Dorothy Louise Zinn, Ph.D. Contact address: Faculty of Education Free University of Bozen-Bolzano viale Ratisbona 16 39042 Brixen/Bressanone (BZ) ITALY e-mail: [email protected] tel. + 39 0472 014220 fax: +39 0472 014009 Webpage: https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/education/academic-staff/person/31663- dorothy-louise-zinn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1403-985X Dorothy Louise Zinn is Professor of Social-Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen- Bolzano. Prof. Zinn is originally from the United States, where she did her academic training. She has conducted fieldwork in Southern Italy and South Tyrol, and has published extensively on issues such as immigration and multiculturalism, youths with migration background, clientelism and corruption, social protest, youth unemployment. She is also involved in research on Bronislaw Malinowski’s presence in South Tyrol and co-founded the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology (MFEA) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (https://mfea.projects.unibz.it/). Her book La Raccomandazione (Donzelli, 2001) won a Pitré international award in anthropology. She has translated a number of anthropological texts from Italian into English, including two classic ethnographic monographs by Italian ethnologist Ernesto De Martino. In addition to her academic study of migration, Prof. Zinn serves as a volunteer scientific consultant with migrant advocacy groups and is an editorialist with the newspaper Corriere dell’Alto Adige. ACADEMIC TITLES 2018 Italian national scientific abilitazione (ASN) for the position of Full Professor, area 11/A5 (Ethnoanthropological Sciences), valid for six years from 30.07.2018 1998 – Italian degree in Letters, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” (with top marks, 110/lode) 1994 Ph.D. in Social-Cultural Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin (declared equivalent to the Italian doctorate, MURST decree 863 del 14/04/1999) 1990 – M.A. in Social-Cultural Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin 1986 – B.A. in Anthropology- Linguistics, Brown University, Magna cum Laude distinction (highest awarded) 1 RESEARCH PROJECTS September 2019 – member of the experimental interdisciplinary fieldwork team, “Studi sul Qui”, Jovençan (Valle d’Aosta) 01.03.2018-June 2020 Principal Investigator, “Towards an intercultural understanding of gender-based violence and empowerment among women of migrant origin in South Tyrol” (funded through the Unibz Central Research Commission competitive call, 2017) 01.04.2017-31.03.2020 Member of Project Team (social science unit) “Urban green in an interdisciplinary perspective: Environmental impact, cost-benefit, and human perception” (funded through Unibz Central Research Committee competitive call 2016 for interdisciplinary research) 2016-present Co-P.I. (with E. Tauber) of the project “Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology” (project financed by the Unibz Fund for New Initiatives Connected to the Development of the University): the project includes research on Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson’s presence in South Tyrol 15.01.2016-15.09.2017 Member of Project Team, “Undersirable Foreigners or Dangerous Italians? Sinti and Roma in the northeastern borderlands under fascism, 1922-1943. The case of Alto Adige and Trentino.” (project financed by the Unibz Central Research Committee through a competitive call, 2015) 01.11.2014-31.10.2015 Co-P.I. (with Prof. S. Elsen) of EUREGIO Field study-research (Lehrforschung) project “Migrant Work Worlds in South Tyrol”, in collaboration with the European Ethnology Institute, U. Innsbruck (project financed by Unibz Faculty of Education) and member in 2015-16 of the successive EUREGIO Mobility project coordinated by G. Reckinger (U. Innsbruck) 2014-2017 member of PRIN anthropological research team on Migrazioni, Legami Familiari e Appartenenze Religiose : Interrelazioni, Negoziazioni e Confini” (national coordinator Prof. Cristina Papa, University of Perugia). 2013-2015 Member of Unibz’s TEMPUS-TACHYwe project team (coordinated by Prof. W.A. Lorenz) 01.10.2012-30.10.2014 Co-P.I. of research project “The Construction of ´Diversity´ in Institutions: An Anthropological Study” with a focus on foreign children in the South Tyrol school system (project financed by a competitive call, Unibz Central Research Committee) 2008-2011 research on Italian immigration's “second generations” 2007 research on migrant writings in Italy 2006-2007 member of an anthropological research group on labor mobility in the Italian public administration. Project director: Prof. Maria Minicuci, Università “La Sapienza” – Rome (project financed by SVIMEZ) 2002-2003 member of the Italian team of the EPICC European research project 2002-2005 Research on the schooling of children of Albanian immigrants in Matera province (Italy) 1999-2002 Research on representations of immigrants in Italian mass media 1997 - Fieldwork in Bernalda (MT, Italy) to update and expand previous research on youth 2 unemployment 1993-1996 - various studies of Albanian immigration in Southern Italy 1992-1993 Fieldwork in Bernalda (MT, Italy) in preparation for doctoral dissertation on clientelism and the Southern Italian question 1990- Fieldwork on Senegalese immigrants in Bari (funded by a grant from the Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, Turin) 1989- Fieldwork in a Bernalda (MT, Italy) on clientelism and chronic youth unemployment 1985- Fieldwork in Strasbourg, France, for B.A. thesis on the Alsatian regional minority TEACHING/ ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE From October 2020 – Full Professor of Social-Cultural Anthropology (Faculty of Education) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano October 2011-September 2020 – Associate Professor of Social-Cultural Anthropology (Faculty of Education) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano May 2019: coordinator (with Prof. S. Meyer, University of Innsbruck) of a Spring School on “Cultural Heritage and Social Inclusion”, Euregio Teaching Mobility Project 27-31 August 2018 - Faculty representative, Summer School CLIL Methodologies in Higher Education – Utrecht 2016 Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, within the Erasmus+ teaching mobility program (09.05-13.05.16) 1998-2011 Adjunct instructor of Anthropology at the Università degli Studi della Basilicata (Matera), special focus on multiculturalism and intercultural education 2007 Instructor of Intercultural Education, Corso Speciale di Abilitazione (under the aegis of the SSIS – School of Specialization in Secondary Education), Università degli Studi della Basilicata 2006-2010 Instructor of “Sociology of Cultural Processes”, M.A. program in New Technologies for History and Cultural Heritage, Università degli Studi della Basilicata 2005 Instructor of Intercultural Education and Intercultural Pedagogy, Corso Speciale di Abilitazione (Alta Formazione), Università degli Studi della Basilicata July 2005 Instructor on the theme of Immigration in Italy, International Summer School “New Trends in the Anthropology of Southern Europe”, Lecce. 1993 Instructor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Maryland (Naples, Italy) 1990-1991 – Teaching assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Anthropology INSTITUTIONAL ROLES Since 2011: Member of the PhD Commission, Doctorate in General Pedagogy, Social Pedagogy, General Didactics and Disciplinary Didactics, Unibz Faculty of Education Coordinator of the Disciplinary Cluster Anthropology-Ethics-History-Geography (Unibz) 3 Member of working group for the reconfiguration of the L-39 Social Work B.A. degree Recognition on the part of Unibz as “quality professor”, having completed a course in CLIL Methodologies in Higher Education. Serving as part of a consulting body on language issues in teaching for the Unibz Study Commission. Coordinator of the working group for “LABcademic” Unibz Academic Reading and Writing Centre Oct.2012-Sept.2020 Director of the B.A. program in Communication Sciences and Culture (Unibz). Duties: collaboration with local stakeholders; President of program Study Council; Responsibility for Quality, Internships, Erasmus+; Working Group Credit Recognition; President of Graduation Exam Commissions; President of Admission Exam Commissions; organization of Open Day; coordination Freshers’ Day. PROFESSIONAL/SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS With service roles: Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale (SIAC), member of the Board Delegate to the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) Unibz Representative in the German-language Ethnology Institute network Regular membership: American Anthropological Association (AAA) Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) EASA Network for the Anthropology of the Mediterranean (Med-Net) South Tyrol Anthropological Association (EVAA) American Folklore Society (AFS) - Mediterranean Studies Section Association for the Anthropology of Policy Associazione Internazionale Ernesto de Martino (AIDEM) Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Centre for Research on Minorities (CERM), University of Insubria THIRD MISSION: EXTRA-UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC WORK, PUBLIC OUTREACH AND CONSULTING From 03.2020 editorialist with Corriere dell’Alto Adige, local section of Italian national daily Corriere della Sera. 14.11.2019 invited speaker in “Scomunicando” Communication Forum, organized by UPAD (BZ) 16.11.2019 podium participant in “Scomunicando” Communication Forum, “Communication on Trial”, organized by UPAD (BZ). 4 27.09.2019 co-organizer/presenter of exhibit