CURRENT POSITION:
Giacomo Pozzi is assistant professor in Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts and Tourism, IULM University. He is currently coordinator of the project "Atlantic Ghost: memory, identity and heritage between Africa, America and Europe", funded by the Department of Humanities (2023). He is a member of the Quality Assurance group for the Degree Course in Fashion and Creative Industries and for the Department of Humanities and Erasmus coordinator for the Degree Course in Arts and Cultural Events. From 2019 to 2021 he was a Research Fellow in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. In 2018 he obtained a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Milano-Bicocca in cotutorship with the Doutoramento em Estudos Urbanos of ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL). He is a member of the Ethnological Mission to Senegal and West Africa (MESAO), funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. He is co-promoter and co-coordinator of UrbELab - Urban Environment Lab (Anthropology Applied to Urban Environments), a Permanent Laboratory of the Italian Society of Applied Anthropology (SIAA). He is co-director of the Academic Series "Territories" (Edit Press) and member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Antropologia, of the Editorial Committee of Tracce Urbane - Italian Journal of Urban Studies, of the Scientific Committee of ETNO.URB., Rede de Etnografia Urbana and of the "Laboratorio di Studi Urbani" (University of Ferrara). He is a member of the Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology, the Italian Society of Applied Anthropology, the European Association of Social Anthropology and the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore.
RESEARCH LINES:
He conducts ethnographic research in the areas of urban and contemporary anthropology on the topics of social vulnerability, marginality, policies and tourism between Cape Verde, Portugal and Italy.
DISCIPLINARY GROUP:
M-DEA/01
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