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Barbara Faedda
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Columbia University |
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Biography
Barbara Faedda is the Associate Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Legal Anthropology and Social Science from the "S. Orsola Benincasa" University in Naples after studying at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" where she received her Laurea in Lettere. She has also studied at the Summer Institute of International & Comparative Law in Paris, Cornell Law School, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and at Boston University as a visiting scholar in 2002 and 2003. She is co-author of the book Luoghi di frontiera. Antropologia delle mediazioni and author of I mille volti della moda, and is a contributor to various books and manuscripts from Il Mulino and other publishers. Her recent publications include: "Emozioni e paure. Come la politica utilizza l'Altro", in Politica ed emozioni nella storia d'Italia dal 1848 ad oggi, P.Morris, F.Ricatti, M.Seymour, eds., Viella 2012; and "We are not racists, but we do not want immigrants", in Integration, Globalization and Racialization: Theories and Perspectives on Immigration, J.Capetillo, G.Jacobs, P.Kretsedemas, eds., Routledge 2012. She is a member of the editorial staff of the journal Gli Stranieri, Rivista di studi, giurisprudenza e legislazione, the law journal Diritto & Diritti, and of www.immigrazione.it, the professional journal of law and social sciences of the "Roma Tre" University Law School. Her professional background also includes experience in an Italian high-fashion firm in Rome from 1996 to 1998 and a research interest in advertising, communication, food, and visual culture. Dr. Faedda lectured for the University of Pisa's "Expert in Immigration" master program and is a member of the Immigration Research Group at Columbia University's Council for European Studies. She is currently working on a manuscript on the Somali Italian minority.
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