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Caroline Waldron Merithew is Associate Professor of History and Human Rights Center Fellow at the University of Dayton. She specializes in immigration, labor, and women’s history. Her current research focuses on transnational feminism and antifascism in the fight against Italy’s colonial quest for and invasion of Ethiopia, 1920s-1940s. On this subject, she has published the article: “’O Mother Race’: Race, Italian Colonialism and the Fight to Keep Ethiopia Independent, Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict (2018). Her earlier publications include works on the Italian Diaspora, including: “Domesticating the Diaspora: Remember the Life of Katie DeRorre,” in Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World (Fordham 2011); “Anarchist Motherhood,” in Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives (2002); and “Making the Italian Other,” in Are Italians White‘ (2003).