Mark Choate

Mark I. Choate is an associate professor of history, having joined the department faculty in August 2001. He serves on the executive committee of International Studies and is affiliated with Africana Studies and European Studies, teaching courses on Europe since 1914, Italy since 1848, World Civilizations since 1500, military history, colonialism, international migration, European fascisms, terrorism and counterterrorism (with the Political Science department), and strategy. Professor Choate is the author of Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (Harvard University Press, 2008), translated into Portuguese as Italianos no mundo: uma nação emigrante (São Paulo, 2023). Emigrant Nation was awarded the Council for European Studies Book Award, and the Marraro Prize, in 2010. Professor Choate began his undergraduate studies at the University of Oklahoma, and received his B.A. magna cum laude, M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in history (2002) from Yale University. His dissertation on Italian colonialism and migration, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship, was awarded Yale's Hans Gatzke Prize for an outstanding dissertation in European history. Professor Choate was awarded the Andrew Hill Clark Prize by the American Academy of Geographers for a presentation at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in Quebec. He has also presented conference papers at meetings of the American Historical Association, Social Science History Association, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Association for the Study of Modern Italy, and French Colonial History Society. His articles and reviews have appeared in Forum Italicum, Modern Italy, French Colonial History, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Italian Culture, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, and International Migration Review.

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