Professional directory
Elenco professionale
This is an international research directory (naturally incomplete) of anthropologists and like scholars with expertise on Italy. Full contact information is included, with names hyperlinked to e-mail addresses. To have your name listed in this directory, or to update your entry, please contact us.
Questo è un indice di nominativi internazionali di antropologi esperti dell'Italia. Ogni voce include indirizzo e numero telefonico. Cliccando sul nome dell'interessato si apre una finestra di composizione email. Per aggiungere il proprio nome alla lista o per aggiornare i dati esistenti si prega di contattarci.
Maurizio Albahari
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Faculty Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
University of Notre Dame
620 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5611
USA
Tel.: (574) 631-7759
Fax: (574) 631-5760
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/MaurizioAlbahari.shtml
Specializations: Immigration in Italy; Mediterranean border enforcement; citizenship and integration; political participation in the public sphere; pluralism and Catholic-Muslim relations.
Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Profesor Investigadora Titular "C"
Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Km 1 Carretera Mérida-Tizimin, tramo Cholul
Mérida, Yucatán 97305
México
Tel.: +52 999 930 0090, ext. 2207
https://sites.google.com/site/representacionesculturales/ayora-diaz
Specializations: Mexico (Yucatan), Italy (Sardinia); pastoral production; food and culture; anthropology of science; social construction of identities; medical anthropology; economic anthropology; globalization; postcolonial studies; anthropology of consumption; tourism.
Naor Ben-Yehoyada
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
116th St & Broadway
New York, NY 10027
USA
Tel.: (617) 407-3933
Specializations: Maritime networks; labor; informal economies; food; Mediterranean; Sicily; Tunisia
Rachel Black
Assistant Professor & Academic Coordinator
Gastronomy Program
Boston University
Metropolitan College
808 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
USA
Tel.: (617) 358-6291
Fax: (617) 353-4130
http://www.bu.edu/energy/rachel-black/
Specializations: Anthropology of Food; Embodiment; Piedmont and Umbria; Agriculture; Wine; Economics; Ethnohistory.
Peter J. Brown
Professor
Departments of Anthropology and Global Health
Emory University
215 Anthropology
1557 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA
http://anthropology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/brown.html
Specializations: Medical Anthropology; History of Health; Cultural and genetic adaptations to malaria; Sardinia; male gender and health.
Eva Carlestål
Linkoping University
Department of Culture and Communication
SE-581 83 Linkoping
Sweden
Tel.: +46 (0) 13 28 18 74
http://www.liu.se/ikk/medarbetare/eva-carlestal?l=sv
Specializations: Italy; Sardinia; place; memory and forgetfulness; family and kinship; house; women.
Silvio Carta
Member of B-Film, University of Birmingham PhD Alumnus
Department of Modern Languages (Italian Studies)
United Kingdom
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/italian/postgraduate/profiles/silvio-carta.aspx
Specializations: Sardinia; Visual anthropology; Documentary; Ethnographic film; Film Studies; Italian Studies.
Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11210
USA
Tel.: (718) 951-5000 ex. 3803
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=547
Specializations: linguistic anthropology; language shift and revitalization; language ideology; gender; materiality; social and economic transformation; anthropology of food; northern Italy/Lombardy.
Jeffrey E. Cole
Professor of Anthropology
Connecticut College
New London, CT
USA
Tel.: 860-439-2231
http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/cole.html
Specializations: Immigration; race; domestic work; agriculture; trafficking; Sicily.
Maurizio Coppola
PHD Candidate
EHESS, LAHIC-IIAC
Paris, France
http://www.iiac.cnrs.fr/spip.php?page=article-annuaire2&id_article=918
[email protected]
Specializations: History of Anthropology; Anthropology of Literature; Political Anthropology, Italy.
Carole M. Counihan
Professor of Anthropology
Editor-in-Chief, Food and Foodways
Sociology-Anthropology Department
Millersville University
29 E. Frederick St.
Millersville, PA 17551
USA
Tel.: 717-872-3575
Fax: 717-872-3942
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~counihan
Specializations: Food; gender; identity; food activism; ethnography; Tuscany and Sardinia
Marco De Biase
Aspirant F.R.S.-FNRS
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Institut de Sociologie
GERME
avenue Jeanne, 44 – CP124
1050 Bruxelles
S14-214
Belgium
Tél : 02/650 33 26
Fax : 02/650 46 59
http://germe.ulb.ac.be/users/25/18/MDebiase.html
Specializations: urban and social ethnography; mafia studies; migration studies; social movements; Italian migration; informal economies; global mobilities; social struggles.
Maria-Pia Di Bella
Senior Researcher
IRIS-EHESS (Paris)
96 Boulevard Raspail
Paris 75006
France
http://iris.ehess.fr/document.php?id=400
Specializations: Southern Italian culture and society; Sicily; religious innovation and Pentecostalism; violence and honor systems; legal studies.
Michael A. Di Giovine
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Old Library - West Chester University
775 S. Church Street
West Chester, PA 19383
USA
www.michaeldigiovine.com
Specializations: modern Italy; Southern Italy; Catholicism and popular piety; global mobilities (tourism and pilgrimage, Italian-American immigration); heritage discourse and practices; food and foodways; the cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.
Nick Dines
Research Fellow in Sociology
Department of Criminology and Sociology
Middlesex University
The Burroughs, London NW4 6BT
United Kingdom
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/dines-nick
https://mdx.academia.edu/NickDines
Specializations: Urban sociology and urban history; applications of ethnography and oral history in urban studies; public space; social movements; urban regeneration and gentrification; international migration; the Mezzogiorno (with a particular focus on Naples); Italian politics; the politics and representation of the lumpenproletariat; critical heritage studies (with a focus on tangible heritage and historic centres); Italian organized crime.
Whitney Easton
PhD Candidate
Emory University
Department of Anthropology
1557 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA
Specializations: Agrarian change, Neo-rurality and new rural identities, Agritourism, Anthropology of food and agriculture, Migration, Tuscany
Barbara Faedda
Associate Director
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027
USA
Tel.: (212) 854-2306
Fax: (212) 854-8479
http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu
Simone Ghezzi
Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca
Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale
Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8
U7 - III piano - stanza 348
Milano 20126
Italy
Tel.: 011-39-02-6448-7480
http://www.sociologia.unimib.it/default.asp?idPagine=357&funzione=scheda_persona&personale=273
Specializations: Family business; entrepreneurship; informal economy; economy and culture; local development; artisanal labour; kin-based exchange networks; embedded economy.
Cristiana Giordano
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
USA
http://anthropology.ucdavis.edu/people/cgiordan
Specializations: Medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, anthropology of migration and citizenship, humanitarianism and human rights, anthropology of the state, anthropology of the law and medicine, anthropology of Europe and the Mediterranean, theories of translation and the unconscious, and ethnographic play writing.
Salvatore Giusto
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
19 Russell St.
Toronto, ON M5S 2S2
Canada
Specializations: Economic Anthropology, Political Anthropology, Commodification of Aesthetics, Organized Crime, Neoliberalism, Italy, North America, the EU.
Emanuela Guano
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
Georgia State University
33 Gilmer Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
USA
Tel.: (404) 413-5152
Fax: (404) 413-5159
http://anthropology.gsu.edu/profile/emanuela-guano/
Specializations: Spatial theory and urban processes; public and visual culture; modernity, globalization, and transnationalism; Argentina; Italy.
Alessandra Guigoni
Filosofia e Teoria delle Scienze Umane
University of Cagliari
Via Università, 40
Cagliari 09124
Italy
https://etnografia.academia.edu/alessandraguigoni
Specializations: Anthropology of food; rural development; agricultural biodiversity; Sardinia.
Nicholas DeMaria Harney
Professor and Chair
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, ON N9B 3P4
Canada
http://www1.uwindsor.ca/sociology/faculty-harney
Specializations: Economic life; diasporas; transnationalism; ethnic and migration studies; critical perspectives on global processes and urban studies; North America (Canada) and Europe (Italy).
Tracey Heatherington
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
290 Sabin Hall, PO Box 413
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
USA
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/anthropology/faculty/heatherington.cfm
Specializations: Sardinia; environmental anthropology; applied anthropology; political ecology of conservation; ethnography of environmental partnerships; post-national frameworks of environmental governance.
Paolo Heywood
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
CB2 3RF
www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-paolo-heywood
&
Junior Research Fellow
Homerton College
Cambridge
CB2 8PH
www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/academicstaff/paoloheywood
Specializations: Italy, Europe, the anthropology of ethics, gender and sexuality, identity and difference, activism, Catholicism, philosophy and anthropology.
Adam Kersch
Doctoral Student
Mellon Fellow in Comparative Border Studies
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
USA
Specializations: Medical anthropology; migration; borders; humanitarianism; anthropology of policy; identity.
David Kertzer
Provost
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
USA
http://www.davidkertzer.com/
Specializations: Politics and culture; European social history; political economy and family systems; nineteenth-century Italian social history and contemporary Italian society and politics; history of Vatican relations with the Jews and with the Italian state.
Gregory Kohler
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Irvine
3151 Social Sciences Plaza A
Irvine, CA 92697
USA
Specializations: agriculture; corporations; food; globalization; language; law; Sardinia; visual anthropology
Elizabeth L. Krause
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Machmer Hall 205
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
240 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9278
USA
Tel.: (413) 577-1205
Fax: (413) 545-9494
http://blogs.umass.edu/ekrause/
Specializations: Biopolitics of low fertility; social memory and historical anthropology; political economy and economic anthropology; anthropology of embodiment; ethnography and writing culture; immigration.
Andrea R. Leone-Pizzighella
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Educational Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA
Tel.: (617) 447-1258
https://upenn.academia.edu/ALeone
Specializations: Language ideology, policy, and education in Italy; Social class, education, and stances toward "dialettofonia"; Language and interaction in educational spaces; Italian education systems; Umbria; Veneto.
Lilith Mahmud
Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology
Department of Women's Studies
3214 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697-2655
USA
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5546
Specializations: gender, secrecy, elites, cultural capital, Freemasonry, anthropology of organizations, transparency, conspiracies, Occidentalism.
Brigida Marovelli
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Brunel University
Kingston Ln, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Tel.: 0044 (0) 79 03 04 85 91
http://brunel.academia.edu/BrigidaMarovelli
Specializations: Urban Food Markets; Modernization and Tradition; Place, History and Landscape; Sicily; Anthropology of the Senses
Sam Migliore
Professor
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666-72nd Avenue
Surrey, BC V3W 2M8
Canada
http://www.kpu.ca/arts/anthropology/faculty/sam-migliore
Specializations: Medical and visual anthropology; aging and well-being; Sicilian religious feasts; Sicilian immigration to Canada; Italian-Canadians.
Noelle J. Molé
Senior Lecturer
New York University
Expository Writing Program
411 Lafayette Street 10003
New York, NY
USA
Specializations: neoliberalism and labor; affect, medicine, and the body; knowledge production; science and the supernatural; Catholicism; Padua and the Veneto
Cristina Moretti
Centre for Imaginative Ethnography
imaginativeethnography.org
Instructor,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
Specialization: Italy, urban anthropology, public space, visual anthropology, ethnographic methodologies
Andrea Muehlebach
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto-Mississauga
19 Russell St.
Toronto, ON M5S 2S2
Canada
http://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/people/faculty-1/faculty-profiles/andrea-muehlebach
Specializations: Sociocultural anthropology; social theory; anthropology of the state and citizenship; ethics and personhood; neoliberalism; labour and affect; welfare; European public culture; Italy.
Giacomo Orsini
PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
(Visiting scholar, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Pleinlaan 5, 1st floor B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
Cell: 0032485563415
Specializations: maritime culture and society; migrations; border studies; European studies; postcolonial studies; Lampedusa; Italy.
Berardino Palumbo
Professor of Social Anthropology
Director of the Social Work Program
Dept. of Human and Social Sciences
University of Messina
Via Cannizzaro 278
98100 Messina
Italy
Specializations: Kinship; ritual and religion; gender; power, historical memory; heritage construction, cultural objectivation, politics of culture, public culture and political systems; neoliberalism; mafia; necropolitics; anthropology of the nation-state and of the institutions; Italy; Sicily.
Giovanna Parmigiani
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
19 Russell Street
Toronto, ON M5S 2S2
Canada
Specializations: Affects; emotions; violence; women; political activism; anthropology of ethics; Italy (Salento).
Sabina Perrino
Research Affiliate
Department of Anthropology / Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan
812 East Washington St.
4037 MLB, Box 1275
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
USA
Specializations: Linguistic anthropology; narrative analysis; code-switching; dialect revitalization; poetics; immigration; transnationalism; Northern Italy (Veneto).
Jason Pine
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Media, Society and the Arts
State University of New York - Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
USA
Tel.: 917-251-6627
http://openscholar.purchase.edu/jason_pine/
Specializations: aesthetics, affect and alternative economies and organized crime; melodrama; masculinities; music, video, television and piracy.
Stavroula Pipyrou
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife, KY16 8HA
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1334 461960
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/dept/staff/?staffid=217
Specializations: Linguistic Minorities; Mafia and 'Illegal' Organisations; Civil Society; Power and Governance; Kinship and Relatedness; Refugee Identity; Performance and Nationalism; Irony; Italy; Greece; Turkey
Thomas J. Puleo
Assistant Professor and Honors Faculty
School of Politics and Global Studies
Arizona State University
POB 873902
Tempe, AZ 85287
USA
Tel.: 480-727-0790
https://webapp4.asu.edu/myasu/faculty/profile
Research interests: Space, place and landscape; Mediterranean, especially Sicily; cultural responses to natural disaster, especially the Sicilian Baroque.
Theodoros Rakopoulos
Post-doctoral fellow
http://www.uib.no/en/persons/Theodoros.Rakopoulos
Social Anthropology Department
Fosswinckelsgt. 6
postboks 7802,
5020 Bergen
Norway
Specializations: Sicily; mafia and antimafia; land and property management; labour and divisions of labour; home and work; cooperatives and cooperativism; food and food activism; historical and economic anthropology; solidarity; austerity and structural adjustment; Greece.
Violetta Ravagnoli
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Emanuel College
400 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
USA
http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/violetta-ravagnoli.html
Specializations: Chinese immigration in Italy; overseas Chinese; networks and transnationalism; Chinese history; ethnicity and identity; Rome and Wenzhou; citizenship.
Roberta Ricucci
Associate Professor
Dept. of Culture, Politics and Society
University of Turin
Lungo Dora Siena, 100
10153 Turin
ITALY
http://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?roberta.ricucci#profilo
US
Center Affiliate @ Center for the Study of Religion and Society
[email protected]
https://csrs.nd.edu/people/visiting-scholars/
Specializations: migration, social inclusion, children, Muslims, religious pluralism, Islamic finance, Western countries
Pietro Saitta
Centro Interuniversitario per le Ricerche sulla Sociologia del Diritto, dell'Informazione e delle Istituzioni Giuridiche
University of Messina
Via T. Cannizaro, 278
Messina 98122
Italy
Tel.: (+39) 090 641 1070
http://www.cirsdig.it/
Specializations: Sociology of law; multiculturalism; immigration; ethnicity and identity; Roma; Sicily.
Elena Sischarenco
Associate at the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies
Department of Social Anthropology
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife, KY16 8HA
United Kingdom
Specializations: knowledge exchange, social networks, migration, trust, ethnography of Italy, informal relations, corruption, media and perception, identity, vulnerability, crisis, risk, entrepreneurship, construction business.
Antonio Sorge
Department of Anthropology
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/laps/anth/faculty/Sorge/Sorge.html
Specializations: Sardinia, Sicily, Mediterranean; historical anthropology; violence and honor; masculinities; citizenship, belonging, and social exclusion; theory and practice of ethnographic research.
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
Profesora Investigadora Titular "C"
Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Carretera a Tizimin Km 1
Mérida, Yucatán 97305
México
Tel.: +52 999 930 0090
https://sites.google.com/site/representacionesculturales/vargas-cetina
Specializations: Mexico, Canada, Italy (Sardinia); contemporary life and culture; anthropology of organizations; rural cooperatives; anthropology of performance; politics of sound and music; cyberanthropology and online social networks.
Ann E. Wand
DPhil Candidate
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, ISCA
University of Oxford
Oxford OX1 2JD
United Kingdom
http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/current-students/our-dphil-students/#c5497
Specializations: Second language acquisition; ethnolinguistics; language identity; linguistic division in South Tyrol; International language policy and application; border relations between Austria and Italy.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Faculty Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
University of Notre Dame
620 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5611
USA
Tel.: (574) 631-7759
Fax: (574) 631-5760
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/MaurizioAlbahari.shtml
Specializations: Immigration in Italy; Mediterranean border enforcement; citizenship and integration; political participation in the public sphere; pluralism and Catholic-Muslim relations.
Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Profesor Investigadora Titular "C"
Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Km 1 Carretera Mérida-Tizimin, tramo Cholul
Mérida, Yucatán 97305
México
Tel.: +52 999 930 0090, ext. 2207
https://sites.google.com/site/representacionesculturales/ayora-diaz
Specializations: Mexico (Yucatan), Italy (Sardinia); pastoral production; food and culture; anthropology of science; social construction of identities; medical anthropology; economic anthropology; globalization; postcolonial studies; anthropology of consumption; tourism.
Naor Ben-Yehoyada
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Columbia University
116th St & Broadway
New York, NY 10027
USA
Tel.: (617) 407-3933
Specializations: Maritime networks; labor; informal economies; food; Mediterranean; Sicily; Tunisia
Rachel Black
Assistant Professor & Academic Coordinator
Gastronomy Program
Boston University
Metropolitan College
808 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
USA
Tel.: (617) 358-6291
Fax: (617) 353-4130
http://www.bu.edu/energy/rachel-black/
Specializations: Anthropology of Food; Embodiment; Piedmont and Umbria; Agriculture; Wine; Economics; Ethnohistory.
Peter J. Brown
Professor
Departments of Anthropology and Global Health
Emory University
215 Anthropology
1557 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA
http://anthropology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/brown.html
Specializations: Medical Anthropology; History of Health; Cultural and genetic adaptations to malaria; Sardinia; male gender and health.
Eva Carlestål
Linkoping University
Department of Culture and Communication
SE-581 83 Linkoping
Sweden
Tel.: +46 (0) 13 28 18 74
http://www.liu.se/ikk/medarbetare/eva-carlestal?l=sv
Specializations: Italy; Sardinia; place; memory and forgetfulness; family and kinship; house; women.
Silvio Carta
Member of B-Film, University of Birmingham PhD Alumnus
Department of Modern Languages (Italian Studies)
United Kingdom
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/italian/postgraduate/profiles/silvio-carta.aspx
Specializations: Sardinia; Visual anthropology; Documentary; Ethnographic film; Film Studies; Italian Studies.
Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center CUNY
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11210
USA
Tel.: (718) 951-5000 ex. 3803
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=547
Specializations: linguistic anthropology; language shift and revitalization; language ideology; gender; materiality; social and economic transformation; anthropology of food; northern Italy/Lombardy.
Jeffrey E. Cole
Professor of Anthropology
Connecticut College
New London, CT
USA
Tel.: 860-439-2231
http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/cole.html
Specializations: Immigration; race; domestic work; agriculture; trafficking; Sicily.
Maurizio Coppola
PHD Candidate
EHESS, LAHIC-IIAC
Paris, France
http://www.iiac.cnrs.fr/spip.php?page=article-annuaire2&id_article=918
[email protected]
Specializations: History of Anthropology; Anthropology of Literature; Political Anthropology, Italy.
Carole M. Counihan
Professor of Anthropology
Editor-in-Chief, Food and Foodways
Sociology-Anthropology Department
Millersville University
29 E. Frederick St.
Millersville, PA 17551
USA
Tel.: 717-872-3575
Fax: 717-872-3942
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~counihan
Specializations: Food; gender; identity; food activism; ethnography; Tuscany and Sardinia
Marco De Biase
Aspirant F.R.S.-FNRS
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Institut de Sociologie
GERME
avenue Jeanne, 44 – CP124
1050 Bruxelles
S14-214
Belgium
Tél : 02/650 33 26
Fax : 02/650 46 59
http://germe.ulb.ac.be/users/25/18/MDebiase.html
Specializations: urban and social ethnography; mafia studies; migration studies; social movements; Italian migration; informal economies; global mobilities; social struggles.
Maria-Pia Di Bella
Senior Researcher
IRIS-EHESS (Paris)
96 Boulevard Raspail
Paris 75006
France
http://iris.ehess.fr/document.php?id=400
Specializations: Southern Italian culture and society; Sicily; religious innovation and Pentecostalism; violence and honor systems; legal studies.
Michael A. Di Giovine
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Old Library - West Chester University
775 S. Church Street
West Chester, PA 19383
USA
www.michaeldigiovine.com
Specializations: modern Italy; Southern Italy; Catholicism and popular piety; global mobilities (tourism and pilgrimage, Italian-American immigration); heritage discourse and practices; food and foodways; the cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.
Nick Dines
Research Fellow in Sociology
Department of Criminology and Sociology
Middlesex University
The Burroughs, London NW4 6BT
United Kingdom
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/dines-nick
https://mdx.academia.edu/NickDines
Specializations: Urban sociology and urban history; applications of ethnography and oral history in urban studies; public space; social movements; urban regeneration and gentrification; international migration; the Mezzogiorno (with a particular focus on Naples); Italian politics; the politics and representation of the lumpenproletariat; critical heritage studies (with a focus on tangible heritage and historic centres); Italian organized crime.
Whitney Easton
PhD Candidate
Emory University
Department of Anthropology
1557 Dickey Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30322
USA
Specializations: Agrarian change, Neo-rurality and new rural identities, Agritourism, Anthropology of food and agriculture, Migration, Tuscany
Barbara Faedda
Associate Director
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027
USA
Tel.: (212) 854-2306
Fax: (212) 854-8479
http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu
Simone Ghezzi
Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca
Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale
Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8
U7 - III piano - stanza 348
Milano 20126
Italy
Tel.: 011-39-02-6448-7480
http://www.sociologia.unimib.it/default.asp?idPagine=357&funzione=scheda_persona&personale=273
Specializations: Family business; entrepreneurship; informal economy; economy and culture; local development; artisanal labour; kin-based exchange networks; embedded economy.
Cristiana Giordano
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
USA
http://anthropology.ucdavis.edu/people/cgiordan
Specializations: Medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, anthropology of migration and citizenship, humanitarianism and human rights, anthropology of the state, anthropology of the law and medicine, anthropology of Europe and the Mediterranean, theories of translation and the unconscious, and ethnographic play writing.
Salvatore Giusto
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
19 Russell St.
Toronto, ON M5S 2S2
Canada
Specializations: Economic Anthropology, Political Anthropology, Commodification of Aesthetics, Organized Crime, Neoliberalism, Italy, North America, the EU.
Emanuela Guano
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
Georgia State University
33 Gilmer Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
USA
Tel.: (404) 413-5152
Fax: (404) 413-5159
http://anthropology.gsu.edu/profile/emanuela-guano/
Specializations: Spatial theory and urban processes; public and visual culture; modernity, globalization, and transnationalism; Argentina; Italy.
Alessandra Guigoni
Filosofia e Teoria delle Scienze Umane
University of Cagliari
Via Università, 40
Cagliari 09124
Italy
https://etnografia.academia.edu/alessandraguigoni
Specializations: Anthropology of food; rural development; agricultural biodiversity; Sardinia.
Nicholas DeMaria Harney
Professor and Chair
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, ON N9B 3P4
Canada
http://www1.uwindsor.ca/sociology/faculty-harney
Specializations: Economic life; diasporas; transnationalism; ethnic and migration studies; critical perspectives on global processes and urban studies; North America (Canada) and Europe (Italy).
Tracey Heatherington
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
290 Sabin Hall, PO Box 413
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
USA
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/anthropology/faculty/heatherington.cfm
Specializations: Sardinia; environmental anthropology; applied anthropology; political ecology of conservation; ethnography of environmental partnerships; post-national frameworks of environmental governance.
Paolo Heywood
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
CB2 3RF
www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-paolo-heywood
&
Junior Research Fellow
Homerton College
Cambridge
CB2 8PH
www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/academicstaff/paoloheywood
Specializations: Italy, Europe, the anthropology of ethics, gender and sexuality, identity and difference, activism, Catholicism, philosophy and anthropology.
Adam Kersch
Doctoral Student
Mellon Fellow in Comparative Border Studies
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
USA
Specializations: Medical anthropology; migration; borders; humanitarianism; anthropology of policy; identity.
David Kertzer
Provost
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
USA
http://www.davidkertzer.com/
Specializations: Politics and culture; European social history; political economy and family systems; nineteenth-century Italian social history and contemporary Italian society and politics; history of Vatican relations with the Jews and with the Italian state.
Gregory Kohler
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Irvine
3151 Social Sciences Plaza A
Irvine, CA 92697
USA
Specializations: agriculture; corporations; food; globalization; language; law; Sardinia; visual anthropology
Elizabeth L. Krause
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Machmer Hall 205
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
240 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9278
USA
Tel.: (413) 577-1205
Fax: (413) 545-9494
http://blogs.umass.edu/ekrause/
Specializations: Biopolitics of low fertility; social memory and historical anthropology; political economy and economic anthropology; anthropology of embodiment; ethnography and writing culture; immigration.
Andrea R. Leone-Pizzighella
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Educational Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA
Tel.: (617) 447-1258
https://upenn.academia.edu/ALeone
Specializations: Language ideology, policy, and education in Italy; Social class, education, and stances toward "dialettofonia"; Language and interaction in educational spaces; Italian education systems; Umbria; Veneto.
Lilith Mahmud
Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology
Department of Women's Studies
3214 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697-2655
USA
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5546
Specializations: gender, secrecy, elites, cultural capital, Freemasonry, anthropology of organizations, transparency, conspiracies, Occidentalism.
Brigida Marovelli
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Brunel University
Kingston Ln, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Tel.: 0044 (0) 79 03 04 85 91
http://brunel.academia.edu/BrigidaMarovelli
Specializations: Urban Food Markets; Modernization and Tradition; Place, History and Landscape; Sicily; Anthropology of the Senses
Sam Migliore
Professor
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666-72nd Avenue
Surrey, BC V3W 2M8
Canada
http://www.kpu.ca/arts/anthropology/faculty/sam-migliore
Specializations: Medical and visual anthropology; aging and well-being; Sicilian religious feasts; Sicilian immigration to Canada; Italian-Canadians.
Noelle J. Molé
Senior Lecturer
New York University
Expository Writing Program
411 Lafayette Street 10003
New York, NY
USA
Specializations: neoliberalism and labor; affect, medicine, and the body; knowledge production; science and the supernatural; Catholicism; Padua and the Veneto
Cristina Moretti
Centre for Imaginative Ethnography
imaginativeethnography.org
Instructor,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
Specialization: Italy, urban anthropology, public space, visual anthropology, ethnographic methodologies
Andrea Muehlebach
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto-Mississauga
19 Russell St.
Toronto, ON M5S 2S2
Canada
http://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/people/faculty-1/faculty-profiles/andrea-muehlebach
Specializations: Sociocultural anthropology; social theory; anthropology of the state and citizenship; ethics and personhood; neoliberalism; labour and affect; welfare; European public culture; Italy.
Giacomo Orsini
PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
(Visiting scholar, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Pleinlaan 5, 1st floor B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
Cell: 0032485563415
Specializations: maritime culture and society; migrations; border studies; European studies; postcolonial studies; Lampedusa; Italy.
Berardino Palumbo
Professor of Social Anthropology
Director of the Social Work Program
Dept. of Human and Social Sciences
University of Messina
Via Cannizzaro 278
98100 Messina
Italy
Specializations: Kinship; ritual and religion; gender; power, historical memory; heritage construction, cultural objectivation, politics of culture, public culture and political systems; neoliberalism; mafia; necropolitics; anthropology of the nation-state and of the institutions; Italy; Sicily.
Giovanna Parmigiani
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
19 Russell Street
Toronto, ON M5S 2S2
Canada
Specializations: Affects; emotions; violence; women; political activism; anthropology of ethics; Italy (Salento).
Sabina Perrino
Research Affiliate
Department of Anthropology / Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan
812 East Washington St.
4037 MLB, Box 1275
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
USA
Specializations: Linguistic anthropology; narrative analysis; code-switching; dialect revitalization; poetics; immigration; transnationalism; Northern Italy (Veneto).
Jason Pine
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Media, Society and the Arts
State University of New York - Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
USA
Tel.: 917-251-6627
http://openscholar.purchase.edu/jason_pine/
Specializations: aesthetics, affect and alternative economies and organized crime; melodrama; masculinities; music, video, television and piracy.
Stavroula Pipyrou
Lecturer in Social Anthropology
School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife, KY16 8HA
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1334 461960
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/dept/staff/?staffid=217
Specializations: Linguistic Minorities; Mafia and 'Illegal' Organisations; Civil Society; Power and Governance; Kinship and Relatedness; Refugee Identity; Performance and Nationalism; Irony; Italy; Greece; Turkey
Thomas J. Puleo
Assistant Professor and Honors Faculty
School of Politics and Global Studies
Arizona State University
POB 873902
Tempe, AZ 85287
USA
Tel.: 480-727-0790
https://webapp4.asu.edu/myasu/faculty/profile
Research interests: Space, place and landscape; Mediterranean, especially Sicily; cultural responses to natural disaster, especially the Sicilian Baroque.
Theodoros Rakopoulos
Post-doctoral fellow
http://www.uib.no/en/persons/Theodoros.Rakopoulos
Social Anthropology Department
Fosswinckelsgt. 6
postboks 7802,
5020 Bergen
Norway
Specializations: Sicily; mafia and antimafia; land and property management; labour and divisions of labour; home and work; cooperatives and cooperativism; food and food activism; historical and economic anthropology; solidarity; austerity and structural adjustment; Greece.
Violetta Ravagnoli
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Emanuel College
400 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
USA
http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/violetta-ravagnoli.html
Specializations: Chinese immigration in Italy; overseas Chinese; networks and transnationalism; Chinese history; ethnicity and identity; Rome and Wenzhou; citizenship.
Roberta Ricucci
Associate Professor
Dept. of Culture, Politics and Society
University of Turin
Lungo Dora Siena, 100
10153 Turin
ITALY
http://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?roberta.ricucci#profilo
US
Center Affiliate @ Center for the Study of Religion and Society
[email protected]
https://csrs.nd.edu/people/visiting-scholars/
Specializations: migration, social inclusion, children, Muslims, religious pluralism, Islamic finance, Western countries
Pietro Saitta
Centro Interuniversitario per le Ricerche sulla Sociologia del Diritto, dell'Informazione e delle Istituzioni Giuridiche
University of Messina
Via T. Cannizaro, 278
Messina 98122
Italy
Tel.: (+39) 090 641 1070
http://www.cirsdig.it/
Specializations: Sociology of law; multiculturalism; immigration; ethnicity and identity; Roma; Sicily.
Elena Sischarenco
Associate at the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies
Department of Social Anthropology
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife, KY16 8HA
United Kingdom
Specializations: knowledge exchange, social networks, migration, trust, ethnography of Italy, informal relations, corruption, media and perception, identity, vulnerability, crisis, risk, entrepreneurship, construction business.
Antonio Sorge
Department of Anthropology
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/laps/anth/faculty/Sorge/Sorge.html
Specializations: Sardinia, Sicily, Mediterranean; historical anthropology; violence and honor; masculinities; citizenship, belonging, and social exclusion; theory and practice of ethnographic research.
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
Profesora Investigadora Titular "C"
Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Carretera a Tizimin Km 1
Mérida, Yucatán 97305
México
Tel.: +52 999 930 0090
https://sites.google.com/site/representacionesculturales/vargas-cetina
Specializations: Mexico, Canada, Italy (Sardinia); contemporary life and culture; anthropology of organizations; rural cooperatives; anthropology of performance; politics of sound and music; cyberanthropology and online social networks.
Ann E. Wand
DPhil Candidate
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, ISCA
University of Oxford
Oxford OX1 2JD
United Kingdom
http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/current-students/our-dphil-students/#c5497
Specializations: Second language acquisition; ethnolinguistics; language identity; linguistic division in South Tyrol; International language policy and application; border relations between Austria and Italy.