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"Reproductive Inequalities," NACLA Report on the Americas 48:1 (2016): 15-17.
"In Argentina, Feminists Versus the Catholic Church," NACLA Report on the Americas, June 7, 2018.
Fitz-Gibbon, D. Art Museum Blog: "Methoughts the Shilling: Teaching History with Money"
Ford, Kristie and Kelly Maxwell. 2024. 鈥淲hat is Intergroup Dialogue?鈥 In Facilitating Transformational Dialogues: Creating Socially Just Communities, edited by Stephanie Hicks and Donna Kaplowitz. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (subaward from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) for 鈥淒issecting the dynamic evolution of paralogs in shaping trait variation across the Solanum pan-genome.鈥 The project is for five years. (2022)
Received a grant from the Consulate General of Italy, Boston, to support an Italian tutor.
Frau, O., Guzzetta, J. (2026). Female Sovereignty: Disorienting Feminist Rhetoric in the Italian Far Right. Public Humanities, 2:e53. doi:10.1017/pub.2026.10157
Frau, O. (2026) Maria Majocchi (Jolanda) encyclopedia entry for the Dizionario biografico e tematico delle donne in Italia 1730-2020, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, Rome 2026, 476-480.
On June 6-11, 2025, Ombretta Frau gave a presentation at a Round Table on "Italian Studies at a Crossroads: Overviewing Theory, Challenges, and Resistance," Canadian Association for Italian Studies conference, University of Bologna.
Frau, O. (2025) 鈥淟a verit脿 punge: so che non mi mancheranno nemici. Alvise Piero Zorzi鈥檚 Venice,鈥 Canadian Association for Italian Studies conference, University of Bologna, 6-11 June, 2025
