Ilaria Scaglia

A native of Italy, Dr. Ilaria Scaglia completed her undergraduate studies in Chinese Language and Literature at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice. She spent several months in China at the Beijing Yuyan Xueyuan (Beijing Language and Culture University) in Beijing, PRC, and at the New Asia-Yale in China Chinese Language Center, in Hong Kong, SAR, before starting her graduate studies in history in the United States. She received her Ph.D. in modern European history with a focus on international and transnational relations from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2011. Her dissertation, “The Diplomacy of Display: Art and International Cooperation in the 1920s and 1930s,” completed under the direction of Dr. Andreas Daum, discussed the case of the 1935-1936 International Exhibition of Chinese Art in London to explore how public performances and displays served as vehicles for the dissemination of ideas and as tools for the conduct of both domestic and foreign policy during the interwar period. In the summer 2014, she was a Visiting Fellow for Research at the Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, where she worked on a new project exploring mountains as concrete and metaphorical grounds for international cooperation. She is the author of “The Aesthetics of Internationalism: Culture and Politics on Display at the 1935-1936 International Exhibition of Chinese Art,” Journal of World History 26, 2 (forthcoming in the Summer 2015). She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Emotions of Internationalism: ‘Feeling:’ International Cooperation on the Mountains in the Interwar Period, which deals more broadly with the aesthetics and the emotions of internationalism. She regularly teaches a survey of World History from 1500 to the present, as well as advanced courses in Historical Methods, History of Emotions, Historiography, International Relations, Asian History, and "Orientalism, Europe, and the World." She is also Chair of the Subcommittee for the International Learning Community Program, Center for International Education at CSU.