Pamela Ballinger headshot
Current Member

Pamela Ballinger

Hans Kohn Member

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Late Modern and Modern Italian History

Home Institution

University of Michigan
While at IAS, Pamela Ballinger will work on her book, “Materializing Mussolini’s Mediterranean: Infrastructures of Fascist Empire.” Interrogating what the expansionist project of Mare Nostrum meant in material terms, she explores the mobilization of fisheries, creation of scientific infrastructure, and special customs regimes in ports.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D.
1999
Johns Hopkins University
M.A.
1994
Cambridge University
M.Phil.
1991
Stanford University
B.A.
1990

Honors

2014-2015
Residential Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University
2010-2011
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
2009-2012
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars
2009-2010
Residential Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
2001-2002
NEH Post-Classical Humanistic/Modern Italian Studies Fellowship (Rome Prize), American Academy in Rome
2021
American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (History, Society and Politics)
2021
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies External Senior Fellowship/Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union
2021
Helen and Howard Marraro Book Prize for the Society for Italian Historical Studies, AHA
2020
Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of History, University of Michigan
1990
Carlsmith Merrill Award (Outstanding Graduating Student in the Social Sciences), Stanford