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Mary Armstrong: Mary Armstrong has been a member of the Fine Arts Department at Boston College since 1989. She has primarily taught Painting: foundations and advanced levels. She has received several grants and fellowships including, two awards from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation, two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a fellowship from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland.
Shaul Bassi: Laurea in English Language and Literature (Ca’ Foscari). Dottorato in English Literature (Pisa and Florence). Studies at Berkeley and University of Liverpool. Ricercatore (Lecturer) in English and Post-colonial Literature at Ca’ Foscari. Has taught at Wake Forest University and University of California Study Abroad Programs in Venice. Taught at VIU in Spring 2002 and Fall 2004.
Marina Bianchi: Marina Bianchi is Full Professor in economics at the University of Cassino, where she teaches Microeconomic Theory and Industrial Economics.
Massimo Brunzin: Laurea in Foreign Languages and Literature (Ca’ Foscari), dottorato in Francophone Literature (Bologna). Specialized in Language Teaching with Advanced Technology (Ca’ Foscari), he is a member of the management staff of the Venice Institute, an Italian language center for foreigners. Was Teaching Assistant in Francophone Literature at Ca’ Foscari, with special interest in Black Africa, and instructor of Italian for foreigners at the Venice Institute. Coordinates the Italian as a Foreign language courses at VIU since Fall 2001.
William H. Chafe: Ph.D. (Columbia University). Professor at the Department of History, Duke University, where he is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. Main scholarly interest: issue of race and gender equality.
Stoney Conley: Stoney Conley is a member of the Fine Art Department at Boston College where he has taught studio art classes since 1982. He was the Chief Curator at the B.C. McMullen Museum of Art for sixteen years, where he organized many exhibitions.
Daniela Cottica: Daniela Cottica Laurea (Ca’ Foscari), MA and PhD in Archaeology (University College, London). Lecturer (ricercatore) in Classical Archaeology at the Department of Sciences of Antiquity and the Near East of Ca’ Foscari. Current fields of research include: private architecture in the Roman Empire; the space of imperial cult; Roman military architecture; symbolism in private art and cognitive archaeology; Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique ceramics; pottery analysis and quantification; relationship between material culture and context; theories and methods of archaeological research.
Neil De Marchi: Neil De Marchi BEc (Western Australia), BPhil (Oxford), PhD (Australian National University, Camberra). Professor of Economics at Duke. Previously taught at Monash University (Victoria, Australia) and at the University of Amsterdam. Taught at the VIU Undergraduate Program in Spring 1999. Was Adjunct-directeur, Economic Research Dep’t of the ABN Bank, Amsterdam.
Renzo Derosas: Renzo Derosas graduated at Ca’ Foscari, Department of Historical Studies, where he is Associate Professor, teaching Economic History. Was researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, invited scholar at UCLA and visiting professor at Keio University. Member of both the European and the American Social Science History Associations, and of the Italian Society of Historical Demography (SIDeS). Areas of competence include History of the Family, Historical Demography, Database development and applications to historical research, Multivariate exploratory data analysis, Event History Analysis, Social Network Analysis. Currently involved in the Eurasia Project on Population and Family History (EAP).
Joerg Duenne: Maîtrise (M.A.) of French Literature (Paris VIII, St. Denis), Dr. phil. in Romance Philology (LMU). Postdoctoral Assistant at the Institut für Romanische Philologie, LMU. Was assistant at Romanisches Seminar, University of Kiel (1996-2000) and postdoctoral fellow at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (2005-06).
Valeria Finucci: Laurea in Modern Languages and Literature (Roma), PhD in Comparative Literature (Illinois). Professor at the Department of Romance Studies, Duke University. Already taught at VIU in Spring 2001 and Fall 2004. Her interests include: Renaissance literature, theater, women's studies, early modern medicine, and psychoanalysis.
Victor Gómez Pin: Maîtrise de Philosophie and Doctorat des lettres (Sorbonne), Doctor en Filosofia (Barcelona). Professor of Philosophy at UAB. Taught at the Universities of Dijon, Paris III and Basque Country. Already taught at VIU in Fall 2002. He is coordinator of the International Ontology Congress, vicepresident of the Iberian Society of Greek philosophy and member of the École Doctorale of the University of Paris X. He is head of a research program on “The Real and the Virtual” from the point of view of the Classical Philosophy, sponsored by the Consejo General de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica.
Felicity Hand: Felicity Hand is senior lecturer in British and American civilization and post-colonial studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Michael Hardt: Michael Hardt. BS in Engineering (Swarthmore College), MA and PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Washington). Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke.
Hans Kuehner: Hans Kühner Dr.phil. in Sinology. Professor of Chinese Studies, LMU. Visiting Professor at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and Jishou University, China. Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica.
Marco Li Calzi: Laurea in Economia Politica (Bocconi), M.S. in Operations Research and Ph.D. in Decision Sciences (Stanford). Full Professor in Mathematical Methods for Economics at Ca’ Foscari. Director of the Ph.D. Program in Economics and Organization of the School of Advanced Studies in Venice.
Paola Modesti: Laurea in Architecture (IUAV), Postgraduate Specialization Degree in History of Art (Cattolica, Milan), PhD in History of Architecture (IUAV). Professor of Art and Architecture in Venice at VIU since 2000; Research Fellow (“assegnista”) in the History of Architecture at the Department of the History of Architecture, IUAV, where has also lectured as “collaboratrice alla didattica” since 1998.
Eyal Naveh: B.A. and M.A. in History (TAU), PhD in History (Berkeley). Professor in the Department of History of TAU, where he was the head of the General B.A. and Interdisciplinary Studies program. He is also professor of History and member of the Academic Council at the Kibbutzim College of Education.
Kevin Newmark: B.A. (Holy Cross College), M.A. (Middlebury College in Paris, France), Ph.D. (Yale). Professor of French at the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Boston College. Also taught at Yale. Areas of Specialization: post-romantic poetry and prose, literary criticism and theory, philosophical approaches to literature, and literary approaches to philosophy.
Berndt Ostendorf: Berndt Ostendorf born in 1940, married, two sons, is professor of North American Cultural History at the Amerika Institut, LMU. Already taught in the VIU Undergraduate Program of Spring 2001.
Paolo Pellizzari: Laurea in Mathematics (Padova), PhD in Mathematics for Economic Decisions (Trieste). Professor of Mathematical methods for economics and finance at Ca’ Foscari. Also teaches for the Ph.D. in Economics and Organization of the School of Advanced Studies in Venice, based in San Servolo and taught Quantitative Methods for Economics for the VIU Master in Economics and Finance.
Luca Pes: B.Sc. (Econ.) in History and Government (LSE), Laurea in History (Ca’ Foscari), Ph.D. in Italian Studies (Reading). Assistant dean at VIU, where he teaches since 1997. Also teaches at the Faculty of Regional Planning of IUAV (“History of the City and Urban Government”; “Social History of Knowledge”) and in the International Program of the Carlo Cattaneo University (“Italian Society”).
Mauro Pierconti: J.K.M. Pierconti Laurea in History of Architecture and dottorato in History of Architecture and of Town Planning (IUAV). Was Visiting Student at Waseda. First Degree thesis on the history of the Ospedale degli Incurabili of Venice (1522-1567) and doctoral dissertion on Venetian Twentieth Century architect Carlo Scarpa and Japan.
Lluís Quintana Trias: teaches Catalan language and literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His main research fields are social and aesthetic issues in Catalan literature at the turn of the XIXth to XXth century, and rising in the social scale in the European literature of the XIXth century, with special focus on the role of industrial towns as Barcelona in those changes.
David M. Rasmussen: David M. Rasmussen BA (Minnesota), BD, MA and PhD (Chicago). Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Boston College. Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Associate Editor of Human Studies and member of the Editorial Board of Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche. President of the Graduate Program in Political Philosophy and Human Rights at LUISS, Rome.
Pauline C. Reich: Professor, Waseda University School of Law. Courses taught include: Legal and Business Ethics, Women and the Law, Internet for Legal Research, Cyberlaw and E-commerce, Legal English.
Eva Renzulli: Eva Renzulli. Laurea in Architecture and dottorato in History of Architecture (IUAV). Maître de conférence (Lecturer) in the MA programme at the Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris. Was Teaching Fellow at Harvard and Teaching Assistant at IUAV and the University of Ferrara. Taught at VIU in the Fall semesters of 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Gaye Rowley: Gillian “Gaye” Rowley. BA in Asian Studies (Australian National University); MA (Japan Women’s University); PhD (Cambridge). Associate Professor at the School of Law of Waseda University, where she is also Adjunct Professor in the School of International Liberal Studies. Was lecturer at the Japanese Studies Centre of the University of Wales, Cardiff, and Secretary of the European Association for Japanese Studies.
Ira Valeria Sarma: MA in Indology (Köln) and PhD in Modern Hindi Literature (SOAS). Hindi Lecturer at the Department of Indological and Iranian Studies, LMU. Taught at SOAS (University of London), was Research fellow for the RWLE Möller Foundation and researcher/advisor for a radio feature on the South Asian Diaspora in the UK for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk.
Maddalena Scimemi: Laurea and PhD in History of Architecture and Urbanism (IUAV). Studied at the Technical University in Delft (The Netherlands) and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal. Teaches History of Contemporary Architecture and History of Architecture at the Faculty of Industrial Design at IUAV and in San Marino. Also teaches at the University of Bologna and the Politehnika of Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
Laurie Shepard: Laurie Shepard is an Associate Professor of Italian at Boston College. Her specialty is Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on lyric poetry, rhetoric, and historical linguistics. An English major at Wesleyan University, she pursued graduate studies in Medieval Romance Literature at Boston College and La Sapienza in Rome.
Hans-Martin Shoenherr-Mann: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Political Science and History (Erlangen). Since 1996 is Privatdozent of Political Philosophy and Theory at LMU.
Mordechai Tamarkin: Mordechai Tamarkin BA in History and Political Science and MA in History (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), PhD in African History (School of Oriental and African History, University of London). Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History of TAU, where he is the Head of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research.
Laura Trafí: Laura Trafí graduated in Fine Arts and PhD in Art, Culture and Education (Barcelona). Assistant professor in Education to Visual Arts (UAB).
James M. Vardaman: B.A. (Rhodes College), M.Div. (Princeton Theological Seminary), M.A. in Asian Studies (Hawaii). Professor at the Waseda School of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Masazumi Wakatabe: BA and MA in Economics (Waseda), MA in Economics (University of Toronto). Professor of Economics at the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda. Was Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Scholar at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy of George Mason University.
Kathi Weeks: Kathi Weeks. BA in Political Science (Western Washington), MA and PhD in Political Science (Washington). Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Duke. Previously taught at Fairfield University. Research and teaching interests in: Women’s Studies; Feminist Theory; Women and Politics; Contemporary Political Theory; Poststructuralist Theory; Marxist Theory; History of Political Theory; Ancient and Modern Political Theory.
Yossi Yzraely: Yossi Yzraely. BA (Drama Department, Bristol), PhD in Theatre Arts (Carnegie-Mellon). Professor of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University. Was also Professor of Scriptwriting at the Jerusalem School of Film and Television (1994-2000) and artistic director of the Habimah National Theatre (1975-77) and the Khan Theatre at Jerusalem (1984-1987).