Italian Department

Collection

Identifier: BC13-32

Staff View

Collection Scope and Content Summary

This collection contains correspondence, event fliers, and budgets. The bulk of the records are from the 1980s and relate to Center for International Scholarly Exchange Program (C.I.S.E.). This collection also includes documentation surrounding the department founding.

Dates

Creation: 1974 - 2002

Access

Some materials within this collection are restricted: Personnel records of faculty and staff (including search, tenure/promotion, and disciplinary/grievance records) are restricted for 75 years from the date of creation.

Publication Rights

No permission is required for reproductions of materials in the public domain or uses that fall within fair use exemptions to copyright as defined under U.S. Copyright Law.

Barnard College retains copyright of materials created as part of its business operations. To request permission to reproduce these types of materials, please contact us at archives@barnard.edu.

This collection may also contain materials created by others, for which copyright is not held by the College. In order to reproduce these materials, permission from the Archives is not required, but it is researchers' responsibility to determine and obtain any necessary permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or other rights.

Please see our Reproductions, Copyright, and Citing Archives page for more information and contact us at archives@barnard.edu with any questions.

Reproduction Restrictions

Reproductions can be made for research purposes.

Historical Summary

This collection contains 5 boxes of correspondence primarily from Maristella Lorch, Professor and Chairman of the Italian Department and Medieval Renaissance Program, and Director of the Center for International Scholarly Exchange Program (C.I.S.E.) until her retirement in 1990. The C.I.S.E was founded by Lorch in May of 1980 for the purpose of joining “international academic communities in unique exchange programs,” with student and professor exchanges spanning for periods varying ten days to a month. It began with an agreement between Barnard College, Columbia University and the University of Rome, but grew to include members from the University of Venice, Hong Kong, the Schlesinger Foundation in Switzerland, and many other institutions both in the U.S. and abroad. The C.I.S.E. also organized joint conferences, congresses, and partnered with the Translation Center of Columbia University.

Extent

2.09 Linear Feet (5 document boxes five inch floppies from various academic departments 20, standard size floppies from various academic departments)

Language

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection consists of materials from the Barnard College Italian Department.

Collection Arrangement

The archivist arranged this colllection chronologically at the file level.

Physical Location

This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the Italian Department.

Accruals

Additions are expected.

Processing History

From September-October 2025, an undergraduate student associate, Samantha Candelo Ortegon rehoused the existing collection and the accural. In October 2025, Olivia Newsome updated the description of this finding aid and processing a significant accrual.

Descriptive Rules Used: Finding aid adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Encoding: Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.

Finding aid written in English.