Deborah NADAL

Position
Researcher
Telephone
041 234 9852
E-mail
deborah.nadal@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
DISCIPLINE DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGICHE [M-DEA/01]
Website
www.unive.it/people/deborah.nadal (personal record)
 https://www.unive.it/multibodi
Office
Department of Humanities
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.humanities
Where: Malcanton Marcorà
Research Institute
Research Institute for Social Innovation
Research Institute
Research Institute for Complexity

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