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Home > Our Faculty > Faculty Profiles > Joseph FracchiaJoseph Fracchia
PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHYProfessor Fracchia's major areas of emphasis are the history of social and political theory and historical theory. His work is situated at the intersection of intellectual history and the philosophy of history. He has published a book in German, Die Marxsche Aufhebung der Philosophie und der Philosophische Marxismus, and several articles and reviews in History and Theory, the leading journal for historical theory.Professor Fracchia's teaching has been acknowledged with the Ersted Distinguished Teaching Award, two Humanities Center course development grants, each of which was accompanied by a named professorship (The Coleman-Guitteau and the Evelyn and Robert Wulf professorships), and as Teacher of the Month. Professor Fracchia has served on several important Honors College, College of Arts and Sciences, and University committees, including the Honors College Executive Committee, the Faculty Personnel Committee, University Research Grant Committee, and the German Studies Committee. Professor Fracchia is currently working on a major book project entitled Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics. This is an attempt to ground historical theory in human corporeal organization and to develop a way of viewing social and cultural history in terms of the capacities and limits residing in the human body. He is also conducting research on the history of Piana degli Albanesi, an Albanian community in Sicily, that was founded in 1488, that has maintained its language and cultural traditions, and that is the village from which his maternal grandparents emigrated. |
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