka, Ghetto di Varsavia, in Ci guardano, a cura di Zofia Lipecka, Cosenza, Museo del Presente, 2018.

Reviews

Final Solution. The Fate of the Jews, 1933-1949 by David Cesarani, in «Free Ebrei: Rivista di identità ebraica contemporanea» 6, 1 (2017), http://www.freeebrei.com/anno-vi-numero-1-gennaio- giugno-2017/david-cesarani-final-solution.

Percorsi storico-educativi della memoria europea. La Shoah nella società italiana by Luca Bravi, in «Mestiere di Storico. Annale Sissco» 1 (2015).

Conferences, seminars and workshops

15-17 September 2021, “The Jerry Falwell-Menachem Begin Connection”: Il Sionismo cristiano, Reagan e gli equilibri mediorientali, panel Fondamentalismo cristiano e geopolitica nella presidenza Reagan: tra tendenze di lungo periodo ed effetti rebound, Cantieri di Storia SISSCO, Cagliari.

30 Auguts-2 September 2021, Jews in Dialogue: Jewish Responses to the Challenges of Multicultural Contemporaneity, Author Meets Critique, Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion, Münster.

30 August-2 September 2021, Towards a Rethinking of Catholic Identity through the Critical Thinking of Ulrich Beck, panel Christianity and Alterity. Towards more Inclusive Theology—Ecumenical and Interreligious Turn, Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion, Münster.

7-9 June 2021, The History of Post-Holocaust Sociology since 1945: Key Concepts and Works Typical of the Sociological Discipline Dealing with the Destruction of the Jews, Summer Teachers’ Institute-HMREC 2021 Dr. Norman M. Wall, Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, Maitland, invited paper.

27-28 January 2020, Tra uomini normali e carnefici antisemiti: continuità e trasformazioni delle teorie strutturalista, funzionalista e logicista, seminar Tenere viva la memoria nel processo di pace: in memoria di Piero Terracina, University of Macerata, Macerata, invited paper.

17 December 2020, Note per lo studio storico della sociologia della Shoah: voci e documenti dagli anni Trenta agli anni Cinquanta, corso di perfezionamento Didattica della Shoah: Orizzonti lontani, orizzonti impossibili. Percorsi e luoghi di accoglienza per perseguitati e profughi ebrei tra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta, University of Florence, Florence, invited paper.

4-9 March 2019, Co-organizer of the Panel Jews in Dialogue: Jewish Responses to the Challenges of Multicultural Contemporaneity, Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion, Bologna.

29-30 March 2019, (in collaboration with Michael Berkowitz) Remembering Jews in Europe’s Future: An Appreciation of Ulrich Beck, Memories of the Future International Conference, School of Advanced Study University of London, London.

11-15 November 2018, The Accounts of Three non-Jewish Survivors of Auschwitz: Testimonies against Internet-based Holocaust Denial, EHRI Seminar From the Living Room to the World-Wide Web: Documenting, Uploading and Utilizing Holocaust Testimonies in the Digital Age, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

19 October 2018, Internet-based Holocaust Denial: Analysis of the (Pseudo) Sceptical Methodology in Bradley R. Smith’s Revisionist Texts, seminar A Talk at the Wiener Library, Wiener Library, London, invited paper.

19 February 2018, La sociologia italiana a confronto, 1945-1970, Ossidiana Seminar Italian Sociology 1945-2010. An Intellectual and Institutional Profile, University of Calabria, Rende, invited paper.

15 Januar 2018, Trauma culturale: fra memoria e storia, Ossidiana Seminar Fra Voltaire e Jihad. Gli attentati di Parigi come dramma sociale e trauma culturale, University of Calabria, Rende, invited paper.

21 November 2017, American Sociology and Holocaust Studies: The Alleged Silence and the Creation of the Sociological Delay, Book Launch American Sociology and Holocaust Studies: The Alleged Silence and the Creation of the Sociological Delay, University of Calabria, Rende.

25-27 Juty 2017, Interpreting Archives”: Investigating some Past Events of Jews in Everett C. Hughes’ Papers, Conference Interpreting Archives: British Association of Holocaust Studies Fourth Annual Conference, University of Sheffield, Sheffield.

6-8 June 2017, After The Dariah Winter School in Prague: the Online Access of Everett C. Hughes’ Works, EHRI Workshop Online Access of Holocaust Documents: Ethical and Practical Challenges, “Elie Wiesel” National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Bucarest.

24-28 October 2016, Open Access Meets Productivity: “Scholarship, See Effect of Being an Efficient Source”, DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale Winter School Open Data Citation for Social Sciences and Humanities, Charles University, Prague.

19 May 2016, Co-organizer of conference Autorità contese. Ebraismo e Islam tra legittimità e scetticismo, University of Calabria, Rende.

18 February 2015, Il KL-VL di Auschwitz visto con gli occhi di una scienziata sociale: la deportazione politica di Anna Pawełczyńska, Seminar Donne nei Lager. Esperienze della deportazione, University of Calabria, Rende, invited paper.

23-25 April 2013, Paul Neurath: da prigioniero politico a scienziato sociale, Seminar Ferramonti 1943-2013. Storia, contesti, didattica, prospettive, Università della Calabria, Rende, invited paper.

22 April 2013, Sociologia e racconti, Book Launch, Il sociologo e i racconti, Libreria Ubik, Cosenza, invited.

25 January 2013, La distruzione degli ebrei e la sociologia dal 1933 a oggi, Seminar Ossidiana e le Scienze Sociali, University of Calabria, Rende, invited paper

12 December 2012, L’area grigia: contesto storico, seminario Alleanze nell’ombra. Mafie ed economie locali in Sicilia e nel Mezzogiorno, University of Calabria, Rende, invited paper.

19-20 October 2012, L’olocausto nella letteratura e nell’arte contemporanea: Dialogo con Nava Semel, Corso di Storia e Didattica della Shoah, Museo della Memoria Ferramonti di Tarsia, Ferramonti di Tarsia, invited paper.

27-28 January 2012, “Pulire il paese da ogni grumo insolubile”: razzismo e antisemitismo nell’America della Grande Crisi, conferenza I semi del razzismo, Auschwitz, 27 gennaio 1945: temi, riflessioni, contesti, University of Calabria, Rende.

26-28 May 2011, Sociologia e Shoah. Una ricognizione storica, Seminario nazionale dottorandi SISSCO, Storie in corso VI Attorno alla guerra Civile europea, University of Catania, Catania.          

10 May 2011, La non modernità della Shoah, Conference Le sfide della Didattica della Shoah, University of Roma Tre, Roma, invited paper.