Associate Professor of History

Dr. Russo teaches courses on European and World History. She is interested in the relationship between bodies and empires. Based on archival research in multiple countries, her first book, Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) examines the construction of the international category of women's rights through European imperial feminist politics. She also published articles on the United Nations and gender politics, and on masculinity and decolonization. She is now working on a second book on the aesthetics of Third-Worldism in postwar Italy (under contract with Routledge), a project grounded in archival and oral histories.