Research and professional experience (2004-2022)
• From 09.2021/12.2021 and from 10.06.2022/02.09.2022: Visiting Marie Curie Staff Member, Center for Social Science, Tbilisi, Progetto SHADOW (MSCA-RISE call H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017
• 09.2017/present: Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, University of Messina (from 01.07.2024: National Scientific qualification as Full Professor in the Italian higher education system for the academic disciplinary fields of Demography, Ethnography, and Anthropology)
• 09.2011 – 08.2017: Post-doc research fellow (Programme ‘Rita Levi Montalcini’): ‘Land transactions in South Lebanon’, University of Pisa
• 10.2016 – 02.2017: Visiting Staff Member, Queens’ University, Belfast (NI)
• 04.2016 –07.2016: Visiting Staff Member, Séminaire d'Anthropologie Sociale, University of Fribourg (CH)
• 01.2013 – 12.2015: Participant in the Marie Curie Project PIRSES-GA-2013-318961 (PSDEV): ‘Imagining Development: A multidisciplinary and multilevel analysis of development policies and their effect in the post-socialist world’. Visiting lecturer at Tbilisi State University, Georgia
• 03.2008 – 04.2009: Post-doc research fellow, University of Fribourg - including a Swiss National Foundation Individual Grant ‘Political Mobilization in Turkey’, Adnan Menderes University, Turkey
• 11.2005 – 11.2007: Post-doc Marie Curie Intra-European research fellow, University of Kent (UK): ‘Martyrdom in the Middle East’, by reference to Christian enclaves in Lebanon, Israel, Occupied Territories, Eastern Anatolia
• 05.2005 – 10.2005: Research fellow, Institute of Political Studies San Pio V, Rome (I): ‘Martyrdom as a political strategy in Lebanon: Dbayyé refugee camp’
• 03.2003 – 03.2004: Pre-doc Marie Curie research fellow, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Londonderry (NI)

Insegnamento (2009-22)
2020/present: Antropologia culturale (6 cfu, in Italiano), BA Course in Information Science: Journalistic Technic and Social Media, Dept. of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, Uni. of Messina
2019/present: Lecturer in ‘Cultural Anthropology’ (1 ect, in Italian), BA Course in Nursing Studies, Uni. of Messina
2018/present: Lecturer in ‘Cultural Anthropology’ (6 ects, in Italian), Master Programme in Italian language and culture for foreigners, University for Foreigners "Dante Alighieri" of Reggio Calabria and Uni. of Messina
2017/present: Lecturer in ‘Cultural Anthropology’ (6 ects, in Italian), Dept. of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, Uni. of Messina
2019/present: Lecturer in ‘Cultural Anthropology’ (6 ects, in Italian), FIT Programme, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria
2017/19: Lecturer in ‘Fundamentals of Cultural Anthropology’ (6 ects, in Italian), FIT Programme, Uni. of Messina
2016/17: Lecturer in ‘Divided Societies and Fundamentalism’ (3 credits) (in English), Dept. of Social Anthropology, Uni. of Fribourg
2016/17: Lecturer in ‘Power-Sharing, Multiculturalism and International Cooperation’ (6 credits) and ‘Conflict Analysis in Divided Societies’ (6 credits in English, blended learning), Inter-dept. Ma Programme in Sciences for Peace, University of Pisa
2013/16: Lecturer in ‘Power-Sharing, Multiculturalism and International Cooperation’ (6 credits) (in English), Ma Programme in Sciences for Peace, Uni. of Pisa
2012/15: Lecturer in ‘Cultural Anthropology’ (6 credits in Italian), Dept. of Social and Political Science, Uni. of Pisa
2012/13: Lecturer in ‘Anthropology of Violence’, MA Programme on Conflict Management & Mediation, Uni. of Pisa
2012/13: Lecturer in ‘Equality and discriminatory dynamics’ (in Italian), MA Programme in Management of Participatory Processes, University of Pisa and University of Florence
2011/12: Lecturer in ‘Anthropology of Violence’ (in Italian), Dept. of Social and Political Science, University of Pisa
2010/11: Lecturer in ‘Religious Conflicts in Contemporary World: an anthropological perspective’ & ‘Religions and Conflict’ (in English), Dept. of Social Anthropology, Uni. of Fribourg
2009/10: Lecturer in ‘Power Sharing and Multiculturalism’ and ‘Divided Societies in Contemporary World’ (in English), Dept. of Social Anthropology, Uni. of Fribourg

Affiliations
- Permanent Visiting Professor in ‘Interculturality, Good Governance and Sustainable Development’, UNESCO Chair, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (Romania)
- Responsible for the University of Messina for the Mare Curie ‘SHADOW’ project, MSCA-RISE call H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 (grant agreement No. 778188)
- Member of the Doctoral Committee of the Doctoral Program in Historical, Archaeological and Philosophical Sciences, Department of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, University of Messina; Member of other Doctoral Commissions: PhD in Politics and Governance, Department Governance, Law and Society, University of Tallinn (Estonia); PhD in Pakistan Studies, Directorate of Advanced Studies, University of Peshawar (Pakistan)
- President Commission Tourist Guide Univeryity of Messina, (D.A. Sicilian Region, N. 2490, 03.11.2020)
- Director Ethno-anthropological Museum of Piraino, Messina (University of Messina, Prot. N. 0072681, 02.20.2018; Municipal Council of Piraino Resolution N. 248, 12.10.2018)
- Head of the Messina branch of ASAFAL (Interuniversity centre for comparative areas studies: Asia, Africa and Latin America – University of Siena, University of Foreigners of Perugia, University of Messina)
- Executive Secretary Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA), International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
- Bulletin Co-editor Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA), International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
- Co-editor Series Asintoti (Armando Siciliano Editore)
- Ordinary Enrolment Italian Society for Authors and Publishers (DOR: author of literary part)
- International project reviewer: Independent Research Fund Denmark; Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research
- Revisore progetti internazionali: Ministero dell’Educazione (Danimarca); Fondo Nazionale Svizzero (Svizzera); Ministero Università e Ricerca (Italia); Revisore per altri enti pubblici: Università del Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
- Reviewer: Anthropology Today, International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society, National Identities, Post-Socialist Studies Series (I.B.Tauris), Turkish Studies, Peshawar Islamicus, Journal of ICT Research in Africa and the Middle East (IJICTRAME), Central Asia, AI-IDAH, Third World Quarterly; მასალები საქართველოს ეთნოგრაფიისათვის (Materials for Georgian Ethnography)
- Academic Reviewer for public bodies: Danish Ministry of Education; Italian Ministry of Research and Education; Swiss National Foundation Grants
- Editorial Board: Urbanities, Turkish Culture and Haci Bektas Veli Research Quarterly, Studies of Transition States and Societies, The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Humanities, Illuminazioni; ASSOS Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences.
- University of Messina Scientist in Charge of two Erasmus KA107 (extra EU): Yerevan State University and Tbilisi State University; Erasmus EK103: University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Adnan Menderes University, Aydin (Turkey)

Selezione pubblicazioni
2023
• ‘Managing Public Health in a Fragile Consociation: Lebanon Between Wars, Explosions and the Covid-19 Pandemic’, in The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health Anthropological Perspectives, G. Prato e I. Pardo (eds.), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 245-261
• (with A. Hakobyan) ‘Informality between states that d not officially speak: Turkish trucks entering Armenia’. L’Uomo. Tradizione, società e sviluppo, 13(2): 77-102
• (with A. Hakobyan) ‘Armenians in the 2020 Second Nagorno Karabakh War Resistance against ‘evil’: symbols, narratives, and practices’. DADA. Rivista di Antropologia post-globale, 2:9-40
2022
• ‘La Gerusalemme dei cristiani: luoghi santi, determinant culturali e barriere sociali’, in Gerusalemme. Aspetti culturali, filosofici, letterari, P.R. Sindoni (ed), Napoli: Orthotes, 141-516
• (con J. Dingley) ‘Conflict, security, and development: a Durkheimian approach’, Illuminazioni, 61: 24-70
• (con J. Helou) ‘Inter-Communal Relations in the Context of a Sectarian Society: Communal Fear Spawns Everyday Practices and Coping Mechanisms among the Maronites of Lebanon’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 28:4, 393-412
• ‘Managing Public Health in a Fragile Consociation: Lebanon between Wars, Explosions and the Covid-19 Pandemic’, Urbanities, 12:6, 78-84
2021
• 'Perimetrare e legittimare la memoria', in Il mistero e l’inganno, M. Bolognari (ed.), Navarra, 171-200
• (con B. Panchetti) ‘Tragic Memories Encountering Ethno-Religious Revival in Contemporary South-Eastern Turkey’, in The Ethno-cultural others of Turkey, A.K. Gültekin & Ç.C. Süvari (eds.), Russian-Armenian University, 233-247
• (con A. Hakobyan) ‘Encountering Turkish Denialism', Urbanities, 11:1, 36-54
• (con A. Hakobyan) Syrian Armenians and the Turkish Factor. Kessab, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor in the Syrian War, Palgrave
2020
• ‘The Twenty-Five Alawi From Tokat and the Creation of the Alawite Bektashi Italia in Lecco’, Turkish Culture, 96: 145-162
• ‘Shifting Determinants Among Dead Bodies’, Illuminazioni, 54: 209-240
• ‘The Unusual Frontier-worker’, in City Life and Beyond in Times of Pandemic, G. Prato (ed), Urbanities, 10:4, 45-50
2019
• (con B. Panchetti) ‘Governance formale e informale nel Libano di Hezbollah’, Humanities, 8:2: 55-84
• ‘La mia stanza al The Fountain’, DADA, 2:45-75
• (con G. Costanzo) ‘The Good Teacher in the Good School', in Case Study Methodology in Higher Education, A. Baron & K. McNeal (eds.), IGI Global, 280-297
• ‘Conflicting Loyalties and Legitimate Illegality in Urban South Lebanon’, in Ethnographies of Legitimacy, I. Pardo & G. Prato (eds.), Palgrave, 259-279
2018
• (con B. Panchetti) ‘Narrative inter-religiose e tensioni dialettiche sul reato di adulterio nel sistema consociativo del Libano contemporaneo’, VOCI, 15:85-107
• (con Dingley) (eds.) Understanding Religious Violence: Radicalism and Terrorism in Religion Explored via six Cases Studies, Palgrave
• ‘Emile Durkheim and the Northern Irish violence', DADA, 1:45-56
2017
• ‘Book Launching Informalities on the Right Side of a Nineteenth-Century Walnut Table’, in The Informal Economy, Exploring Drivers and Practices, I. Horodnic et al. (eds.), Routledge, 61-72
• (con A. Taşkın) ‘Tradition of Tattooing in Siverek, Turkey’, Middle Eastern Studies, 53:2, 271-280
2016
• 'How the Crisis Helped Informality to Re-entered the Temple', Urbanities, 6:2, 39-52
• Terra e società etniche divise: il caso del Libano del Sud. Siciliano
• (ed.) Fundamentalism, LIT Verlag
2015
• (ed.) Bridging Religiously Divided Societies in the Contemporary World, University of Pisa Press
• (con J. Dingley), ‘Sectarian Dynamics of Multi-Cultural Norms and the Law in Lebanon’, National Identities, 17:4, 405-431
•(con A. Taşkın), ‘Disappearing Old Christian Professions in the Middle East’, Middle Eastern Studies, 51: 6, 922-931
2014
• ‘When the Ethnographer Encounters War’, in Anthropology of Fear, A. Boscoboinik and H. Horakova (eds.), LIT Verlag, 205-218
• Come pelle saldata alle ossa, Armando Siciliano Editore
2012
• ‘Political Manipulations: Death and Urban Graveyards Northern Ireland’, in Anthropology in the City, I. Prato and G. Pardo (eds.), Ashgate, 155-172
• ‘The Messina Bridge: Political Conflict Running Roughshod Over Local Issues’, Urbanities, 2:1, 57-67
• ‘The Alevi Cultural Centre in Horn-St Gallen’, in Uluslararasi Tarihten Bugüne, A. Erdemir et al. (eds.), Cem Vakfi, 133-150
2011
• ‘Understanding Determinants: Syrian Orthodox Christians and Security Related Issues in Diyarbakır’, Urban Anthropology, 40:1-2, 109-150
2010
• ‘Erosion of Legitimacy’, in Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance in the Mediterranean Region, I. Pardo and G. Prato (eds.), Ashgate, 191-209
• ‘The Trans-National Journey of a Textile Art’, in International Şırnak and Its Vicinity Symposium, N. Doru (ed.), Şırnak University Press, 279-93
2008
• ‘Ethnography under Fire’, in Different Approaches to Peace and Conflict Research, R. Hudson & H.J. Heintze (eds.), University of Deusto Press, 159-182
2007
• (con J. Dingley), ‘The Human Body as a Terrorist Weapon’, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 30:6, 459-492
2006
• ‘Challenges in Data Collection in a Violently Divided Society’, in Peace and Conflict, A. Gray & I. Al-Marashi (eds.), University of Deusto Press, 21-31
2005
• (con T. Duffy) ‘Educational innovation on politically sensitive subjects’, Journal of Education for Teaching, 31:1, 63-66