Spencer Di Scala received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He was awarded Fulbright Fellowships to Italy as a student and traveled extensively in Europe.He was also awarded the University Continuing Education’s New England Regional award for outstanding teaching and innovative pedagogy. He taught at the University of Kentucky and then at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he is a full professor and Graduate Program Director in the History Department. Among other works, he has published three books on Italian Socialism, a book on European political thought, a book on modern Italy that was a selection of the History Book Club and has gone into several editions, and a history of Europe in the twentieth century: Twentieth Century Europe: Politics, Society, Culture. He has also published 200 articles in journals, newspapers, and encyclopedias. In 1983 he was named Senior Research Fellow in Rome and in 1997 Research Professor by the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also received the 2006 award for outstanding teaching and innovative pedagogy for his online courses from the University Continuing Education Association, New England Region. He is the recepient of the UCEA’s Excellence in Teaching Award for 2007. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals and edits a book series on Italian and Italian American Studies.
Online Courses Taught:
HIST313 Nineteenth Century Europe
HIST315 Europe 1900 to 1945
HIST316 Europe Since 1945
HIST334 Modern Italy from 1815 to the Present
HIST433 Mussolini and Fascism
HIST600 Research Methods
HIST605 Graduate Colloquium
