 Diane Vecchio has been a faculty member of the History Department at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina since 1996.
A native of central New York, Vecchio graduated cum laude from State University of New York at Cortland with a degree in History. She earned a Master’s Degree in Modern Europe and a Ph.D. in Modern U.S. History from Syracuse University.
As immigration and woman’s historian, Professor Vecchio’s work focuses primarily on immigrant women’s work experiences in Italy and the United States, social networking and transnationalism. Her recent book, published by the University of Illinois Press, Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America challenges long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the previously unexamined regions of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Endicott, New York during the turn of the century.
She is the author of many articles including “Ties of Affection: Family Narratives in the History of Italian Migration,” in Journal of American Ethnic History, Winter/Spring, 2006 and "Gender, Domestic Values and Italian Working Women in Milwaukee: The Immigrant Generation," in Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives, Italian Workers of the World, edited by Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta. She has also written several pedagogical pieces on the importance of integrating immigration and ethnic history in the U.S. curriculum in both high school and college history survey courses.
Professor Vecchio received several grants administered by the New York State Council of the Arts and the Wisconsin Arts Council to conduct oral histories of immigrants and their children in Cortland, New York, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, respectively. Her research resulted in a collection of bound and transcribed oral interviews housed in the Cortland Free Library in Cortland and the Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and the Milwaukee County Historical Society.
Vecchio has been actively involved with the College Board as the Chief Faculty Consultant for the Advanced Placement Exam in United States History from 2001-2005 and a member of the Test Development Committee. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Italian American Review and Treasurer of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
She is married to Dr. John Stockwell. They have four children and one grandchild.
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