This year marks the second of six funded years of the Panto Fellowship prize. The $1,000 fellowship is for graduate students who are writing their dissertation on any topic involving Italian emigrant and/or Italian ethnic labor and/or working-class life either in the United States or in the wider Italian diaspora.Submissions may come from all relevant fields of study in migration and labor studies, including, but not limited to, history, literary studies, film studies, gender studies, and political science. The fellowship will run for six years with one award given each year. The fellowship award is $1,000 US per year.
The fellowship is named after dockworker and labor activist Pietro “Pete” Panto (1910–1939), who was murdered for leading rank-and-file stevedores in a struggle for safe and democratic working conditions on the Brooklyn waterfront, which had long been in the grip of mobsters and corrupt elements in the union.
Applications can be submitted here: https://bordigherapress.submittable.com/submit.
Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2026. The winner will be notified on Labor Day, September 7, 2026.
If you have any questions, please write to the Calandra Institute at the following email: [email protected]