Address:
Dipartimento di Ricerche Europee
Università di Genova
Salita San Nicolosio, 1/8
16124 Genova
tel. 0039 <0>10 209-9043 / fax: 0039 <0>10 209-9099
e-mail: rubboli@unige.it
Born: Modena, Italy, 6 July 1948
Education:
1967-70 Classics, History, and Philosophy, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
1970-71 Dip.Ch.S., Regent College, UBC, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
1972 Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, University of Bologna
Fellowships and Awards:
1976-77 Post-graduate Fellowship, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1978-79 Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Fellowship), Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
1986 Visiting Scholar (JCB Fellowship), The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.I., U.S.A.
1990-91 Provost's Visitor (declined), Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University positions:
1981-1998 Research Fellow/Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
1990 Visiting Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
1992-94 Professor (affidamento), Istituzioni dei paesi di lingua inglese, Department of History, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
1992-95 Visiting Professor, Storia nordamericana, Department of History, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
1998---- Associate Professor, Storia dell'America del Nord, School of Political Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Professional activities:
Director (2001-2003), Research Centre in Canadian Studies, University of Genoa
Member of the American Historical Association, European Association of American Studies, Italian Association for Canadian Studies [executive committee], Organization of American Historians, Peace History Society [international board]
Member of the Editorial Board, Religioni e Società (1997-2002), Rivista di Studi Canadesi/Canadian Studies Review (1988-90; 1998---)
Publications and Professional Papers
BOOKS:
Editor, Una teologia per la prassi. Autobiografia intellettuale di Reinhold Niebuhr, Brescia: Queriniana, 1977
Editor, Social Gospel. Il movimento del 'Vangelo Sociale' negli U.S.A. (1880-1920), Torino: Claudiana, 1980.
Politica e religione negli USA. Reinhold Niebuhr e il suo tempo (1892-1971), Milano: F. Angeli, 1986.
Religione alle urne. Gli 'evangelicals' e le elezioni presidenziali negli U.S.A., Torino: Claudiana, 1988.
Co-editor with Lorenza Giorgi, Piero Guicciardini (1808-1886). Un riformatore religioso nell'Europa dell'Ottocento, Firenze: Olschki, 1988.
Co-editor with F. Farnocchia Petri, Canada ieri e oggi 2, Fasano: Schena, 1990.
Il Canada. Un federalismo imperfetto (1864-1990), Firenze: Giunti, 1992.
Co-editor with Emidio Campi, Protestantesimo nei secoli, vol. II: Settecento, Torino: Claudiana, 1997.
Editor, Ricostruzione e Riconciliazione. Il contributo delle organizzazioni di volontariato straniere alla ricostruzione in Provincia di Chieti dal 1945 al 1948 (mostra storico-documentaria), Firenze: Edizioni Polistampa, 1998.
Dio sta marciando, Molfetta (BA): La Meridiana, 2003.
Editor, John Wesley, La perfezione cristiana, Chieti/Torino: GBU/Claudiana, 2003.
Editor, The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: The First Twenty Years / La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés: les premiers vingt ans, Genoa: Research Centre in Canadian Studies, 2003.
I protestanti, Bologna: il Mulino, 2007.
ARTICLES:
"'Come una città sopra il monte': puritani e riforma della chiesa," Servitium, 69 (1990), pp. 94-100.
"'Come over and help us': le missioni cristiane e gli indiani nordamericani nel secolo XVII," Protestantesimo, 48 (1993), pp. 9-32.
"Tradition and Innovation: Old Ways and Departing Paths among Canadian Hutterites," Annali Accademici Canadesi, 9 (1993), pp. 51-67.
"Il fondamentalismo protestante negli Stati Uniti. Lo scontro con la modernità," Parolechiave, (1993), Number 3, pp. 86-97.
"La frammentazione dell'identità protestante e la ricomposizione dello scenario religioso," Acoma, 5(1998), Number 14, pp.4-12.
"Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). Nota bibliografica in occasione del terzo centenario della nascita," Protestantesimo, 59 (2004), pp. 88-91.
"Il fattore religioso nelle elezioni presidenziali degli Stati Uniti," DIREonline, 9 (2004) [http://www.direonline.it/].
"Qualche osservazione sull’Inauguration Day del secondo mandato di George W. Bush," Osservatorio sugli Scenari Internazionali, (2005) [http://www.scenarinternazionali.org/intervento%20rubboli.doc].
"Il problema della pena di morte e le reazioni all'impiccagione di Saddam Hussein negli USA," DIREonline, 9 (2004) [http://www.direonline.it/].
ESSAYS AND BOOK CHAPTERS:
"La radicalizzazione del Social Gospel, 1914-1920," Canadiana. Aspetti della storia e della letteratura canadese, ed. by L. Codignola, Venezia: Marsilio, 1978, pp. 57-70.
"Lamento per una nazione. La fine del Canadian Dream nel pensiero politico di George P. Grant," Canadiana, ed. by L. Codignola, vol. III, Venezia: Marsilio, 1983, pp. 116-127.
"Verso l'organizzazione politica della protesta operaia e della rivolta agraria nell'Ovest canadese, 1886-1932," Canada e Stati Uniti, ed. by V. Gennaro Lerda, Venezia: Marsilio, 1984, pp. 31-42.
"Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy e la comunità di Horekill nella Nuova Olanda," in Preludi di socialismo nel sec. XVII, ed. by G. Spini and G. Cingari, Bari: Laterza, 1988, pp. 211-27.
"Le chiese e la I guerra mondiale nel Canada inglese: il dovere di combattere e l'opposizione pacifista," Il Canada e la guerra: l'esperienza bellica di un popolo multietnico, ed. by L. Bruti Liberati, Milano: Guerini, 1990, pp. 83-108.
"The Doukhobors from Transcaucasia to Western Canada: private property vs. communal ownership of the land," Canada ieri e oggi 2, ed. by M. Rubboli and F. Farnocchia Petri, Fasano: Schena, 1990, pp. 155-182.
"In gods we trust. La storiografia religiosa americana dalla 'sintesi protestante' al riconoscimento del pluralismo," Una e divisibile. Tendenze attuali della storiografia statunitense, ed. by E. Fano, Firenze: Ponte alle Grazie, 1991, pp. 224-253.
"Immigrant workers, labour, and politics in Canada (1896-1914)," L'esilio nella storia del movimento operaio e l'emigrazione economica, Manduria: Lacaita, 1992, pp. 81-96.
"'La santa causa della libertà.' Protestantesimo e Rivoluzione americana," Modernità, politica e protestantesimo, ed. by E. Bein Ricco, Torino: Claudiana, 1994, pp. 167-204.
"Gender and Puritanism: A Preliminary Comment on Method," Methodology of Gender. Atti del XI Convegno di Studi Americani, ed. by G. Lombardo and M. Corona, Roma: Herder, 1994, pp. 541-558.
"Religious Liberty and the Separation of Church and State: Conflicting Interpretations of the First Amendement," Constitution & Revolution aux États-Unis d'Amérique et en Europe (1776/1815), ed. by R. Martucci, Macerata: Laboratorio di storia costituzionale, 1995, pp. 121-146.
"Exercises in Federalism: Political Action and Public Participation in the Process of Constitutional Change from Meech Lake to the Referendum," Memoria e sogno. Quale Canada domani?, ed. by Giulio Marra, Venezia: Supernova, 1996, pp. 337-53.
"Repubblicanesimo e Dissent nella Rivoluzione americana," Etica e religione nella tradizione repubblicana. Aspetti storici e teorici, ed. by Maurizio Viroli, Torino: Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, Torino 1996, pp. 73-94.
"Quebec and Canada: Back to the Future," Canada and the Nordic Countries in Times of Reorientation: Culture & Politics, ed. by Jørn Carlsen, Aarhus: The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, 1998, pp. 212-222.
"Religion, School, and Society. Quebec Public Education in Transition," Il Canada del nuovo secolo: gli archivi della memoria / Canada: the archives of memory / Le Canada: les archives de la mémoire, ed. by Giovanni Dotoli, Fasano: Schena, 2002, pp. 513-547.
"'Friendly Service to Suffering People:' American and British Friends' Relief Work in Italy (1943-45)," America and the Mediterranean, ed. by Massimo Bacigalupo and Pierangelo Castagneto, Torino: Otto, 2003, pp. 645-54.
"Guerra fredda e maccartismo: the Canadian way," C'era una volta in America. Cinema, maccartismo e guerra fredda, ed. by Marco Cipolloni and Guido Levi, Alessandria: Falsopiano, 2004, pp. 55-63.
"Canada, Peacekeeper to the World? Myths, Values, and Reality in Canadian Foreign Policy," Building Liberty. Canada and World Peace, 1945-2005, ed. by Conny Steenman-Marcusse and Aritha van Herk, Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing, 2005, pp. 145-162.
"L'anglicanesimo: un profilo storico-teologico," Il cristianesimo, vol. III: Le dottrine, ed. by Giuseppe Ruggieri, Torino: UTET, 2006, pp. 1117-1136.
"Il protestantesimo nordamericano," Il cristianesimo, vol. III: Le dottrine, ed. by Giuseppe Ruggieri, Torino: UTET, 2006, pp. 1230-1247.
"Résister à l'appel aux armes. Les chrétiens canadiens face à la guerre après septembre 2001," Religious Writings and War. Les discours religieux et la guerre. Texts collected by / Textes réunis par Gilles Teulié, Coll. "Les Carnets du Cerpac" n° 3, Montpellier: Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier III, 2006, pp. 411-434.
"Laïcité, pluralisme religieux et éducation au Québec à la fin du XXe siècle," Vers la construction d'une citoyenneté canadienne. Sous la direction de Jean-Michel Lacroix et Paul-André Linteau, Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2006, pp. 201-229.
"La fede e la retorica religiosa di George W. Bush," Democrazie e fondamentalismi, ed. by Daniela Belliti and Rodolfo Ragionieri, Pisa: ETS, 2006, pp. 125-144.
ENTRIES IN DICTIONARIES:
"Guicciardini, Piero" and "Beckwith, Charles," The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography: 1730-1860, ed. by Donald M. Lewis, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
PAPERS/LECTURES AT CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS:
"Christian Radicalism in the Depression Era," paper presented at the Second International Congress of North American History (Milan, Italy, 1979).
"'The Fellowship for a Christian Social Order' and Canadian radical thought in the 1930s," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1982).
"The Regina Manifesto and Canadian Socialism," paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Canadian Studies (Piazza Armerina, Italy, 1983).
"Lo stato degli studi canadesi in Italia," paper presented at the Seminar on Canadian Studies (University of Florence, Florence, Italy, 1983).
"The Frontier Hypothesis in English-Canadian Historiography," paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Canadian Studies (Selva di Fasano, Italy, 1985).
"Ethnicity, culture, and religion: the Mennonite experience," paper presented at the Advanced Seminar in North American History on Religion and Ethnicity in the United States and Canada (Rome, Italy, March 7-9, 1991).
"The Survival of Minorities: the case of the Hutterites," paper presented at the Conference on Minorities in Multicultural Societies (Turku - Stockholm, March 12-13, 1991).
"Il sistema federale canadese dal rimpatrio della Costituzione al fallimento dell'Accordo di Meech Lake," paper presented at the International Conference on Diritti fondamentali e sistemi federali (Università della Calabria, Italy, June 25-26, 1992).
"'To Plant Christian Religion, to Trafficke, to Conquer:' la conquista religiosa del Nordamerica nei secoli XVI e XVII," paper presented at the Conference on 1492: i molteplici volti della modernità (Genoa, November 23-26, 1992).
"The Pacifist Witness and Social Justice: The Canadian Mennonites in the Interwar Period (1919-39)," paper presented at the Second International Conference of Peace Historians (Stadtschlaining, Austria, September 25-29, 1991).
"Quebec and Canada: Back to the Future," paper presented at the Fifth Triennial Conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies on Canada and the Nordic Countries in Times of Reorientation: Culture & Politics (Aarhus, Denmark, August 15-18, 1996).
"Reconstruction and Reconciliation: the contribution of AFSC, FAU, and SCI," paper presented at the Conference on Ricostruzione e Riconciliazione nella Provincia di Chieti, 1945-1948, (Chieti, Italy, April 29, 1998).
"Education, religious instruction, and cultural diversity: the debate on Quebec's school system," paper presented at the Jerusalem Conference on Canadian Studies, (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, June 25-29, 2000).
"'To Heal the Wounds of War:' American and British voluntary organizations in Post-WWII Italy," paper presented at the 69th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, (Institute of Historical Research, London, July 5-7, 2000).
"Religion and National Identity in the United States and Canada," paper presented at the Conference on Recasting Canadian History in the Wider World, (Université de Montréal / University of Toronto / Università di Genova, Sestri Levante, Italy, May 4-6, 2001).
"Religion, School, and Society. Quebec Public Education in Transition," paper presented at the Fourteenth International Conference of the Italian Association for Canadian Studies Il Canada del nuovo secolo: gli archivi della memoria / Canada: the archives of memory / Le Canada: les archives de la mémoire, (Monopoli, Italy, May 30 - June 3, 2001).
"'Friendly Service to Suffering People:' American and British Friends' Relief Work in Italy (1943-45)," paper presented at the AISNA Sixteenth Biennial International Conference America and the Mediterranean, (Genoa, November 8-11, 2001).
"Federalism, Education and Religious Diversity," paper presented at the Fall Seminar of the European Network for Canadian Studies Federalism: Ideas and Policies / Fédéralisme: idées et politiques publiques, (Barcelona, Spain, November 29-30, 2001).
"McCarthyism: the Canadian way," paper presented at the Conference on Cinema, Maccartismo e Guerra Fredda, (Genoa, November 17, 2003).
"Laïcité, pluralisme religieux et éducation au Québec à la fin du XXe siècle," paper presented at the 'Colloque international' on Multiculturalisme, Religion et Éducation au Canada, (Paris, May 21-22, 2004).
"Résister à l'appel aux armes. Les chrétiens canadiens face à la guerre après septembre 2001," paper presented at the 'Colloque international' on Le discours religieux et la guerre dans le monde britannique / Religious Writings and War in the British World, the Empire and the Commonwealth, (Montpellier, November 25-27, 2004).