Dr. Susan V. Nicassio

Associate Professor of History

Address: 528 Griffin Hall

Phone: 482-5405

Past Courses:

Susan Nicassio, Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1989). Nicassio’s research and teaching focus on Early Modern European history, Cultural Studies, and Interdisciplinary Humanities. She hosted The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe in Lafayette, Louisiana in the spring of 2003. Several of her recent publications explore the historical importance of Tosca and include, Tosca’s Rome (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Tosca 2000: Acts of the Conference (University of Rochester Press, 2001), and “The Pain Doesn’t Matter: Tosca and the Law” in The Opera Quarterly (1990). Her other publications include, “For the Benefit of my Soul: Mass Obligations in an Eighteenth-Century Italian City” in Catholic Historical Review (1992) , “A Tale of Three Cities: Perceptions of Eighteenth-Century Modena” in Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1991) , and “A Model for Enlightened Absolutism: The Long-Distance Restructuring of Modena” in Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe (1991).