-PhD History, Concordia University (present)

-MA Public History, Carleton University (2019)

-BA Honours Public History, Concordia University (2017)

-Exchange Program, History and Political Science, Sciences Po Paris (2014)

-BFA Studio Arts, Italian minor, Concordia University (2015)

-DEC Creative Arts, Literature, and Languages, CEGEP Marianopolis College (2010)

-Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar, Calandra Institute at Rome Tre University (June 2025)

-Experimental Ethnographies: Oral History, Remixed, Oral History Summer School (May 2018)

-Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Concordia University (present)

-Contract teacher, Department of History, Dawson College, Montreal, QC (June 2019 - present)

-Teacher, "All Over the Map: Imaginary places, phantom islands, and unknown lands", Enrichment Mini-Course, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (May 2019)

-Teaching Assistant, HIST 1300: The Making of Canada, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (2017 - 18)

-History and Culture Special Counsellor, Trevor Williams Kids Foundation, Montreal, QC (May - August 2016)

-Tutor & Class Aid, Dante Elementary School, English Montreal School Board, Montreal, QC (September 2011 - June 2016)

-Teen Leadership Program Coordinator, Camp Allegria, Leonardo Da Vinci Centre, Montreal, QC (June - August 2015)

-Art Teacher, 4Cats Art Studio NDG, Montreal, QC (November 2013 - June 2014)

-Researcher, for forthcoming (2026) “Le cucitrici – The Seamstresses” exhibit, Alliance Donne x MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises (05/2025 - present)

-Oral historian, Italian-Canadian Archives of Quebec (01/2024 - present)

-Artist, Michaela Di Cesare and Theatre Ouest End, “Mickey & Joe: Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty,” a play by Michaela Di Cesare (10/2024 - 01/2025)

-Researcher, Canada Agriculture and Food Museum (01 - 03/2024)

-Research Assistant, Kitchen Table Collective (07/2025 - present)

-Reference Archivist, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, ON (09/2024 - 03/2025)

-Scholar in Residence, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (2023-2024)

-Archives Intern, Italian-Canadian Archives of Quebec, Casa d'Italia, Montreal, QC (August 2019-March 2020)

-Research Assistant, Carleton Centre for Public History, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (September 2018-June 2019)

-Intern, Lost Ottawa, Ottawa, ON (May-September 2018)

-Intern, Museum of Jewish Montreal, Montreal, QC (January-April 2017)

-Research Assistant, Querelle Project, Montreal, QC (September 2015-April 2017)

-Intern, Continui-T, Centre d'archives de Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Vaudreuil, QC (May-June 2015)

-Contributing Writer, Panoram Italia Magazine (April 2024-present)

-Chief Blog Editor, Bridging, Blog for the International Federation for Public History (March 2018-present)

-Private Editor, academic texts (September 2016-December 2023)

-Editor, Historiae undergraduate journal, volume 15, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (September 2016-April 2017)

-Visual Arts Editor, Montreal Rampage, Montreal, QC (July 2015-2017)

-Student Life Animator, Villa Maria High School, Montreal, QC (May 2022-December 2023)

-Historical Coordinator, Social Media, Canadian Italians Against Oppression, Montreal, QC (August 2020-2023)

-Communications Coordinator, Capital Heritage Connexion, Ottawa, ON (April 2018-July 2019)

-VP Social and "History Formal" Chair, History Graduate Students' Association, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (May 2018-April 2019)

-Events Coordinator, Yiara Magazine, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (May 2013-14)

-Dalla valigia alla tavola: A journey through Molisan culinary heritage (2023), oral historian, researcher, writer [link]

-Historians Cooking the Past in the Time of COVID-19 (2020), collaborator [link]

-The Yellow Line (2018-2019)

-Ottawa Love Stories: A Sonic Adventure Map (2018-2019) [link]

-Ottawa Love Stories Jane's Walk (May 5, 2018)

Junk journal activity (with Romy Shoam) and Guided Discussion: The Precarity Manifesto (with Stacey Zembrzycki), the Kitchen Table Collective Meeting, Concordia University + MEM Centre des mémoires Montréalaises, Montreal, QC (June 11-14, 2026)

“Poutine à l’italienne: Inventing “Italian Food” in Montréal,” at Self, Other, History, Canadian Historical Association, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI (June 1-3, 2026). Panel sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism.

“The Evil Eye in Italian Canadian Folk Culture: A Visual and Oral Inquiry,” with Marisa Portolese, at Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and across Italian Mobilities Conference, Calandra Institute, New York, NY (April 24-25, 2026)

“Carnevale/Cabane à Sucre: Reinventing Tradition Between Molise and Québec,” at Quebec Past & Present: the 14th Colloquium on Quebec Studies, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC (March 27-28, 2026)

“Telling Italian-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal's Backyards and Schoolyards,” at the Associazione italiana di studi canadesi, L’Orientale, Napoli (Nov. 26-28, 2025)

“Inventing Montreal’s Italian Food” at the Italian-American Studies Association annual conference, University of Montclair, Montclair, NJ (Nov. 5-6, 2025)

“Quelles transformations dans l’identité culinaire italo-montréalaise” at the Journée d’étude Made in Little Italy : un goût italo-montréalais, Istituto italiano di cultura, sponsored by the Centre de recherche Cultures – Arts – Sociétés (July 9, 2025)

“We are what we eat?” panel at Librissimi: Toronto Italian Book Festival (May 4, 2025)

“Dalla valigia alla tavola: Recipes and oral histories from Montreal’s molisani,” Association of Italian-Canadian Writers Biennial Conference (September 2024)

“Dalla valigia alla tavola: Recipes and oral histories from Montreal’s molisani,” International Federation for Public History, Luxembourg University, Luxembourg (September 2024)

“Dalla valigia alla tavola: Recipes and oral histories from Montreal’s molisani,” Italian Studies and Food Studies, Canadian Association for Italian Studies Annual Conference, Orvieto, Italy (June 14, 2024)

“Why Family Histories Matter,” Keynote presentation at the Italian-Canadian Archives Project annual conference, Kelowna, BC (October 2023)

“Recipes Hold Memories,” First Accenti Magazine International Festival of the Arts, Accenti Magazine and University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy (June 28, 2023)

"Telling Italian-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal's Backyards and Schoolyards," part of “La communauté italienne de Montréal entre tensions et affirmation de son Identité” panel at the Canadian Association for Italian Studies Conference, online (June 11, 2021)

"Why Remember Fascism? Confronting Legacies of Fascism in Montreal,” with Luca Sollai (Université de Montréal), part of "How to remember Fascism? Politics of memory in media, monuments and archives" panel at the American Association for Italian Studies Conference, online (June 1, 2021)

"Recipes I Learned Over the Phone: Reflections," 8th annual emerging scholars symposium on oral history, digital storytelling, and creative practice, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Montreal, QC (March 19, 2021)

“The Yellow Line: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal’s Backyards and Schoolyards,” National Council on Public History Annual Meeting poster session, Hartford, CT (March 28, 2019)

“The Yellow Line: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal’s Backyards and Schoolyards,” 6th annual emerging scholars symposium on oral history, digital storytelling, and creative practice, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (March 22, 2019)

“The Yellow Line: Ripples in the Italo-Canadian Experience in Montreal,” Ripples: Underhill Graduate Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (March 7, 2019)

"I have another story: or the time I interviewed Anna Arcaro, with her daughter, her husband, my mom, and my nonna about mal'occhio," Storying our Pasts - Historical Narratives and Representations: Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (March 15-17, 2018)

"Tapping into the Maple Spring," with Nathalie Picard and Brianna Spiess, Memories in Motion: 5th annual emerging scholars symposium on oral history, digital storytelling, and creative practice, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (March 2, 2018)

"Scaccia mal’occhio: The petits récits of five local mal’occhio healers," Offstream: Minority and Popular Cultures, Graduate Student Association of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (October 13-15, 2017)

"The Yellow Line: Collective Memory and the ‘Myth of Exclusion’ in Saint-Leonard, 1945-1971," Canadian Society of Italian Studies & American Association of Italian Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (April 20, 2017)

"The Yellow Line: Collective Memory and the ‘Myth of Exclusion’ in Saint-Leonard, 1945-1971," Migrations of Culture Undergraduate Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (March 29-31, 2017)

Marsillo, Cassandra and Vee Di Gregorio. “La Festa del Grano in Montreal.” Imaginations Journal. Forthcoming 2026. Accepted.

Marsillo, Cassandra. “Book Review: Canton, Licia, Giulia De Gasperi, and Decio Cusmano, eds., A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing about Wine and Other Libations.” Italian Canadiana, Vol. 39, Winter 2025.

Marsillo, Cassandra. “Eating in Saint-Leo,” kitchen work (no. 10), Fall 2025

Marsillo, Cassandra. “Public History on Stage, ‘Mickey & Joe: Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty.’” Bridging: The IFPH Blog, October 3, 2025. https://ifph.hypotheses.org/6693

Marsillo, Cassandra. “You Want a Jos Louis?” Culinary Chronicles (5), Culinary Historians of Canada, October 2025.

Marsillo, Cassandra and Vee Di Gregorio. Dalla valigia alla tavola: A journey through Molisan culinary heritage. Montreal: Federazione delle associazioni molisane del Quebec, 2023.

Marsillo, Cassandra. "The Yellow Line: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Backyards and Schoolyards." Historical Views, Selections from Quebec Heritage News 2000-2020. Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network: 2020.

Marsillo, Cassandra. "Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 1: Nonna Lucia's Italian Birthday Cake" [link], "Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 2: Pasta e rapini" [link], and "In Backyards" [link]. Historians Cooking the Past in the Time of COVID-19. 2020.

Marsillo, Cassandra. "The Yellow Line: Italo-Canadian Oral Histories from Montreal's Backyards and Schoolyards." 2019. Quebec Heritage News, Fall 2019: 13-15.

Marsillo, Cassandra. 2017. "Scaccia mal'occhio: the petits récits of five local mal'occhio healers." Offstream. Edited by Paola Bernardini, Paolo Frascà, and Sara Galli. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2019.

Marsillo, Cassandra. 2019. “Visualizing the York Minster as Papercraft: First Response.” Epoiesen. [link]

Marsillo, Cassandra and Nathalie Picard. "In Podcasts We Trust? A Brief Survey of Canadian Historical Podcasts." 2018. International Public History, 1.2, October 2018.

Marsillo, Cassandra. "'Climbing Up the Maple Tree': Black Poetic Activism in Montreal, 1970-1980." 2017. Quebec Heritage News, Winter 2018: 24-25.

Marsillo, Cassandra. "'Une porte ouverte sur la rue': the village narrative and the Carrefour d'éducation populaire in Pointe-Saint-Charles." 2015. Historiae, volume 14, undergraduate history journal at Concordia University, 2016: 122-44.

Workshop: "Tell me a story: what is oral history and why does it matter?" presented for grade 10 students at Villa Maria High School, Montreal, QC (April 8-9, 2026)

Lecture: “Histoires italo-canadiennes : Identité et communauté après l’immigration,” for professor Luca Sollai’s course "Italie - Québec : parcours Interculturels," Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC (March 13, 2026)

Talk: “Critical Approaches to Molisana Identity,” for Professor Angela Nardozi’s ITAL 2Q93 course, Brock University, online (March 3, 2026)

Talk: “Working with Communities: A Conversation on Navigating Relationships” with Philippe Blouin, Michael Ferguson, Cassandra Marsillo, Tesfa Peterson, Léa Denieul Pinsky, and Désirée Rochat, at he Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University (February 6, 2026)

Workshop: “Cooking with COHDS: Molisan Winter Remedies” for the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, at SHIFT, Concordia University (January 30, 2026)

Lecture: “Food, identity, and the Italian-Canadian body,” for Professor Cristina Carnemolla’s Italian course, McGill University, Montreal, QC (October 21, 2025)

Lecture: "Tell me a story: what is oral history and why does it matter?" for Professor Marisa Portolese’s Portraiture and Social Identity course, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (October 3, 2025)

Talk: “How to conduct an oral history interview,” as part of Archives Out Loud: Spring Cleaning? Let's discuss some of those dusty old documents!, Italian-Canadian Archives of Quebec (May 25, 2025)

Talk: “Mickey & Joe post-show discussion,” with Michaela Di Cesare and Cristina Carnemolla, moderated by Sabrina Marandola, Leonardo Da Vinci Centre (May 24, 2025)

Talk: “Reflecting on the importance of foodways in our communities,” with Katsi’tsyo Tawnya Brant, Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian-Canadian Studies + Culinaria Research Centre, University of Toronto, Indigenous-Italian-Canadian Connections (November 28, 2024)

Talk: Settimana della cucina italiana nel mondo: “La cucina delle radici” with Anita Aloisio and Maria Giovanna Filia, Istituto italiano di cultura, Montreal, QC (November 18, 2024)

Workshop: “Making a cookbook for and from community: Reflecting and writing activities,” Workshops to build community series, Accenti Magazine (August 23, 2024)

Talk: “Archives Out Loud: Food Through the Generations,” Italian-Canadian Archives of Quebec at the Casa d’Italia and Federazione delle associazioni molisane del Quebec, Montreal, QC (April 26, 2024)

“Recipes Hold Memories,” Palates & Passages: Navigating the Intersection of Food and Oral Histories through Migration, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (April 11, 2024)

Lecture: “Histoires italo-canadiennes : Identité et communauté après l’immigration,” for professor Luca Sollai’s course "Italie - Québec : parcours Interculturels," Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC (April 9, 2024)

Workshop: "Tell me a story: what is oral history and why does it matter?" presented for grade 10 students at Villa Maria High School, Montreal, QC (April 11-12, 2023)

Lecture: “Introduction to Public and Digital History,” for professor Paolo Frascà's Italian-Canadian History course at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (March 8, 2023)

Lecture: "Scaccia mal’occhio," for professor Paolo Frascà's Italian-Canadian History course at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (November 30, 2022)

Lecture: "L'héritage des italo-canadien.ne.s de Montréal: mémoire, éducation et politique," for professor Luca Sollai's course "Italie - Québec : parcours Interculturels," Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC (December 1, 2021)

Workshop: "Tell me a story: what is oral history and why does it matter?" presented for grade 10 students at Villa Maria High School, Montreal, QC (March 31 and April 1, 2021)

Lecture: "Scaccia mal’occhio," for professor Paolo Frascà's Italian-Canadian History course at University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (February 5, 2019)

-Program committee, 13th Emerging Scholars Symposium in Oral History, Digital Storytelling and Creative Practice, COHDS, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (2025-2026)

-Reviewer for the National Council on Public History’s The Public Historian and Short Fiction in Theory & Practice

-Board of Directors, ITALUS

-Historical Advisor, Migrants of the Mediterranean

-Co-founder, Canadian Italians Against Oppression (C.I.A.O.); on hiatus

-Secretary, Board of Directors, Federazione delle Associazione Molisane del Québec (FAMQ)

-Volunteer, Associazione di fraternità Santa Maria del Molise and Associazione Sant'Anna di Cantalupo di Montreal

-Villa Charities Graduate Award, Villa Charities, Toronto, ON (2025)

-Keith Lowther Graduate Award, Concordia University (2025)

-Concordia Merit Scholarship, Concordia University (2025

-Ted Little Prize from Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (09/2024)

-Nominated for the Senate Medal in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University (2019)

-Frank H. Underhill Scholarship, Carleton University (2019)

-Bursary, Canadian Italian Business Professional Association (2018)

-Teaching Assistant Award, Department of History, Carleton University (2018)

-Lester B. Pearson Scholarship, Department of History, Carleton University (2018)

-Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2017-18)

-Shannon Scholarship in Canadian Social History, Department of History, Carleton University (2017-18)

-Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Department of History, Carleton University (2017)

-Departmental Scholarship, Department of History, Carleton University (2017-18)

-Bursary, Canadian Italian Business Professional Association (2016)

-Special Projects Grant, Fine Arts Student Alliance, Concordia University (2012-13)

-Publication Grant, Fine Arts Reading Room, Concordia University (2012)

-Fine Arts Award, CEGEP Marianopolis College (2010)

Kitchen Table Collective

Culinary Historians of Canada

Association of Italian-Canadian Writers (AICW)

Student Affiliate, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS)

International Federation for Public History (IFPH)

National Council on Public History (NCPH)

Oral History Association (OHA)

Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS)

Associazione italiani di studi canadesi (AISC)

Italian-American Studies Association (IASA)

Italian-Canadian Archives Project (ICAP)

Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism (CCMET)