Academic Affiliation

Bio

My research focuses on ideas of race and class in radical movements across the West. My first monograph, forthcoming with the University of Illinois Press, explores racial thought in the American socialist movement. My research has been published in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, RSA Journal, the Annali della Fondazione Einaudi. Currently, I am working on a project on ideas of race, colonialism and imperialism in the Second International (1889-1914).

I was co-chair of the AISNA Graduate Forum from 2015 to 2019, now I am an elected member of the organisation’s Steering Committee.

Selected Publications

EDITED COLLECTIONS

1. Costaguta, Steven Parfitt, John Tiplady, Matthew Kidd (eds.), Working Class Nationalism and Internationalism before 1945: Essays in Global Labour History (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018).

ARTICLES

1. Costaguta, “For a Racial and Transnational History of the Origins of American Socialism,” USAbroad (forthcoming – 4.663 words).
2. Costaguta and Johannes Lotze, “Multilingualism and Transnationalism in the Study of Socialist Movements: a Letter from Friedrich A. Sorge to Karl Marx,” RSA Journal (forthcoming – 7.071 words)
3. Costaguta, “‘Geographies of Peoples:’ Scientific Racialism and Labor Internationalism in Gilded Age American Socialism.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2 (2019), 199-220. (12.200 words)
4. Costaguta, “Teaching the Sixties: Politics, Pedagogy and the Meaning of a Decade,” Jam It! Journal of American Studies in Italy 2 (2019), 29-40. (6.754 words)
5. Costaguta, V. Pignagnoli, “Teaching American Studies in Europe: Perspectives and New Directions for the Twenty-First Century,” RSA Journal 29 (2018), 161-194.
6. Costaguta, “Social Norms and Legal Rules. A Comparison of the Theories of Friedrich Hayek, Herbert L.A. Hart and John Rawls,” Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, vol. XLVI-2012, Torino 2012, 361-384. (10.391 words)

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Costaguta, “Before Baku: The Second International, Race and Colonialism,” in Anne Garland Mahler, Paolo Capuzzo (eds.), Global Designs/Local Encounters: Political Imaginaries of the Third International (forthcoming; book under contract with Routledge).
2. Costaguta, “Marxismo, Identità, Nazione: la Vita e il Pensiero di Daniel De Leon” [Marxism, Identity, Nation: the Life and Thought of Daniel De Leon], in Pierpaolo Poggio (ed.), L’Altronovecento: Comunismo Eretico e Pensiero Critico [The Counter-Twentieth Century: Heretical Communism and Critical Thought] (Milano: Jaca Book 2013).