DR. SANDRA ANNUNZIATA Department of Geography University of Leicester Bennett Building University Road Leicester LE1 7RH Email: [email protected] SUMMARY Sandra Annunziata is an urban studies scholar, urban policy analyst and radical urban planner. Her research engages with action oriented projects using participatory tools and methods. She is currently comparing anti-eviction/anti-displacement discourse and practices in three Southern European Cities (Rome, Madrid, and Athens) the final goal of which is to implement an anti-gentrification toolkit for southern Europe in the current period of austerity. Her research to date has investigated variegated forms of neoliberal urbanism, gentrification (and practices of displacement resistance), comparative urbanism, architecture, urban policy, the notion of European urbanism and the European urban agenda. Her current interests are in studying the impact of the geopolitics of everyday lives, with focus on the impact of the Eurozone crisis on people’s everyday lives, austerity policies and the ‘new’ housing crisis. CURRENT POSITION Currently Honorary Visiting Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, UK. The main duty as Honorary Visiting Fellow are the completion of the dissemination and writing activities of a IEF Marie Curie Project and lecturing the module Social and Cultural Geography, BA in Geography. Visitor critics at the Cornell University Roma Program, Bachelor in City and Regional Planning, The main duty is to teach the European Cities class and to organize field work activities. The course focuses on the notion of urban Europe; the European integration proceeds and governance; European urban policies and the European urban agenda before and after the economic crisis. PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Oct 2014-Oct 2016: Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, UK. Project Title: (AGAPE) Exploring Anti-Gentrification Practices and Policies in Southern European Cities. PI: Professor Loretta Lees, funded by FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF - Marie-Curie Action (EUR 221,606). Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy (from Oct 2013 to Sept 2014). Project: Small cities and social cohesion: policies and practices of inclusion of immigrants in small municipalities. Funded by the Italian National Framework for Research. Annunziata CV, p. 2 of 10 Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (RESOP), University of Geneva, Switzerland (from May 2012 to Sept 2012). Project: AGORA-Snowboarding on Swiss Islam. Finding a place for Islam in Europe: Cultural interactions between Muslim immigrants and receiving societies (EURISLAM), funded by Swiss National Foundation for the Critical Dissemination of Research Visiting Scholar, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, USA (from Jan 2011 - Aug 2011). Funded by Clarence Stein Grant for independent research on tenurial change in historical garden cities in Italy and the USA. Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Urban Studies, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy (from Oct 2008 to Sept 2011). Project: Urbanity and Conflict in the Neo-liberal City: Neighborhood transitions in Rome between social practices and cultural processes. Young Researcher, Department of Urban Studies, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy (from 2005 to 2007). For the project “Territories of the Changing City: Innovations of descriptions and policies”, project founded by National Research Framework for research; Main focus: “Neighbourhoods, a Research Agenda” under the supervision of prof. Marco Cremaschi local scientific coordinator OTHER RESEACH and POLICY APPOINTMENTS Housing expert, Department of Territorial Cohesion and Development, Italy. (May 2014 to June 2015). Main focus: member of the ex-ante assessment of the National Operative Program for metropolitan areas (PON Metro) Workshop tutor and consultant for the Heinrich-Boell Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine (April 2012 to May 2013). The implementation of pilot initiatives in the field of participatory planning in Ukraine. Educational Project funded by the Heinrich-Boell Foundation Onlus, Kiev. Strategic planning expert and project manager, Department of Urban Studies, Roma Tre University (from May 2008 to May 2009). Responsible for the design and implementation of the Integrated Urban Plan for Sustainable Development for the City of Arezzo, Tuscany Region, Italy. The plan included preliminary research, the strategic document, participatory activities and public bargaining (involving stakeholders through workshops and thematic focus groups), management of the development of the master plan (including physical design). The plan was designated for the award of EU Structural Funds and has been funded 16 Million Euros by the EU. The plan was evaluated by the regional government committee as the Best Urban Integrated Development Plan for the region EDUCATION 2008: PhD in Urban and Territorial Policies, Department of Urban Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Roma Tre University (thesis title: A Neighbourhood Called Desire: Neighbourhood transition in two case studies in Rome and Brooklyn). Won National Giovanni Ferraro Award for Italian Dissertations in 2010. November 2008: EU-Fellow at the Future Urban Research in Europe Training Program ‘The Ethnically Diverse City’ at the Bauhaus Universität of Weimar. Program funded by European Union - Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses. MSCF-CT-2004-516556. Annunziata CV, p. 3 of 10 Dec 2006-July 2007: Visiting PhD, Department of Urban Planning, Columbia University, USA. Supervisor Prof. Robert A. Beauregard. Objective of the visit - to study gentrification, the rebirth of an African-American neighborhood in Brooklyn, anti-gentrification movements and community organizing. 2004: Laurea in Architecture and Urbanism (five year course, equivalent to a BA degree and an MA in Planning), Faculty of Architecture, I.U.A.V (Venice), Italy. Annunziata CV, p. 4 of 10 PUBLICATIONS In English Peer reviewed journal articles Lees, L, Annunziata S and Rivas C (submitted) Resisting Global Gentrifications: (re)asserting the value of survivability, Annals of American Association of Geographers. Annunziata, S. and Lees, L. (2016). Resistance to displacement in Southern European cities during austerity gentrification. Sociological Research Online. Annunziata, S. (2017). Exploring the incidence of ownership: evolving forms of tenure in iconic garden communities. The case of Sunnyside, New York and Garbatella, Rome. Planning Perspectives, 32 (1): 1-22. Annunziata, S. (2014). Gentrification in Italy, in Changing Italian Cities: Emerging Imbalances and Conflicts. Antonio G. Calafati (ed). GSSI Urban Studies Working Papers, 6: 23-34. Caser, U., Annunziata, S., and Makarenko, A. (2013) Collaborative Urban Design, a Promising Approach to Brownfield Recovery. CEGOT, Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, 4: 7-29. Annunziata, S. and Manzo, L. (2013). Desire for diversity and difference in a gentrified neighborhood in Brooklyn. A dialogue between a Planner and a Sociologist, Journal Cambio: Cities and neighborhood undergoing transformation, III (6): 71-88. Annunziata, S. and Cossu, M. (2010). Urbanity beyond nostalgia: discovering public life at the edge of the city of Rome. Suburbanization in Global Perspective, Research in Urban Sociology. Marc Clapson and Ray Hutchison (eds). Emerald Press, 10: 131-152. Book Chapters Annunziata, S. and Rivas C. (in press). “Landscapes of resistance to gentrification and displacement”. Handbook of Gentrification Studies. Loretta Lees and Martin Philips (eds). Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. Annunziata, S. (in press). “Probing the right to buy: changing forms of tenure in Garbatella, Rome”. The Heritage of Iconic Planned Communities: The Challenges of Change. Robert Freestone, Mary Corbin Sies and Isabelle Gournay (eds). The University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. Annunziata, S., Caser U, and Makarenko A. (2014). “Shaping collaboratively the future of Kiev: Frunze 35 pilot experience”. Anthology in Urban Studies. City and Renewal. Svitlana Shlipchenkoì and Vladyslav Tyminski. (eds). Alfa-Print, Kiev. 345-362. Annunziata, S. (2011). “Evolving neighbourhood: public sphere without public space in a newly built private neighbourhood in Rome”. Changing Places, Urbanity, Citizenship, and Ideology in the new European neighbourhoods, Marco Cremaschi and Franck Eckardt (eds). Tekne, Amsterdam. 63-81. Annunziata S. (2011). “The desire of ethnically diverse neighbourhood in Rome: the case of Pigneto in Rome”. The Ethnically Diverse City, Frank Eckardt and John Eade (eds), in Future Urban Research Series, vol. 4. Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag. 601-632. Annunziata CV, p. 5 of 10 Annunziata S. (2009). “Urbanity and Desire: neighbourhood change in contemporary economy. The case of Brooklyn”. The new urban question. Urbanism beyond neo-liberalism, Jurgen Rösemann, Diego Sepulveda and Lei Qu (eds). International Forum of Urbanism. 571- 582. Book Reviews Annunziata S. (2015). Renewing housing in Europe http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org Annunziata S. (2011). Michael Herzfeld, Evicted from the eternity. Etnografia e ricerca qualitiva. 3: 469-470. In other languages Book Banfi, E. and Annunziata, S. (2013). Snowboarding on Swiss Islam, Petit guide illustré pour découvrir l’islam en Suisse, Editions Alphil-Presses Universitaires Suisses. Edited work Annunziata S. and Mattiucci C. (eds) (2013). Lo Squaderno. Playing the city, 27. Accessible on-line. Cremaschi,