Deborah NADAL
- Position
- Adjunct Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 9852
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deborah.nadal@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Demoethnoanthropological Sciences [SDEA-01/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/deborah.nadal (personal record)
https://www.unive.it/multibodi
Office hours
The lecturer receives students on Fridays (early afternoon), by appointment to be made via email: deborah.nadal@unive.it
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FM10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
STORIA DAL MEDIOEVO ALL'ETÀ CONTEMPORANEA [FM7]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURALE, ETNOLOGIA, ETNOLINGUISTICA [FMR10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
STUDI STORICI: ETÀ MEDIEVALE, MODERNA, CONTEMPORANEA [FMR7]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Publication highlights
Michelle Pollowitz, Cole Allick, Keala B. Campbell, Nicole lee Kamakahiolani Ellison , Giselle Perez-Aguilar, Melissa Vera, Vickie Ramirez, Deborah Nadal, Julianne Meisner One Health, many perspectives: Exploring Indigenous and Western epistemologies in CABI ONE HEALTH, vol. 3 (ISSN 2791-223X)
DOI - URL correlato 2024,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5072241
Deborah Nadal; Sreejith Radhakrishnan Global Dog and Human Rabies Control Efforts from Ancient Times to 2030 and Beyond in Deborah Nadal , Sreejith Radhakrishnan, One Health for Dog-mediated Rabies Elimination in Asia. A Collection of Local Experiences, Wallingford, CABI, pp. 1-10 (ISBN 9781800622968)
DOI - URL correlato 2023,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5028541
Nadal D.; Hampson K.; Lembo T.; Rodrigues R.; Vanak A.T.; Cleaveland S. Where Rabies Is Not a Disease. Bridging Healthworlds to Improve Mutual Understanding and Prevention of Rabies in FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE, vol. 9, pp. 867266 (ISSN 2297-1769)
DOI - URL correlato 2022,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5028666
Nadal D. Can camaraderie help us do better than compassion and love for nonhuman health? Some musings on One Health inspired by the case of rabies in India in Deborah Nadal, More-than-One Health. Humans, Animals, and the Environment Post-COVID, Milton Park, Routledge, pp. 192-210 (ISBN 9781032277882)
DOI - URL correlato 2022,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5028664
Deborah Nadal Rabies in the streets. Interspecies camaraderie in urban India , University Park, Penn State University Press (ISBN 978-0-271-08595-1)
- URL correlato 2020,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5028661
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
CURRENT POSITIONS
- Since 2022: Postdoctoral researcher. Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Research project (funded by the Italian Ministry of Research): A multispecies ethnography of human-animal-environment assemblages for tick-born disease prevention in Italy and Slovenia
Teaching activitiy in the academic year 2023/2024: course "Folklore: Human and nonhuman animals in a relation of care"
- Since 2021: External consultant for the Department of the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
PREVIOUS POSITION
- 2018-2021: Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK and the Center for One Health Research, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, USA
Research project (funded by the European Commission): The social anthropology of rabies epidemiology and elimination
OTHER GRANTS
- 2020: Workshop Grant, with Kevin Bardosh (University of Washington) from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for anthropological research, New York, USA
Project: Anthropology and infectious disease: revisiting theory and method in the Anthropocene
- 2016-2017: Hunt Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for anthropological research, New York, USA
Project: Stray gods and rabies: free-roaming animals in urban India
TRAINING
- 2011-2014: Ph.D. in Anthropological Sciences at the Department of Humanities, University of Verona, Italy
- 2007-2009: MA in Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology and Ethnolinguistics at the Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- 2004-2007: BA in Languages, Cultures and Institutions of Eurasian and Mediterranean Countries at the Department of Asian and African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
AWARDS
- 2021: English Language Book Award in the Social Sciences for the book “Rabies in the streets: Interspecies camaraderie in urban India” from the International Convention of Asia Scholars
- 2021: Honorable Mention from the New Millennium Book Award Committee for the book “Rabies in the streets: Interspecies camaraderie in urban India” from the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association
- 2014: Special prize “Animal rights” for the PhD thesis from the Venetian Eco-Institute Alex Langer
COLLABORATIONS
- Since 2021: Working Group on infectious diseases in the One Health Social Sciences Initiative
- Since 2021: Working Group on the sustainability of rabies elimination programmes in the United Against Rabies Forum (WHO, OIE, FAO)
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS AND TOPICS OF THESIS SUPERVISION
- Multispecies ethnography and human-animal studies
- The circulation of disease pathogens between human and nonhuman animals (zoonosis and anthropozoonosis)
- One Health (integrated health between humans, animals and the environment)
- Ethnoveterinary and veterinary anthropology
- Anthropology of India
- Applied anthropology
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8714-0089
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