Anna Vincenzi

Anna Vincenzi was born and raised in Carpi, a town in northern-central Italy. She attended college in Milan, where her interest in the American and French revolutions, along with exposure to the works of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and Alexis de Tocqueville, led her to major in History. Her academic pursuits eventually took her to the United States, where she began a PhD at the University of Notre Dame, focusing on the Age of Revolutions. She is currently completing a book on Italian interpretations of the American Revolution, examining how ideas of reform, revolution, republicanism, and democracy evolved between the American and French revolutions. The questions raised by her research—on the legacy of the Age of Revolutions in shaping modernity, liberal society, and European Christianity—inform both her teaching of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European history and her new research project on Luigi Sturzo and Christian Democracy prior to the rise of Fascism in Italy.

At Hillsdale College, she teaches Western Heritage, American Heritage, and upper-level courses in modern European history. Along with her husband, Lorenzo, she leads a summer program that takes Hillsdale students on a three-week journey across the Italian peninsula, from Sicily to the Alps, introducing them to Italy’s rich history, art, and culinary traditions. Anna and Lorenzo have four children: Costanza, Alessandro, Lucia, and Valentina.