Montclair State University
Italian Consulate Honors Teresa Fiore
Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies named “Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy”
Teresa Fiore was named “Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy” by the Italian Consulate.
Professor of Italian Teresa Fiore, Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, was recently awarded the Italian national honor of “Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia” (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) by the Italian Consulate.
The president of the Italian Republic grants the distinction “to Italians abroad or foreigners who have acquired special merit in the promotion of friendly relations and cooperation between Italy and other countries.” Fiore was honored during a special ceremony on February 24, 2021, at the Italian Consulate in New York.
I am a historian of social and ecological change in Latin American and the US West. I specialize in histories of conservation and animal history as well as pedagogy on the environment. My first book, Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, (University of Arizona Press, 2011) received awards from the Conference of Latin American History, the Forest History Society, and the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies. With Michelle K. Berry, I published a Primer for Teaching Environmental History (Duke 2018) and co-edited and contributed to The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation (Routledge 2017). My current research, tentatively titled “From Extinction to Biodiversity: How Conservation Translated Science in South America” is an exploration landscape change and nature protection over the twentieth century. Funded by a National Science Foundation Scholars Award and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, th