Cristiana L.M. Giordano
Assistant Professor, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616, USA
Telephone: (530) 752-0745
Fax: (530) 752-8885
Office Hours for Spring 2012:
- Mondays 12:00-2:00 pm or by appointment
Education:
- 2006, Ph.D., Anthropology, UC Berkeley
- 2001, M.A., Anthropology, UC Berkeley
- 1996, B.A., Philosophy, Università di Pavia (Italy)
Biography:
Interests
Medical and psychological anthropology; psychoanalysis; ethno-psychiatry; subjectivity; theories of translation; migration; human rights; citizenship; anthropology of the state and the law; Italy, Europe, and the Mediterranean.
Selected Work
"Translating Fanon in the Italian Context: Rethinking the Ethics of Treatment in Psychiatry." In Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol.48, No.3, July 2011.
"Practices of Translation and the Making of Migrant Subjectivities in Contemporary Italy." In American Ethnologist, Vol.35, No. 4, November 2008.
"Reflections on Translation in Between the Clinic and Anthropology." In Taliani, S. and Vacchiano, F. (eds.), Altri corpi. Antropologia ed etnopsicologia della migrazione, Edizioni Unicopoli, Milano, 2006.
"Perdersi e ritrovarsi: qualche riflessione sui percorsi della soggettività." InOltrecorrente. Rivista di filosofia, No. 6, December 2002.
Current Projects
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/349197341/a-bitter-place-stories-of-nigerian-trafficking-to
