F-WORD Staff
Maddalena Gretel Cammelli
Principal Investigator
PhD Anthropology
Her research interests range from political anthropology and social movements to the anthropology of fascism, the ethnography of neo-fascism and racism, and the local impact of immigration management in a logic of ’emergency response’. She has studied the peasant movements that arose in 90s India to defend food autonomy, carrying out field research in the Himalayan region in 2007 for her Master’s thesis. She then focused on the emergence of political sentiments and cultures associated with the re-appropriation of fascist history in contemporary Italy, conducting ethnographic research among neo-fascist militants in Rome in 2010. Since 2015 she has also been investigating the local impact of Extraordinary Reception Centers for asylum seekers and the relationship between the emergency management of migration processes and the diffusion of hostility towards migrants. She is currently an Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin.
Marco Bernardi
Post-Doc
PhD History
His interests of research are between the fields of History and Linguistics and are focused on the rhetorical tools to tell and manipulate history and the public use of history in contemporary Italian society. His investigations focus primarily on traumatic memories in Italy such as the Fascism dictatorship, the Italian colonial experience, the 1943-45 civil war, and their legacies from the 1970s onward. For his research, he employs different types of sources, with a preference for the analysis of mass media – above all television and cinema.
Chiara Calzana
Post-Doc
PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology
Her research interests land in the fields of historical anthropology and memory studies. For her doctoral dissertation (defended at Milano-Bicocca University in 2023), she conducted ethnographic fieldwork and historical research in the area of the Vajont Dam disaster (Italian Alps), with a focus on memorialization and monumentalization practices related to public and private spaces. She also worked on the use of oral history for the study of the past and its representations. For the F-Word project, she’s working on historical anthropology, memories, and cultures of fascism in Europe.
Chiara Magliacane
Post-Doc
PhD Anthropology
Her research interests encompass medical and political anthropology, with a focus on the anthropology of trauma and violence in post-conflict settings. Her fieldwork experience includes research conducted in Mexico and Northern Ireland. She worked as a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast on the ESRC Project Echoes of suffering: Violence, trauma, and social work in post-conflict Belfast. This project represented a continuation of her PhD research. Additionally, she has held Visiting Researcher positions at Leiden University and Tulane University.
Marta Panighel
Post-Doc
PhD in Sociology
Her main interests lie in Gender and Postcolonial studies, with a focus on racism, feminisms, colonialism, gendered Islamophobia, intersectionality, and new and old right-wing movements. Together with Marie Moïse, she translated Sara R. Farris’ book In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke University Press, 2017). Besides her current position, she is also an adjunct professor in Politics of the Middle East at the Department of Political and International Science at the University of Genoa.
Gabriele Vitale
PhD Candidate
Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology
His research interests are situated in the fields of medical-political anthropology and cultural history, with particular attention to the construction of imaginaries, representations, and social and cultural relations in the context of economic globalization and its crises, moral economies, and the production of knowledge in the wake of socio-economic, political, epistemic, and spiritual uncertainty. He graduated at the University of Turin in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology with a thesis on vaccine dissent and hesitancy during the pandemic caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Cecilia Quarzola
Project Manager
M.A. Student of Anthropology
She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Management and Organization of Cultural Events at University of Florence in 2021, and she is currently pursuing a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. During the first year of her Master’s degree, she developed a keen interest in Political Anthropology. She is now working on her MA thesis, which focuses on far-right music dissemination among Gen Z activists in Italy.