Research experience
 
09.2017-present                     Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Dept. of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, University of Messina
 
09.2011–08.2017                    Rita Levi Montalcini Fellow: ‘Land transactions in South Lebanon’, University of Pisa
 
10.2016–02.2017                    Visiting Staff Member, Queens’ University, Belfast
 
04.2016–07.2016                    Visiting Staff Member, University of Fribourg
 
01.2013–12.2015                    Participant in the Marie Curie Project PIRSES-GA-2013-318961: ‘Imagining Development: A multidisciplinary and multilevel analysis of development policies and their effect in the post-socialist world’. Visiting lecturer at Tbilisi State University
 
03.2008–04.2009                    Post-doc Fellow, University of Fribourg - Swiss National Foundation Individual Grant ‘Political Mobilization in Turkey’, Adnan Menderes University
 
11.2005–11.2007                    Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow, University of Kent: ‘Martyrdom in the Middle East’, by reference to Christian enclaves in Lebanon, Israel, Occupied Territories, Eastern Anatolia
 
05.2005–10.2005                    Research Fellow, Institute of Political Studies San Pio V, Rome: ‘Martyrdom as a political strategy in Lebanon: Dbayyé refugee camp’
 
03.2003–03.2004                    Pre-doc Marie Curie Fellow, University of Ulster, Londonderry
 
07.2000–06.2002                    Researcher, Gioiosa Marea City Council, research on the history of the city (including a history book)
 
01.1999–04.2000                    Researcher, Armando Siciliano, Messina, research on the history of the city of Tindary (including an history book)
 
09.1997–12.1998                    Researcher, ARCI ‘13 ottobre 1957’, Raccuja, research on the Agrarian Risings of the Fifties in northern Sicily (including an history book)
 
09.1996–08.1997                    Researcher, San Piero Patti City Council, on the history of the village in the XVI century (finalized to an historical parade)
 
 
Teaching experience (since academic year 2009/10)
 
(present)                                 Lecturer in ‘Fundamentals of Cultural Anthropology’ (6 ects, in Italian), FIT Programme, University of Messina
 
(present)                                 Lecturer in ‘Cultural Anthropology’ (6 ects, in Italian), Dept. of Ancient and Modern Civilizations, University of Messina
 
2016/18                                   Lecturer in ‘Divided Societies and Fundamentalism’ (3 ects, in English), Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg
 
2016/17                                   Lecturer in ‘Power-Sharing, Multiculturalism and International Cooperation’ (6 ects) and ‘Conflict Analysis in Divided Societies’ (6 ects, in English, blended learning), Inter-departmental Ma Programme in Sciences for Peace, University of Pisa
 
2013-14/2015-16                     Lecturer in ‘Power-Sharing, Multiculturalism and International Cooperation’ (6 ects, in English), MA Programme in Sciences for Peace, University of Pisa
 
2012-13/2014-15                     Lecturer in ‘Cultural Anthropology’ (6 ects, in Italian), Dept. of Social and Political Science, University of Pisa
 
2012-13                                   Lecturer in ‘Anthropology of Violence’ (in Italian), MA Programme on Conflict Management & Mediation, University of Pisa
 
2012-13                                   Lecturer in ‘Equality and discriminatory dynamics’ (in Italian), MA Programme in Management of Participatory Processes, University of Pisa and University of Florence
 
2011-2012                               Lecturer in ‘Anthropology of Violence’ (in Italian), Dept. of Social and Political Science, University of Pisa
 
2010-2011                               Lecturer in ‘Religious Conflicts in Contemporary World: an anthropological perspective’ & ‘Religions and Conflict’ (in English), Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg
 
2009-2010                               Lecturer in ‘Power Sharing and Multiculturalism’ and ‘Divided Societies in Contemporary World’ (in English), Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg
 
 
Education

 

10.2001 – 07.2007                  European Doctorate in Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Deusto, Bilbao. Thesis title: Challenges in data collection in a violently divided society: the Case of Northern Ireland. Research areas: challenges in data collection, Northern Ireland

 

10.2001 – 10.2005                  Doctorate in Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Peace Research & Strategic Studies, University of Leuven. Thesis title: Death Management and Conflict Dynamics: A Study of the 1980-81 Irish National Liberation Army Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland. Research area: Conflict Impact Assessment, NI

 
09.1995 – 11.1997                  PGD & Master in Peace Studies, University of Ulster. Thesis title: Power, Space, Identity: A Contribution to Understanding Conflict. Case study: Derry City. Research area: Northern Irish conflict
 
09.1988 – 07.1992                  Bachelor in Political Science, University of Messina, IT – including one academic year (1990-91) as Erasmus, Dept. of European Studies, University of Limerick
 
 
Languages
 
Italian, Sicilian:                      Mother tongues
 
English, French:         Excellent knowledge
 
 
VQR 2011-2014: 1 + 1
 
 
Affiliations
 
Executive Secretary Commission on Urban Anthropology (CUA), International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
 
Bulletin Co-editor CUA, IUAES
 
Co-editor Series Asintoti (Armando Siciliano)
 
Ordinary Enrolment Italian Society for Authors and Publishers (DOR: author of literary part)
 
Associate Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre Science for Peace, University of Pisa
 
Reviewer: Anthropology Today, International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society, National Identities, Post-Socialist Studies Series (I.B.Tauris), Turkish Studies
 
Editorial Board: Urbanities, Turkish Culture and Haci Bektas Veli Research Quarterly, Studies of Transition States and Societies
 
 
Selection of seminars and conferences since August 2013
 
03.2018                             Seminar paper, Integralismo e Multiculturalità, Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Borghese-Faranda, Patti
 
01.2018                             Seminar paper, Riflessioni sulle variabili possibili della contronarrativa del terrorismo, University of Siena
 
10.2017                             Seminar paper, La crisi in Medio oriente: i Migranti verso l’integrazione, Istituto Comprensivo La Pira, Messina
 
09.2017                             Workshop IUS-Commission on Urban Anthropology, Erosions of Legitimacy and Urban Futures: Ethnographic Research Matters, 10-16 September 2017, Gioiosa Marea, Messina. Paper presented: Conflicting Loyalties and Legitimate Illegality in Urban South Lebanon.
 
08.2017                             Institute for Peace and Dialogue, School of Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation, Mediation, Security, Intercultural Dialogue & Human Rights, Baar, 10-19 August 2017. Twelve hours lectures on ‘Challenges in gathering data in a number of conflictual societies, including Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Turkey and some South Caucasian loci’
 
07.2017                             Conference IUAES-CUA and University of Peloponnese, The Formal and the Informal in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Insights, Corinth, Grecia, 7-9 July 2017. Paper presented: ‘Formal and Informal Governance in the Lebanon: New Challenges Raised by the Syrian Conflict’
 
03.2017                             Eight Hours Seminar papers, Erasmus staff mobility programme, Outgoing from Pisa, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin
 
03.2017                             ‘Costruire la Pace è possibile: insieme per conoscere e capire’, Diocesis of San Miniato. Conference paper: ‘On Syrian Refugees’,
 
02.2017                             Institute for Peace and Dialogue, School of Peacebuilding…, Baar Switzeland, 8 hours lecture on ‘Land Transactions in Divided Societies in Lebanon’ & ‘Martyrological Traditions in Northern Ireland’
 
11.2016                             International Diyarbakir Symposium 2016, Dicle University Congress Hall, Diyarbakir. Paper presented: (with A. Taşkın), Demographic Changes and the Law: A preliminary Study on Diyarbakir
 
11.2016                             International ASCN Alumni Network Series of Lectures, Marriott Armenia Hotel, Yerevan. Conference paper: Minorities in the Middle East and Contemporary Religiously-Driven Violence
 
10.2016                             Seminar paper, La crisi in Medio oriente: i Migranti, qiale integrazione? Istituto Comprensivo di Roccalumera, Centro Sociale Giovanni Paolo II
 
09.2016                             Marie Curie IAPP Summer School for ‘Shadow Economies in Europe and Beyond: Debating the causes and impacts of informal economies’, 2-4 September 2016, Sofia. Paper presented: Book-launching Informalities on the Right Side of a Nineteen Century Walnut Table
 
07.2016                             Easa2016 Biannual Conference, ‘Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures’, Milan. Panel convenor (with J. Dingley): ‘Science, Modernity and the Attack on Religion: Explaining Religious terrorism’. Paper presented: Comparing Sectarian Migration Waves: the Beqaa and Georgia
 
05.2016                             Conference paper: Ethno-religious Waves: mapping determinants in refugees’ choices in Lebanon and Georgia, ‘Workshop on Peripheries’, Ilia State University Tbilisi and Academic Swiss Caucasus Net.
 
12.2015                             Conference ‘Diversità Linguistica e Cultura al Plurale’, Session: ‘Lingua, cultura e identità: prospettive antropologiche, linguistiche e semiotiche’, Sala dei Dodici, Palazzo dei Cavalieri di Santo Stefano, University of Pisa. Invited Discussant 'Nuove topografie belliche: l'opzione Sansone e le tradizioni martirologiche di al-Nusra e Daesh',
 
11.2015                             Conference ‘Per non Dimenticare Hiroshima e Nagasaki’, Session: ‘Le Armi atomiche ci riguardano?’, Sala dei Dodici, Palazzo dei Cavalieri di Santo Stefano, University of Pisa. Conference paper: Nuove topografie belliche: l’Opzione Sansone e le tradizioni martirologiche di al-Nusra e Daesh'
 
10.2015                             Doctoral Workshop ‘Academic Writing and Effective Presentation’, Social Innovation Doctoral School, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius. Invited Discussant
 
09.2015                             25-28.09.2015 Academic Swiss Caucasus Net visiting lecturer, Yerevan State University. Programme: (25.10): The Last Ezidi massacre and the New Temple in Tbilisi, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography; (27.09): Workshop on Minorities in the Caucasus, Dept. of Cultural Studies; (28.09), guest lecture: On Challenges in Data Collection in Violently Divided Societies: the case of Lebanon and Northern Ireland
 
09.2015                             Seminar paper: Ethical Issues in Ethnography, Tbilisi State University
 
06.2015                             CUA-IUAES Annual Conference: ‘The Global Financial Crisis and the Moral Economy: Local Impacts and Opportunities’, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Paper presented: How the Crisis Helped Informality to Re-enter the Temple: a New Sicilian Custom
 
05.2015                             Conference Integrim Scientific Thematic Workshop - WP2, ‘Citizenship and Political Participation’, University of Liege. Paper presented (with A. Polese): Formal and informal mechanisms of integration: do different religious belonging lead to different paths? Lebanon and Georgia as case studies
 
04.2015                             Seminar paper: From Sinjar to Tbilisi: when religious persecution encounters religious revival’, University of Fribourg
 
01.2015                             Conference, ‘Fundamentalism, Trans-nationalism and Religious Minorities’, Tbilisi State University. Paper presented: Yezidi Struggle For Survival: From the Last Massacre to the New Temple in Tbilisi Yesidi Struggle for Survival. From the Last Massacre in Sinjar to the New Temple in Tbilisi’
 
11.2014                             Seminar paper: Methodological problems of anthropological research in conflict zones, Tbilisi State University
 
09.2014                             Conference, ‘The Muslim World After the Arab Spring: Changes and Prospects for Islam in the 21^st Century’, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul. Paper presented: Martyrological Traditions and Conflict Prevention: the case of Lebanon
 
06.2014                             Seminar papers, Erasmus staff mobility programme, Outgoing from Pisa: 1) On Data Collection in Conflictual Areas; 2) Violence and Property in South Lebanon, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin
 
05.2014                             Conference, ‘Religious Divided Societies in Contemporary World’, University of Pisa. Paper presented: Land and the Ethno-religious calling: the case of South Lebanon

05.2014                             IUAES 2014 Inter-congress, ‘The Future with/of Anthropologies’, Makuhari Messe, Tokio. Paper presented: Religious exclusion that did not properly work: South Lebanese Christian land at stake
 
11.2013                             Marie Curie-IRSES 2013-16 Conference, ‘Imagining Development: Comparing Theory and Practice of Development in the Post-socialist World’. Tallinn University. Invited Discussant
 
09.2013                             Conference ‘Mahmout Pahlivan & the Turkmen Cultural Life in the XIII Century’, Dashoguz. Paper presented: National Heritage, State Formation: the Legacy in Lebanon & Northern Ireland
 
08.2013                             17^th IUAES World Congress, ‘Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds’, Manchester. Panel convenor (with J. Dingley): ‘Ethnic-religious segregation: the preservation of memory or the preservation of conflict’. Paper presented: Martyrological Traditions & Conflict Prevention: the case of Lebanon

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List of Publications - Marcello Mollica (last update March 2018)
 
Accepted                     (ed.) (with J. Dingley) Understanding Religious Violence: Radicalism and Terrorism in Religion Explored via six Cases Studies, Palgrave Macmillan: New York.
 
Accepted                     ‘Conflicting Loyalties and Legitimate Illegality in Urban South Lebanon’ in Ethnographies of Legitimacy: Methodological and Theoretical Insights, Italo Pardo and Giuliana Prato (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan: New York.
 
Accepted                     ‘Emile Durkheim and the Northern Irish violence: anthropological insights upon James Dingley’ The IRA and Durkheim and National Identity in Ireland, DADA. Rivista di Antropologia post-globale
 
Accepted                     (with B. Panchetti) ‘Narrative inter-religiose e tensioni dialettiche sul reato di adulterio nel sistema consociativo del Libano contemporaneo: le risposte delle Ong inter-confessionali’, VOCI. Rivista di Scienze Umane
 
2018                            ‘Fearing the Intrusion: Illegal but Legitimate Ethno-religious dynamics in Lebanon’, Urbanities, 8:1, 65-69
 
2017                            (with A. Taşkın) ‘Demographic Changes and the Law: A Preliminary Study on Diyarbakır’, in Uluslararasi Sempozyum Diyarbakır - 02-05 Kasım 2016, Diyarbakır: Diyarbakır University Press, pp. 751-755
 
2017                            ‘Book Launching Informalities on the Right Side of a Nineteenth-Century Walnut Table’ in The Informal Economy, Exploring Drivers and Practices, Ioana A. Horodnic, Peter Rodgers, Colin C. Williams and Legha Momtazian (eds), Routledge: New York, pp. 61-72
 
2017                            (with A. Taşkın) ‘Tradition of Tattooing in Siverek, Turkey’, Middle Eastern Studies, 53:2, 271-280
 
2017                            ‘Nuove topografie belliche: l’Opzione Sansone e le tradizioni martirologie di al-Nusra e Daesh’ in Per un mondo libero da armi nucleari, E. Pellecchia (ed.), Pisa: University of Pisa Press, 203-214
 
2016                            ‘How the Crisis Helped Informality to Re-entered the Temple: a New Sicilian Custom’, Urbanities, 6:2, 39-52
 
2016                            Terra e società etniche divise: il caso del Libano del Sud. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore (Isbn: 887442730)
 
2016                            (ed.) Fundamentalism. Ethnographies on Minorities, Discrimination and Trans-Nationalism. Fribourg Studies in Social Anthropology. Münster: LIT Verlag (Isbn: 9783643802019)
 
2016                            ‘Quale Pace per i Cristiani d’Oriente?’. in Interrogarsi per proporre. Le crisi del nostro tempo e l’agire sociale dei cattolici. Atti della X e della XI Tre Giorni Toniolo, F. Amore Bianco (ed.). Fondazione Toniolo. Pisa: Arnus University Book, 155-173
 
2015                            (ed.) Bridging Religiously Divided Societies in the Contemporary World. Pisa: University of Pisa Press.
 
2015                            (with J. Dingley), ‘Sectarian Dynamics of Multi-Cultural Norms and the Law in Lebanon: A Warning for the Future of Northern Ireland’, National Identities, 17:4, 405-431
 
2015                            (with A. Taşkın), ‘Disappearing Old Christian Professions in the Middle East: the case of Diyarbakır Pushee-Makers’, Middle Eastern Studies, 51: 6, 922-931
 
2015                            ‘Recensione di The Irish Republican Army di James Dingley’, Scienza e Pace, 6:1
 
2015                            ‘Geopolitica del conflitto in Siria. Ad un anno e mezzo dal rapimento di padre Paolo Dall'Oglio’, in Padre Paolo Dall'Oglio. Uomo di dialogo ostaggio in Siria, C. Lapi (ed.). Pisa: Pisa University Press, 41-62
 
2014                            ‘Martyrological Traditions and Conflict Prevention: the case of Lebanon’. Conference proceedings. ‘The Muslim World After the Arab Spring: Changes and Prospects for Islam in the 21^st Century’, Seoul: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 145-156
 
2014                            ‘When the Ethnographer Encounters War’, in Anthropology of Fear. Cultures Beyond Emotions, A. Boscoboinik and H. Horakova (eds.), Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology, Münster: LIT Verlag, 205-218
 
2014                            ‘A Post-War Paradox of Informality in South Lebanon: Rebuilding Houses or Destroying Legitimacy’, Studies of Transition States and Societies, 6:1, 34-49
 
2014                            ‘On the Sectarian Dynamics of Law in South Lebanon: A Research Report’, Urbanities, 4:4, 69-73.
 
2014                            Come pelle saldata alle ossa. La sacralità delle mummie della Chiesa Madre di Piraino’. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
2012                            ‘Preface’ in Il culto di San Nicola a Gioiosa Marea. M.I. Crifò Ceraolo, Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
2012                            ‘Political Manipulations: Death and Urban Graveyards Northern Ireland’, in Anthropology in the City: Methods, Methodology and Theory, G. Prato and I. Pardo (eds.), Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, 155-172
 
2012                            ‘The Messina Bridge: Political Conflict Running Roughshod Over Local Issues’, Urbanities, 2:1, 57-67
 
2012                            ‘The Alevi Cultural Centre in Horn-St Gallen, Switzerland: An Exploratory Study’, in II. Uluslararasi Tarihten Bugüne. Alevilik Sempozyumu (23-24 Ekim 2010), A, Erdemir et al. (eds.). Ankara: Cem Vakfi, 133-150
 
2011                            ‘Understanding Determinants: Syrian Orthodox Christians and Security Related Issues in Diyarbakır’, Urban Anthropology, 40:1-2, 109-150
 
2010                            ‘Erosion of Legitimacy: A Lebanese Case of Collapsed Governance’, in Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance in the Mediterranean Region: A Comparative Anthropology, I. Pardo and G. Prato (eds.), Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, 191-209
 
2010                            ‘The Trans-National Journey of a Textile Art, from Hassana to Mechelen and Its Return’, in International Şırnak and Its Vicinity Symposium, N. Doru (ed.), Ankara: Şırnak University Press, 279-293
 
2008                            ‘Ethnography under Fire: Alma el-Shaab Summer 2006’, in Different Approaches to Peace and Conflict Research’, R. Hudson and H.J. Heintze (eds.), HumanitarianNet, Bilbao: University of Deusto Press, 159-182
 
2007                            (with J. Dingley), ‘The Human Body as a Terrorist Weapon: Hunger Strikes and Suicide Bombers’, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 30:6, 459-492
 
2007                            (with M. Ruggeri and M.P. Ricciardi), Le due Gioiose: I bambini raccontano. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
2006                            Diario dal Libano. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
2006                            ‘Piraino: piccolo mondo di cultura’, in La donna e il mare, G. Bonanno (ed.), Palermo: Priulla, 19-22
 
2006                            ‘Challenges in Data Collection in a Violently Divided Society’, in Peace and Conflict: Europe and Beyond, A.I. Gray and I. Al-Marashi (eds.), HumanitarianNet, Bilbao: University of Deusto Press, 21-31
 
2005                            (with T. Duffy) ‘Educational innovation on politically sensitive subjects: a case‐study of interview material involving the bereaved families of the Iraq Nasiriya killings of 12 November 2003’, Journal of Education for Teaching, 31:1, 63-66
 
2005                            (Phd thesis), The Management of Death and the Dynamics of an Ethnic Conflict: A Study of the 1980-81 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland, Leuven: Catholic University of Leuven, no. 91, D/2005/8978/10
 
2005                            (ed) Percorrendo i luoghi della memoria. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
2004                            (with A. Barrinha et al.) ‘From Guernica with Love’, in Conflict Resolution and European Legacies of War, A.I. Gray, D. Kelleher, E. Moxon-Browne (eds.), HumanitarianNet. Limerick: University of Limerick, 29-40
 
2004                            ‘Le due Gioiose e San Giorgio. Storie di Vita Religiosa’. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
2004                            (with T. Duffy), ‘Educational Innovation in Politically Sensitive Fields: a case study of interview material involving the bereaved families of the Iraq Nasirya killings 12.11.2003. In Practice’, Journal of Education for Teaching, 30:2, 179-181.
 
2003                            (documentary script) Piccole Memorie Dimenticate, Piraino City Council 
 
2003                            Gioiosa Marea. Dal Monte di Guardia a Ciappe di Tono e San Giorgio. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
2003                            (theatre play) In Odium Fidei. Giovanni Scolarici da Piraino. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
2002                            Contribution in La Campana per la Pace, Atti del Convegno 25/08/2001. University of Messina. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore, 53-56
 
2000                            Tindari: dalla città greca al culto della Madonna Nera. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
1998                            ‘Preface’ in Raccuja nel dopoguerra. Notizie, scritte murali e immagini. Arci Sicilia. Palermo: La Tipografica
 
1997                            ‘La comunità dei Pescatori di San Giorgio nel distretto di Santa Maria de Monte Carmelo e Tonnare, Minajte’ and ‘Sciabbiche nelle Giuliane delle chiese Parrocchiali di Gioiosa Marea’, in Archeologia delle Tonnare Messinesi’. Messina: Province of Messina Press
 
1997                            (musical script) Petra supra Petra. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore
 
1995                            (with N., Mancuso and M., Saporito) ‘Storie di Fede e di Morte da un Archivio Parrocchiale’, in Atti del Terzo Convegno di Storia dei Nebrodi. Brolo: Armenio Editore, 85-100
 
1995                            (novel) Il Pianto delle Ciaule. Storia di Sicilia ed Andrea. Messina: Armando Siciliano Editore