Deborah Kaye earned her Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Arizona and her M.A. in Jewish History from The University of Michigan. Her research interests include nineteenth century Italian liberalism and Jewish corporatism. Research for Dr. Kaye’s dissertation Between Ghetto and State: Religious Policy, Liberal Reform and Jewish Corporate Politics in Piedmont, 1821-1831 was funded by a number of prestigious grants including the Fulbright, Krieble Delmas, Mellon, and Marshall fellowships. Her current book project entitled The Catholic Church and the Emancipation of the Jews in Modern Italy, 1815-1921 draws on her dissertation research to reveal the ways in which the process leading to Jewish emancipation in Italy undermined the Catholic Church’s capacity to compete effectively for its interests. It contends that Jewish emancipation was not just a change imposed by Napoleon, but also a peculiar way of medieval corporatism. Although much has been written about the intellectual and socioeconomic processes of Jewish assimilation and political integration by scholars of modern Jewish history, little if, any work has focused on the effects of Jewish emancipation on the institutional politics of the Catholic Church in Europe. This book when published will contribute to looking at the emancipation problematic within the larger context of European history.