NATIONAL PHD IN PEACE STUDIES

email: angela.bernardo@uniroma1.it
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ngela Bernardo is an assistant professor (RTD-B) in History of Religions at Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a degree in Political Science from Sapienza University of Rome, a Ph.D. in History of Europe, and is a professional civil mediator. From 2014 to 2020 she was a research fellow in History of Religions at the Dept. of History Anthropology Religions Art Performing Arts (former Dept. of History Cultures Religions) of Sapienza University of Rome, with a focus on religions and public space in Europe, religious pluralism, and mediation. The latest book she published, with Edizioni Quasar, is the 2020 volume «Reconstructing a community: The Coptic Orthodox Church in Europe» (in Italian). Since 2012-2013 she has coordinated the higher education sector and placement/internship services of the Master in «Digital Heritage: Cultural Communication Through Digital Technologies» and of the Master in «Religions and Cultural Mediation» of Sapienza University of Rome, of whose scientific board she is a member. In 2015, she edited, with Alessandro Saggioro, the Italian translation of the «Toledo Guiding Principles on Teaching about Religions and Beliefs in Public Schools – OSCE/ODIHR». From 2017 to 2020 she was the project manager of the 2015 ERC PAThs project directed by Paola Buzi. Currently, as a Marie Curie fellow, she is carrying out the project «NEGOTIA – Negotiating Religion: Coptic Orthodox diaspora communities. Shifting identities, needs, and relations from Egypt to Europe and back» (GA-Grant Agreement n. 896918). Since 2022 Angela Bernardo is also carrying out the project «CopticWomen – Coptic Orthodox Women in Italy. Identities, Memories, and Representations of a Religious and Gender Group» (in Italian) to develop a research linked to the theoretical-methodological approach of the NEGOTIA project. Angela Bernardo is a co-chair of the Program Unit «Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives» (RPS) and a member of the Program Unit «Religion in Europe» (RiE) of the American Academy of Religion (AAR).