Jo Ann Cavallo
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Jo Ann Cavallo (PhD, Yale, 1987) is professor and chair of the Italian Department at Columbia University and an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute. Her two latest books, The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto (winner of an MLA Publication Award) and The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884–1947): The Paladins of France in America (winner of a UNIMA-USA Nancy Staub Award), were also published in Italian. Among her edited volumes are Speaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy (co-edited with Carlo Lottieri) and Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving toward Freedom in Today’s World (co-edited with Walter Block).