Bruno Walter Renato TOSCANO

Bruno Walter Renato Toscano is a Post-Doc Researcher for the ERC-Project entitled “WO-NAM – Women and Non-Alignment in the Cold War era: biographical and intersectional perspectives” (P.I. Chiara Bonfiglioli). He is working as U.S. historian on the transnational history of women of color during the Cold War and the history of reproductive rights in America trhough a transnational prespective. His forthcoming monography will be on the transnational history of the Third World Women's Alliance and it's activism on reproductive rights.  

He earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pisa (grade: Excellent cum Laude) for a dissertation in U.S. History entitled “Their struggle is our struggle”: the Third World Women’s Alliance and the Alliance Against Women’s Oppression between anti-imperialism, reproductive rights, and transnational activism (1970-1989) under the guidance of Professor Vinzia Fiorino and Professor Elisabetta Vezzosi.

He earned his Bachelor in Philosophical and Historical Studies in 2016 at the University of Palermo with a dissertation entitled “George Lachmann Mosse: the New Politics for the New Man” under the supervision of Professor Salvatore Lupo (grade: 110 cum laude). Following archival research at the University of Berkeley and Stanford University, he obtained his master’s degree in History at Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna with a dissertation entitled “Revolution and Reformism in Babylon. The American Revolution of the Black Panthers (1966-1972)” under the supervision of Professor Raffaele Laudani and co-supervised by Professor Raffaella Baritono (grade: 110 cum laude).

Since 2019, he has collaborated with Rai Storia and Rai 3, participating in debates for the Italian TV show “Passato e Presente.” His research focuses on the history of the United States, the history of African Americans (with a focus on Afro-American activism in the 1960s, the 1970s, and 1980s), gender history, and transnational history during the Cold War.

He is currently working on his second book project, tentatively titled, "To be Black, Female, and Red: Antimperialism, Reproductive Rights, and the Long History of the Third World Women’s Alliance." 

 
Pubblications: 
2024

TOSCANO, Bruno Walter Renato, ‘Work locally but think globally’: the Alliance Against Women’s Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s, Gender & History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12779

2023

TOSCANO, Bruno Walter Renato, From Margin(s) to Center(s). The Third World Women’s Alliance (1969-1979), Contemporanea, Rivista di storia dell’800 e del ‘900, 4/2023. 

DOI: 10.1409/108690

Monography: TOSCANO, Bruno Walter Renato, Pantere nere, America bianca. Storia e politica del Black Panther Party [Black Panthers, white America: History and Politics of the Black Panther Party], Ombre Corte, Verona, 2023, pp. 293, [Italian].

 
2022
 
TOSCANO, Bruno Walter Renato, Romanzi Valentina (edited by), The Fractured States of America, Journal of American Studies in Italy, Issue 6/May 2022. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2612-5641/6822

TOSCANO, Bruno Walter Renato, Andreozzi Riccardo, Galli Alessandro, Guidi Michela, Lischi Silvia, Magri Michele, Manetti Gaia, Quaggio Sara (edited by), Multiple Identities (vol. I & II), Groundtable, Pisa University Press, January 2022 [English, Italian and French].

 
2021  
TOSCANO, Bruno Walter Renato, «Spazi di eccezione nel Cile di Pinochet: un’analisi di genere delle violenze sessuali nei centros de detención (1973-1989)»  [Spaces of exception in Pinochet’s Chile: a gender analysis of sexual violence in centros de detención (1973-1989)], in Sémata. Cienciais Sociais e Humanidades, El fenómeno de las peregrinaciones, Issue 33/2021 [Italian]. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/semata.33.7404.

2017  
TOSCANO, Bruno Walter Renato, «Le donne, il fordismo, Gramsci Una prospettiva di genere sulla società statunitense (1909-1930) » [Women, Fordism, Gramsci: a gendered perspective on American society (1909-1930)], Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, Issue 32, 4/2017 [Italian]. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/diacronie.6670.