PhD Candidate
North America
Bio
Andrew Santamarina is a historian of U.S. immigration at the turn of the 20th century. He is primarily interested in the various ways relationships of power embedded in the migratory experience shaped understandings of identity and solidarity. His previous work examined the roles of interethnic rivalries and partnerships in the formation of both Italian and Cuban nationalisms in the United States through analysis of labor disputes and radical politics. His current work examines the convergence of immigration enforcement and law enforcement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Research Interests
-19th and 20th-Century U.S. History
-Immigration History
- Labor History
- Environmental History
- Criminality & Policing
- Italian American Studies
- Cuban American Studies
Publications
Santamarina, Andrew JS (2022) "Solidarietà Sotto la Terra: Italian American Community Building and Ethnic Strife in the 1913-14 Copper Country Strike," Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal: 3 (2), 60-78.
Awards and Fellowships
2023 Departmental Distinction in the History Major - UW-Madison History Department
2022 Hilldale Research Fellowship - UW-Madison
2022 William F. Vilas Scholar - UW-Madison
2021 Kemper Knapp Bequest Committee and the Brittingham Foundation Grant - UW-Madison
Education
B.A., History and Philosophy with Comprehensive Honors, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023
