ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Sociology of the territory and the environment, maritime sociology, sociology of borders and frontiers, urban sociology, sociology of tourism, safety culture, civil protection and sociology of risk.

CURRENT AND RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Social Science and the Sea (SSAS), summer school and research network –  sponsored by the Adriatic Ionian Initiative and Central European Initiative.

• COST Action IS0803 – Re-making the Eastern Borders of Europe

• COST Action IS1203 – In Search of Transcultural memory in Europe.

GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS:

- CeMISS (Military Center of strategic studies, Roma) in 2002,

- NATO “Outreach” fellow in 2004,

- Scholarship holder CNR (Italian National Research Center) in 2003,

- Canadian Faculty Enrichment Grant winner 2005

- Baltic University Program, University of Uppsala, Sweden, with a grant

   of the “C.M. Lerici” Stiftung, Stockholm 2005

- Aleksanteri Institute for Russian and East European Studies, University

  of Helsinki, Finland, 2006 with a grant under the scheme of the

  Finnish-Italian Bilateral Government Agreement 2006

VISITING POSITION:

- University Miguel Hernandez di Elche, Spain, as Erasmus STM (2011);

- University of Montenegro in Kotor, Montenegro, as Central European Initiative Uni-Net Grant holder (2010);

-  National Maritime University of Odessa, Ukraine, with a mobility grant awarded by the University of Teramo (2008);

- Institute of International Relations- IMO, Zagreb, Croatia a Ph.D visiting research student (2002) with a doctoral mobility grant of the University of Trieste.

RECENT SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

-  (2013) “The Evolving Role of the Adriatic Space in the Mediterranean. Challenges and Opportunities” Mediterranean Papers of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Institute of International Affairs, Rome: n.23

-  (2013) “Cross-Border Cooperation and Development. The Case of Former Yugoslavia” (in Italian) Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell’Amministrazione, n. 2/2013: 81-101. DOI: 10.3280/SA2013-002006

-  (2013) “The Adriatic City. Tourism, Citizenship and Identity in a Frontier Maritime Region/La città adriatica. Turismo, cittadinanza ed identità in una regione marittima di frontiera” (in Italian) in R. Deriu (ed.) Contesti mediterranei in transizione. Mobilità turistica tra crisi e mutamento, Milano, Franco Angeli:114-130 ISBN: 978-88-204-5617-7

-  (2013) “Urban Tourism and Nautical Tourism in the Adriatic Multi-city” (in Italian) with Pietro Sabatino, in Sociologia urbana e rurale, 100: 41-58. DOI: 10.3280/SUR2013-100004

-  (2012) “Touring the Frontier: Reinventing the Eastern Adriatic for Tourism”, in Nogués-Pedregal A.M (Ed.), Culture and Society in Tourism Contexts, Emerald Publishing Group, Tourism Social Science Series, Volume 17: 25-56. ISBN: 9780857246837

-  (2012) “World Society and the Sea. From the Mediterranean Model to New Global Ambivalences” (in Slovenian) Emzin Revija za kulturo / Arts Magazine Letnik XXII, {t. 1–2, junij, Mediteran

-  (2010) “Borderland Mimicry. Imperial Legacies, National Stands and Regional Identity in Croatia Istria after the Nineties”, in Narodna Umjetnost t, 47/1, 2010; pp. 7-28, ISSN: 0547-2504

-  (2010) “Performing Maritime Imperial Legacies: Tourism and Cosmopolitanism in Odessa and Trieste.” Anthropological Notebooks,  vol. 16 (1), 2010; p. 37-57, ISSN: 1408-032X

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

-Mediterranean Association of Sociology of Tourism,

-CIVPRO - Civil Protection Network - Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland

- Scientific Committee of the section “tourism, consumption, free time” of the publishing house Franco Angeli

- Scientific Committee of the review “sociological territories” of the publishing house Aracne (Roma)

- Europe and Balkan International Network (coordinated by the Centro di studi sull'Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica – CECOB, University of Bologna),

- Member of the Network “Eastbordnet: Shifting values of money, gender and boundaries at the North-East and South-East of Europe” (coordinatore Center for Research on Social and Cultural Change - CRESC, University of Manchester, UK)

- co-director of the post-graduate course “Divided Societies” at the International University Center of Dubrovnik.