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Abstract
I am excited to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association. This journal has been a labor of love for numerous Italian American Studies Association (IASA) members over the years. The creation of an annual publication was proposed at the May 2014 IASA Executive Council meeting. Still, it never fully came to fruition until 2019–2020, when President Alan J. Gravano and then Vice President Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, with the help of Stan Pugliese, wrote the proposal for a new, annual, peer-reviewed journal with the University of Illinois Press. After a variety of meetings with both the press and IASA's ExCo, the proposal was accepted, and the Association signed a contract with UIP.The association launched a search for the founding editor position, and eventually, the committee interviewed me about the position. Having coedited the previous IASA conference proceedings from sessions hosted at the University of Calabria, Theorizing the Italian Diaspora: Selected Essays, I was delighted to have been chosen for this monumental task. Besides, obviously, completing the first volume, one of my most significant feats to date has been building vast advisory and editorial boards, including representatives from Canada, England, and Australia. Even within the US, Diasporic Italy has members from various universities “outside” the typical Italian migration-centered cities.Our inaugural issue is well balanced and presents material from colleagues across the US and Italy. We begin the volume with Robert Orsi's stellar keynote address from IASA's 50th Anniversary Annual Conference in Washington, DC (2017), and the volume concludes with President Alan J. Gravano and Vice President Alexandra de Luise's historical overview of the last fifteen years of IASA. Additionally, the issue includes two historical pieces, one more of a case study exploring the migrant situation of Italians from Palestrina (Lazio) to Southbridge, Massachusetts, while the other considers the link between confederate statues and those of Christopher Columbus, particularly citing the situation in Richmond, Virginia. This volume also includes two literary-centered contributions: one considers the concepts revolving around diaspora in contemporary literature, while the other examines the case of Adriana Trigiani's career, challenging it as simply “Chick Lit” and applying a diasporic and transnational theoretical lens. The final critical piece investigates the role in which Italian American foodways influence and have been influenced by Southern hospitality within the realm of sustainability and philanthropy. We conclude the volume by celebrating a series of Italian American authors and scholars, who have passed recently, and whose work has helped found the field.I'm excited to share this first inaugural issue with you and look forward to starting work on the second volume.Buona lettura!Many thanks to the relentless patience demonstrated by my two associate editors, Danielle Battisti and Mark Pietralunga, during this past year. Without their endless support and assistance, this volume would have never come to fruition. My heartfelt appreciation goes to the advisory board, editorial board, and all the reviewers who did an outstanding and timely job in the formulation of this inaugural issue. Finally, I wish to extend my thanks to Deanna Dorangrichia for designing Diasporic Italy's logo.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.029 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.249 | 0.202 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".