Associate Professor Soper is currently writing a book on a group of southern Italian political prisoners who became an international cause celebre in the 1850s. Previously, Soper published a study of associational life in nineteenth-century Italy, Building a Civil Society, with the University of Toronto Press. It won the American Association of Italian Studies 2014 prize for the best book on 18th- or 19th-century Italy, and the Society for Italian Historical Studies 2014 Marraro prize for the best book on the history of Italy. He has won a handful of teaching awards at the University of Georgia. Research Research Areas: Europe-Modern Political & Legal Selected Publications Selected Publications: Soper, Steven. Building A Civil Society: Associations, Public Life, And The Origins Of Modern Italy. Univ. of Toronto Press, 2013. Web. Education Education: PhD, The University of Michigan, Modern Italy 1996 Other Information Of note: University of Georgia, Franklin College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2015. J. Howard Hatten III teaching award, University of Georgia Honors Program, 2014
