Annamaria Davine is an honorary research fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, and a member of the Professional Historians’ Association. Her main area of interest is Italian migration, particularly that of small groups. In 2006, her book ‘Vegnimo da Conco ma simo Veneti’: a study of the immigration and settlement of the Veneti in Central and West Gippsland 1925-1970 was published by the Italian Australian Institute at La Trobe University, Bundoora. The same year, she completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and a book, ‘Neither here nor there’: Italians and Swiss-Italians on the Walhalla goldfield 1865-1915, based on her thesis is due to be published in late 2008. Anna has just finished writing the history of the Pastorelle Sisters, an Italian Congregation of religious women who arrived in Australia after the Second World War.