Maria Giulia Pezzi, Ph.D.
Gran Sasso Science Institute – GSSI Cities
e-mail: [email protected]
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Personal data: Maria Giulia Pezzi
Nationality: Italian
Academic Positions - Affiliations: - Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Urban Studies Unit, L’Aquila (IT): July
2015 – present, Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Research Interests: Urban Anthropology, Anthropology of Tourism, Ethnography of Corruption Practives, Political
Anthropology, economics Anthropology
Language skills: Italian (native), English (expert level), German (fluent level) , Spanish (basic level)
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EDUCATION
CURRENT POSITION
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at GSSI, Urban Studies Unit, July 2015 – present
PREVIOUS WORKING – RESEARCH – TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Research Fellow at Università degli Studi di Bergamo, November 2013 – February 2015
PEER-REVIEW SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (articles and book chapters)
Pezzi M.G., 2015. Chanting with Benefits: Instrumental Trust and Familiarity among members of Italian Soka
Gakkai, in Human Affairs, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 28-39
Pezzi M. G., 2014. The benefits of trusting trust: the case of Italian Soka Gakkai, in Revista Ciências da Religião
- História e Sociedade, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 151-171
Pezzi M. G., 2014. L’importanza della “fiducia” tra i membri della Soka Gakkai in Italia, in DADA – Rivista di
Antropologia Postglobale, No. 1 giugno, pp. 133-150
Pezzi M. G., 2014. Lanzarote, “l’isola differente”. Turismo, place branding e la creazione della “Marca
Lanzarote”, in Palaver, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 27-56
Pezzi M. G., 2013. ‘We don't need to copy anyone' César Manrique and the Creation of a Development Model
for Lanzarote, in Urbanities, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 19-32
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Pezzi M. G., 2015. Corruption at the business-politics intersection in the city of Monza, Italy, available from
http://anticorrp.eu/publications/corruption-at-the-business-politics-intersection-in-the-city-of-monza-italy/
OTHER EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Pezzi M. G., 2014. Forum on “Urban Anthropology”(contribution), in Urbanities, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 97-99
AWARDED COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Urban Studies Unit, L’Aquila (IT), July 2015
Research Fellow, at Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo (IT), November 2013
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (ORGANIZATION – COORDINATION)
SEPTEMBER 2015: LA STRATEGIA NAZIONALE PER LE AREE INTERNE (WORKSHOP) AT GRAN SASSO SCIENCE
INSTITUTE
JUNE 2014: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CORRUPTION PRACTICES (WORKSHOP) AT UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI
BERGAMO.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (PAPERS, SESSIONS AND POSTERS PRESENTATION)
OCTOBER 2013: SISTEMA SESTO, NEW CORRUPTION PRACTICES IN ITALY (PAPER) AT UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM
MARCH 2014: UPDATE ON ANTICORRP RESEARCH AGENDA AT HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE, BERLIN
AUGUST 2014: THE ROLE OF THE LAW AND ETHICAL VALUES IN REDEFINING CORRUPTION MECHANISMS IN ITALY
AT EASA 2014 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, TALLINN
OCTOBER 2014: UPDATE ON RESEARCH AGENDA AT EUROPEAN ACADEMY, BERLIN
NOVEMBER 2015: PER TROPPO SUCCESSO. HA L'OPERA ARTISTICA DI CÉSAR MANRIQUE TRASFORMATO L'ISOLA DI
LANZAROTE IN UN'AUTENTICA MESSA IN SCENA? AT ANUAC 2015 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, BOLZANO
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RESEARCH THESES
Pezzi Maria Giulia, 2013. Art and Nature in Lanzarote. The influence of César Manrique on identity
construction and Island tourism, Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie, Graz: KarlFranzens-Universität
Pezzi Maria Giulia, 2008. La Soka Gakkai come ethos: fiducia e riduzione della complessità, Master Thesis,
Università delgi Studi Milano-Bicocca
Pezzi Maria Giulia, 2005. Il mito: trasmissione di sistemi culturali, Bachelor Thesis, Università IULM
AFFILIATION AND POSTS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES – INTERNATIONAL GROUPS
ANTICORRP.eu – Anticorruption Policies Revised, funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework
Programme. Member of WP4 “The ethnographic study of corruption practices”
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