Silvia PITZALIS

Silvia Pitzalis holds a Bachelor's degree in 'Anthropological Sciences', a Master's degree in 'Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology' and a PhD in 'History' disciplinary scientific field M-DEA/01 from the University of Bologna.

Currently research fellow at the University of Urbino, Carlo Bo, she also teaches 'Anthropology and Ethnography of Migration Processes and Cultural Contexts' at the University of Bologna, 'Political Anthropology' at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and 'Cultural Anthropology. Introduction' at the University Ca' Foscari Venice.
Since 2005 she has been conducting research in anthropology using ethnographic methodologies. Her research fields range from political anthropology to legal anthropology, from the ethnographic investigation of disasters and migration phenomena to emergency management in crisis processes.
She has gained expertise in the study of environmental, social, urban and political transformation processes, participation by communities and groups, 'marginality', processes of inclusion/exclusion and forms of institutional violence; in the production of background analysis for crisis management, strategic planning and building forms of positive response and capacity building; in support of vulnerable people and the strengthening of their agency; in the evaluation and analysis of local, national and supranational policies; in the evaluation of administrative-bureaucratic and legal 'rituals'; in the study of multicultural contexts; in the conduction of ethnographic research at the national and international level (Italy, Sri Lanka, Niger, Senegal).
She is the author of two monographs, several essays appearing in scientific volumes and journals of national and international relevance, and numerous dissemination articles.