Matteo BENUSSI

Qualifica
Ricercatore
Telefono
041 234 7236
E-mail
matteo.benussi@unive.it
SSD
Discipline demoetnoantropologiche [SDEA-01/A]
Sito web
www.unive.it/persone/matteo.benussi (scheda personale)
Struttura
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Sito web struttura: https://www.unive.it/dsu
Sede: Malcanton Marcorà

Current position

Assistant Professor (RTDB), Humanities Department, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

 

Training

2014-2018. PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Thesis title: Aspiring Muslims in Russia. Form-of-Life and Political Economy of Virtue in Povolzhye's Halal Movement

Key themes: Islam in Russia; religion and ethics; political economy; Eurasia; Tatars; state-Muslim relations in the post-Soviet world; Agamben; Weber.

 

2013-2014. MRes in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Dissertation title: Living Cemeteries in the Dead Zone. The Hrobki Rites and Memory Making after Chernobyl

Key themes: Chernobyl catastrophe; ritual, affect, and memory; pilgrimage; vernacular Orthodox religiosity in post-socialist Ukraine.

 

2009-2012. MA in Cultural Anthropology, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Dissertation title: “Siamo rimasti per vivere”. Etnografia dell’abitare nella Polesia Post-Černobyl’

Key themes: Chernobyl; anthropology of space/place; landscape-making and displacement in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.

 

Past academic positions

2022-2023. Marie Curie Plus One Fellow. Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

 

2019-2022. Marie-Skłodowska Curie Global Fellow. Department of Anthropology; University of California, Berkeley (2019-2021); Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2021-2022).

 

2018-2019. Affiliated Lecturer: University of Cambridge (UK); Department of Social Anthropology. Responsibilities: undergraduate supervision; lecture (BA) and seminar (MPhil) series on Anthropology and Religion and Ethnographic Methods.

 

 

Other academic roles/commitments

2020-2020. Vice-President of the Humanities and Social Sciences Association (University of California, Berkeley). Responsibilities: organization and chairing of HSSA events and activities (Writing Club, Writing Forum, Colloquia, social mixers), coordination, outreach.