Phd in HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, RELIGIONS

email: laura.faranda@uniroma1.it
phone: 23299
building: Lettere
room: 213 (III piano)

L. Faranda is Full Professor of Demo-Ethno-Anthropological Disciplines at Sapienza University of Rome. In 1987 she was awarded with a scholarship for her PhD studies in “Myth, rite and theatre” (University of Calabria). From 1989 to 1997 she was Assistant Professor at University of Cassino (Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy). In 1998 she was Associate Professor at “Sapienza” University of Rome; in 2006 she became Full Professor.
Her research interests include:
- Anthropology of Ancient Greece, ,with particular regard to mythical and symbolic implication of emotional language in classical tragedy;
- Symbolic anthropology, with emphasis on the relationship between body and gender identity;
- Body language (cultural kinesics and proxemics) in second-generation immigrant children in italian schools;
- Therapeutic practices in mental illness, with particular regard to the relationship between myth and proto-clinic in the ancient world and to possible cultural contaminations in contemporary psychiatry and psychotherapy;
- Colonial psychiatry in Algeria;
- Recovery and promotion of a colonial archive;
- Cultural mediation processes between Italy and Tunisia from past to present;
- Religious minorities in Tunisia.
She has been member of national and international research projects in Senegal (1992), in Mali (from 2005 to 2012) and Tunisia (since 2011). Since 2011 she has been director of an international research project on migration between Italy and Tunisia and Tunisian religious minorities (Jews, Christians, Sufi Muslims) supported by an agreement between Sapienza University and the Tunisian Universities Neuf Avril and Manouba. Since 2009 she has been part of University Council for Cooperation and International Relationship (CUCRI). In 2011 she was President of the course of study for master degree History, Anthropology, Religions. From 2010 to 2015 she was coordinator of Doctorate in Myths, Rite, and Symbolic Practices. Since 2012 she has been part of the Professors College of Doctorate in History, Anthropology, Religions. Her academic activity includes the supervision of PhD and Post-doc research fellows. Her publications count 7 monographies, 6 edited books, 40 peer-reviewed articles/book chapters. She is member of editorial board of “Voci” and “L’Uomo”. She is the director of Diego Carpitella Anthropological Laboratory of Images and Sound, in which ethnographic material (videos, audio recordings, transcriptions of interviews, photos, pictures, etc.) is stored.