Heidi Ardizzone

Assistant Professor
Concurrent Assistant Professor in History

Degrees

B.A.,Cornell University
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research Profile

Field:Nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and cultural history, gender and race in American culture. Professor Ardizzone has published two books and several scholarly articles.  Her first book, Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White, (W.W. Norton, 2001,) was co-authored with Earl Lewis and explored the cultural significance of a 1920s annulment trial that drew nation-wide media attention.  Her most recent book, An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege, traces the racial and social history of a prominent woman in New York’s rare book and art world in the 1910s and 1920s.  An Illuminated Life was released in 2007 and named a New York Times Editor’s Choice.

 In addition to her recent book, An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from  Prejudice to Privilege, W.W. Norton & Co., (2007,) Professor Ardizzone’s article “'Such Fine Families’:  Photography and Race in the Work of Caroline Bond Day, appeared in the October 2006 issue of Visual Studies and “Catching up with History:  Night of the Quarter Moon, The Rhinelander, and Interracial Marriage in 1959,” will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Mixed Race Hollywood, New York University Press.

Contact Information

326 Decio Faculty Hall
631-4144
Ardizzone.1@nd.edu