Curriculum Vitae Viola Castellano

Curriculum Vitae

Viola Castellano [email protected]

Current Position

 01/07/2019-ongoing, Postdoctoral Fellow , The Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Title of the project: An ethnography of asylum encounters: changing subjectivities between Italy and Gambia.

Supervisor: Paula Montero.

 2014-2019, Adjunct Professor, Department of Education, University of Bologna

Education

 03/04/2014 Phd, Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.  Grade: excellent/excellent (no corrections)  Dissertation's title: What Can I do when I know the system is wrong?”Representations of inequalities in the NYC Child Welfare System, Supervisor Prof. Bruno Riccio.

 01/03/2013-01/06/2013 Visiting Scholar, Anthropology Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA.

 01/04/2009 Master, Social Anthropology, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, 2007-2009  Grade: 110 with honors on 110.  Thesis title: “I'm not racist”: risk's policies and multiple rationality in the case of a sinti settlement in Venice, supervisor Prof. Gianluca Ligi.

 30/11/2006 Bachelor, Cultural Anthropology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2003-2006.  Grade:110 with honors on 110.  Thesis title: The traumatic memory and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:an anthropological perspective, supervisor Prof. Ivo Quaranta

Teaching experience

2020/2021, Course on Ethnographic Methods, Laurea Magistrale in Progettazione e gestione dell'intervento educativo nel disagio sociale (MA), Department of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.

2018/2019, Course on Ethnographic Methods, Laurea Magistrale in Progettazione e gestione dell'intervento educativo nel disagio sociale (MA), Department of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.

2017/2018, Course on Ethnographic Methods, Laurea Magistrale in Progettazione e gestione dell'intervento educativo nel disagio sociale (MA), Department of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.

2017/2018, Introduction to Anthropology of Education, Corso di Professionalizzazione per Insegnanti di Sostegno, Fondazione Alma Mater, University of Bologna, Italy.

2017/2016, Course on Ethnographic Methods, Laurea Magistrale in Progettazione e gestione dell'intervento educativo nel disagio sociale (MA), Department of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.

2014/2015, Course on Ethnographic Methods, Laurea in Educatore sociale e culturale(BA), Department of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bologna.

Research Expedition

14/11/2019-15/12/2020: Ethnographic fieldwork in the Gambia-Serrekunda (FAPESP Postdoctoral fellowship)

15/12/2020-21/02/2020: Ethnographic fieldwork in Italy-Ascoli/Rimini (FAPESP Postdoctoral fellowship)

01/10/2011-01/10/2012: Ethnographic fieldwork in the United States-New York (Phd at Bergamo University)

07/09/2008-11/01/2009: Ethnographic fieldwork in Italy-Venezia Mestre (MA at the University of Venice)

Fellowships and Awards

 2019-2021 FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) Fully funded Postdoctoral Fellowship.  2011-2014 Full Phd monthly scholarship granted by Bergamo University.  2011-2012 Research grant for fieldwork abroad, University of Bergamo.  2007/2008 Erasmus Scholarship granted by Ca'Foscari University for academic exchange program at Universitè Paris 8, Paris.  2003/2008 Academic scholarships granted by Bologna University and Venice University

Peer reviewed publications

Monographs

Castellano V., 2018, Revolving door. I servizi sociali e la riproduzione delle disuguaglianze a New York, Bergamo, Junior.

Journal Articles

Castellano, V. 2017, “We only have rights over operators: La riappropriazione del regime di sospetto da parte dei richiedenti asilo in un centro di prima accoglienza”, Antropologia Pubblica, 3(1), 51-74.

Castellano V., 2015, The making of inequalities through institutional action: the case of the New York City child welfare system, Jus Humanis, International Human Rights Network, December 2015, available at http://jushumanis.org/the-making-of-inequalities-through-institutional-action-the-case-of-the-new-york-city- child-welfare-system/

Castellano V., 2015, Living urban inequalities through institutions: the child welfare system in New York City, Quaderni del Souq, Numero 12, Novembre 2015.

Castellano V., 2014, “Vivere le disuguaglianze urbane attraverso le istituzioni: il child welfare system a New York City,” in Ravazzini M., Saraceno B. (a cura di) “ Sofferenza Urbana”, Annuario dei Quaderni del SOUQ, Milano, Il Saggiatore

Book Chapters

Castellano V., 2017, The politics of Racial Disproportionality in the New York City child welfare system, in Gribaldo A., Decimo F.,(ed) Boundaries within: Nation, Kinship and Identity among Migrants and Minorities, Springer.

Castellano V., 2014, “Razzismi” in: Riccio B. (a cura di) Antropologia e migrazioni, Roma, CISU - Centro d'Informazione e Stampa Universitari.

Forthcoming/Under Review

Castellano V., “The elephant in the room: silencing racialization in welfare regimes”, La Ricerca Folklorica, n.76 (Journal Article)

Castellano V., “Set to see us fail”: Debating inequalities in the NYC child welfare system, Berghahn Books (Monographic volume)

“Walking on a fine line: race, class, gender and the struggle for parent advocacy in the NYC child welfare system”, City and Society (Journal Article) International research projects 2021 Co-organizer (Latitude Platform), Collaborative Project with COSMOPOLIS Center for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, selected for the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies call for projects 2020. Project Title: Borderland Brussels

Organization of international and national conferences

 03/2021 Panel Coordination (with Olivia Casagrande), Challenges and opportunities of shared precarities in the field, Association of Social Anthropology, ASA2021: RESPONSIBILITY

 16/09/2020 Panel Coordination (with Fabio Vanin and Olivia Casagrande), Urban borderlands at the crossroads of anthropology and geography: spatiality, perceptions and social reproduction in a multiscalar perspective, Royal Anrthropological Institute Conference RAI 2020 London.

Presentations in international and national conferences

 06/2021 Gambian migrants in Italy: building new forms of solidarity in the interstices of the humanitarian/securitarian nexus, SIEF2021 15th Congress  15/09/2020 “Promoting self-entrepreneurship through post-asylum "voluntary" repatriation programs in the Gambia”, RAI 2020 London (online)  23/07/2020 “Decolonizing practices in mobility's regimes? Disentangling the epistemological stakes of a troubled fieldwork”, EASA 2020 Lisbon (online)  21/12/2017 “La riappropriazione del regime di sospetto in un centro di prima accoglienza per richiedenti asilo”, IV Convegno della Società Italiana di Antropologia Applicata, Trento.  5/06/2014-7/06/2014 “Being aware of “the conduct of the conduct”: a stylized governmentality?” 5th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, Bergamo University, Italy.  3/04/2014- 4/06/2014 “The politics of racial disproportionality in the NYC child welfare system”, Changing population: migration, reproduction, identity, Trento University, Italy.  21/11/2013 “The ambivalent moral economies of community partnership in New York City child welfare system“, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA.

Invited lectures and seminars  19/11/2020, Set to see us fail: vivere e contestare le disuguaglianze nei servizi sociali a new york, Centro Modi – Mobilita' Diversita' Inclusione Sociale, Università di Bologna  21/05/2020, “I migranti gambiani fra criminalizzazione e vittimizzazione”, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione,Campus di Rimini, Università di Bologna  14/05/2020, “I servizi per i minori e la riproduzione delle disuguaglianze nel volume Revolving Door”, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione,Campus di Rimini, Università di Bologna  07/05/2019, "La maternità contestata: servizi sociali e disuguaglianze a New York", Libera Università di Bolzano  12/11/2018 “Revolving Door. I servizi per i minori e la riproduzione delle disuguaglianze a New York”,Centro MODI Mobilità Diversità Inclusione Sociale, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione,Campus di Rimini, Università di Bologna  10/04/2017 “Practicing activist mothering in the child welfare system”, presentation of research project, research group of anthropology of global inequalities, Institute of social and cultural anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin  20/12/2016 “La riappropriazione del “regime di sospetto” da perte dei richiedenti asilo in un centro di prima accoglienza “, Convegno della Società Italiana di Antropologia Applicata, Trento.  12/05/2016, Structural inequalities and racial stereotypes in US social services”, Jus Humanis, Lund University, Sweden  2014 The NYC Child Welfare System: Inhabiting inequality, representing conflict, AISEA, Italian Association For Ethnographic and Anthropological Sciences Annual Meeting  2013 “Organized to see us fail” : perceptions and conflicts between families and institutions in NYC child welfare system, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Demo-Anthropological disciplines seminars.  07/11/2013 After the fieldwork: presentation of the ethnography, Bologna University, Laboratory on Anthropology.  12/06/2012 , Talking about racial disproportionality in social services, Columbia University, Teachers College.

Other professional experiences

30/08/2016-10/05/2019, Freelance Researcher and Writer, Studio Tomàs Saraceno, Berlin, Germany.

23/05/2015-1/04/2016, Legal advocate and social worker, Gruppo Umana Solidarietà NGO, Reception Center for asylum seekers, Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

24/11/2014-27/02/2015: Intern, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Public Administration and Development Management, E-government Branch, New York.

Memberships

2020 Latitude Platform for Urban Research and Design, Brussels, BE.

2020 European Association for Social Anthropology (EASA)

2013 American Anthropological Association

Languages

Italian: Mother-tongue

English: Fluent

Portuguese: Good

French: Basic

German: Basic