Norman Naimark in Italy

Norman Naimark, '66, MA '68, PhD '72, is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European History, emeritus, and has served as the chair of Stanford’s history department, the Burke Family Director of Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Program and the Sakurako and William Fisher Family Director of Stanford’s Global Studies Division.

Norman was twice faculty-in-residence with his wife, Professor Katherine Jolluck, at the Florence Campus of Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Program (2017 and 2023). He has also written about the history of Italian Communism in his 2019 book, Stalin and the Fate of Europe. Both Norman and Katherine were recently lecturers at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (2024). Norman’s lecture program during this trip will provide an introduction to the Mediterranean and cover topics such as the interconnected worlds of Naples and Sicily, Sicily during World War II, and the Italy of Giorgia Meloni.

• Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution 

• Senior Fellow (courtesy) at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

• Recipient: Richard W. Lyman Award for outstanding faculty volunteer service, Stanford Alumni Association, 1995; Dean’s Teaching Award, Stanford University, 1991–1992, 2002–2003; and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1996

• BA 1966, MA 1968 and PhD 1972—all history, Stanford University