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Classes at the Florence Program are taught by local faculty, the Center Director, and by one Stanford Faculty-in-Residence per quarter. Many professors hold regular appointments at Italian universities or have served in prominent positions in local governments, policy organizations, or research institutes. Courses are taught in Italian unless otherwise noted.

Upcoming Faculty-in-Residence

QUARTER PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT
Autumn 2009-10 Giovanna Ceserani Classics
Winter 2009-10 Alessandro Barchiesi Classics
Spring 2009-10 Fiorenza Micheli
Anne Kiremidjian		 Biology
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Autumn 2010-11 Leonard Ortolano Civil and Environmental Engineering
Winter 2010-11 Bissera Pentcheva Art and Art History
Spring 2010-11

Eric Bettinger

Education
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Local Faculty

Khaled Fouad Allam
A native of Algeria, Khaled Fouad Allam is a sociologist and a specialist of the Muslim world who teaches at the University of Trieste and the University of Urbino, as well as at the Stanford Program in Florence. In April 2006, Allam was elected to Italy’s Chamber of Deputies.
In addition to his academic and political commitments, Professor Allam has been an editorialist and columnist for the national Italian newspaper La Repubblica since 2003; prior to that he wrote for another national Italian newspaper, La Stampa
He writes on Islam, in particular on issues connected to immigration, and on the Arab world. His course at Stanford focuses on the sociological aspects of Islamic immigration to Italy and to Europe, the challenges of integration, and the notion of Islamic identity abroad.
Allam’s publications include:
  • L’islam contemporaneo in AAVV Storia delle religioni, vol. III: Le religioni dualiste e l’islam (Laterza, 1995);
  • L’islam globale (Rizzoli, 2002) (German translation: Der Islam in einer globalen Welt (Wagenbach, Berlin, 2004));
  • Lettera a un kamikazeem (Rizzoli, 2004)
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Ermelinda M. Campani
Ermelinda M. Campani has been Director of Stanford’s Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence since 1993. A native of Emilia Romagna, she earned a master’s degree in Italian literature and a Ph.D. in film studies from Brown University. Prior to joining Stanford University, she taught courses at both Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design and served as acting director of the Brown University Program in Bologna, Italy. She has been a member of the steering committee of the Association of American College and University Programs in Italy since 1993.
Her areas of research include: contemporary Italian cinema, early silent cinema, 1930s and 40s cinema, classical Hollywood cinema, and post-structuralist film theory. Her publications include a monographic work on Bernard Bertolucci, a book on cinema and the sacred (translated into French in 2007), and a book on cinema's representations of the human body. She is currently working on a book on Italian cinema under the Fascist regime and discovering long forgotten archives on the topic.
An expert on a vast range of subjects within film theory, she lecures widely, has published in numerous Italian, German, and U.S. journals, periodicals and encyclopedias and serves as a film critic for a national Italian newspaper. In 1999, she was a visiting professor at Yale University and has taught frequently on Stanford's main campus.
Campani has received various awards for her work, including that of the Centro Studi Americani, Rome.
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Pompeo Della Posta
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Pompeo Della Posta holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Warwick. He is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Pisa and the author or editor of a number of books including Globalization, Development and Integration (Edited by Pompeo Della Posta, Milica Uvalic and Amy Verdun, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Effetti Potenzialità e Limiti della Globalizzazione: una Visione Multidisciplinare (with Anna Maria Rossi, Springer, 2007), and many articles on issues relating to International (Monetary) Economics in periodicals such as The Journal of Policy Modeling, Open Economies Review, and Current Politics and Economics of Europe.

His recent publications include, among others:
Mercato del lavoro, domanda aggregata e politiche economiche: Riflessioni teoriche e analisi empiriche per un confronto fra Europa e Stati Uniti, (editor, with Enrico Ghiani) (PLUS, 2004); “Strategic interactions among central bank and national fiscal authorities in a monetary union subject to asymmetric country shocks” (with Valeria De Bonis), Open Economies Review (forthcoming); “Self-fulfilling Currency Attacks with Biased Signals” (with Bruno Cheli), Journal of Policy Modeling (2007); “Making sense of fiscal rules” (with Valeria De Bonis), Current Politics and Economics of Europe (2007); “Non credible intervention commitments and the 1992-93 EMS crisis,” Economia Internazionale/International Economics (2002).
 

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Paolo Galluzzi

Paolo Galluzzi received a degree from the University of Florence in 1968 where he studied under Eugenio Garin. From 1970 to 1980, he was a Researcher at the Lessico Intellettuale Europeo in Rome where he was responsible for the production of the monumental Lessico delle opere di Galileo on digital support. From there, he was appointed Professor of the History of Science at the University of Siena and, since 1994, he has been a Full Professor of History of Science at the University of Florence. Recently, he was Visiting Professor to the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He has also held courses and seminars at Princeton University, at UCLA, at the University of Hamburg, at the Centre Koyré, at the Ecole des Haute Etudes (Paris) and at New York University, as well as in many other universities and institutes around the world.

In addition to his teaching and scholarly commitments, since 1982 he has been Director of the Istituto e Museo Nazionale di Storia della Scienza in Florence. Professor Galluzzi is also actively involved in many prestigious organizations and publications dedicated to science.

His numerous publications focus on the activity of the scientists and engineers of the Renaissance, on several aspects of science during the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, on scientific terminology, on the activities of Galileo and his school, on the history of the European scientific academies and on the birth and history of the historiography of science. His studies have also included the history of scientific instrumentation, of scientific museums and of scientific heritage. During the past 15 years, he has been involved in the preparation of multimedia applications designed as resources and tools for researchers and the public alike.

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Giuseppe Mammarella
Professor Giuseppe Mammarella is an historic figure for the Stanford in Florence program, which he directed from 1960 to 1993. He remains a point of reference for many Stanford in Florence alumni, and his course on the history of modern Italy continues to draw enthusiastic students eager to take advantage of his wealth of knowledge.
Mammarella is a cofounder and vice president of the International University of Art in Florence. A well-known journalist and an expert on American politics, he makes frequent appearances on Swiss television. He is the author of numerous books, many of which have been translated the world over, on the history of the Italian Republic, twentieth-century history, American politics, and the relationship between Europe and the United States.
His most recent publications include:
  • Destini incrociati: Europa e Stati Uniti 1900- 2003 (Laterza, 2005);
  • L'eccezione Americana: La politica estera statunitense dall'indipendenza alla guerra in Iraq (Carocci, 2005);
  • Liberal e conservatori: L'America da Nixon a Bush (Laterza, 2004)
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Leonardo Morlino
A professor of political science at the University of Florence from 1983 through 2006, Leonardo Morlino is currently a professor at the Istituto di Scienze Umane in Florence, a higher education institute. A leading specialist in comparative politics with expertise on southern Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece) and the phenomenon of democratization, he is the author of several books and more than 150 journal essays and book chapters published in English, French, German, Spanish, Hungarian, and Japanese.
Professor Morlino is particularly well-known for Democracy Between Consolidation and Crisis: Parties, Groups, and Citizens in Southern Europe (Oxford University Press, 1998), a thorough, in-depth comparative analysis of parties, interest groups, and citizens’ attitudes in the four southern European countries through the process of their consolidation and crises.
His most recent publications include:
  • Assessing the Quality of Democracy (Johns Hopkins U.P. 2005), as co-editor and co-author;
  • Democracias y Democratizaciones (Il Mulino, 2006)
Morlino’s ties to Stanford reach back more than fifteen years. In 2002-03 he was the Bechtel Visiting Professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business; in 1995 a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution; and in 1989-90 a NATO Fellow of the Center for European Studies. His academic credentials also include stints as the Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1998); visiting professor at the Juan March Institute, Madrid (1995-96); and visiting professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris (1993-95). Since 2003 he has been a member of the International Political Science Association’s executive committee and the deputy rector of the University of Florence.
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Fiorenza Quercioli
Holding a degree from the University of Florence and an M.A. from the University of Venice, Fiorenza Quercioli is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Florence. She has extensive experience teaching Italian as a second/foreign language and for the past ten years has been the Language Resource Person at the Stanford Program in Florence, where she teaches courses on Italian language and culture and designs individualized programs for language acquisition and extracurricular language activities.
Quercioli has worked for several Italian institutions, both public and private, doing teacher training, and she also tutors graduate students attending the module on “Didactics of the Italian Language” (master’s in teaching Italian to foreign students) at the University of Venice. She is a member of ILSA (Association of Teachers of Italian as a Second Language), the oldest professional association in the field, and the American Association of Teachers of Italian.
She has published several articles relating to the teaching and acquisition of Italian as a second/foreign language. Her courses are strongly focused on communication and culture so that grammar and vocabulary are always presented in a complete communicative context. Through the analysis of material such as songs, newspaper articles, video clips, and literature, students are guided to develop language skills: understanding and speaking, reading, and writing in Italian.
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Filippo Rossi

After receiving a degree with high distinction in art history from the University of Florence, Filippo Rossi earned a certificate in “Planning and Managing Cultural Events and Enterprises” at the Arts International University of Florence. In 1990, he enrolled at the “Scuola Libera del Nudo” of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence where he worked with Maestro Vignozzi. Since 1997 Rossi has also worked with Professor Mons. Timothy Verdon in the Archdiocese of Florence’s office, which deals with catechesis through art.

A well-known painter, Rossi has had solo art exhibits in Milan, Bologna, Venturina, Florence, Barcelona, Trento, and Parma, to name a few. Recent awards include the “Under 30 Awards” for Etruriarte 10 and the XVI Italian award for the visual arts, held in Palazzo Pretorio, Certaldo.

Professor Rossi has been teaching painting and drawing to Stanford students since 2000 and helping them organize an art exhibit at the end of each quarter. He also co-teaches “Sharing Beauty: Florence and the Western Museum Tradition” and “Space as History: Urban Change and Social Vision: Florence 1059-2008” with Professor Timothy Verdon. Rossi is president of Ars et Fides - Firenze, a prestigious organization which aims at sharing the deeper meaning of religious art and monuments to visitors thanks to a network of volunteer guides. Rossi also writes art reviews for several magazines specializing in art and art history, including FlashArt, Il Corriere dell’Arte, Next, D’ARS Agency, Eco d’Arte Moderna, Il Giornale dell’Arte, Firenze Informa, and Toscana Oggi. He also works for http://www.disegnamo.it, a website devoted to painting and drawing, and is artistic consultant for http://www.neropaco.net/, a Florence-based web agency. He has also authored several catalogues for Italian painters such as E. Savelli, T. Bonanni, A. Bimbi, G. Risito, and A. Facchini.

Rossi recently completed an important commission for a chapel at Careggi, Florence's University Hospital, and is currently working on a project for the new Meyer Pediatric Hospital. Rossi also represented Italy at the VI International Biannual Festival of Contemporary Art in Florence (2007).

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Timothy Verdon
A Ph.D. from Yale University, Timothy Verdon is a former Fulbright Fellow as well as a fellow of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He is the author of a number of books and articles on Renaissance artists, including Masaccio, Donatello, Michelozzo, Piero della Francesca, Ghirlandaio, Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci, Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and Frá Bartolomeo.
His most recent publications include:
  • Maria nell’arte fiorentina, (Mandragora, Firenze 2002);
  • Arte e catechesi: La valorizzazione dei beni culturali in senso cristiano (EDB, Bologna 2002);
  • Vedere il mistero: Il genio artistico della liturgia cattolica (A. Mondadori, Milano, 2003);
  • Maria nell’arte europea (Electa, Milano, 2004);
  • La Basilica di San Pietro: I Papi e gli artisti (A. Mondadori, Milano 2005);
  • Michelangelo Teologo (Ancora, Milano, 2005);
  • L’Arte cristiana in Italia. vol. I., (Ed. San Paolo, 2005)
  • Attraverso il Velo: Come leggere un'immagine sacra (Ancora, Milano, 2007).
He has taught art history at Yale, Syracuse University, Florida State University, and Georgetown. The five art history courses he teaches at the Stanford center, which normally enjoy the program’s highest enrollment figures, engage students in a deep analysis of Italian Renaissance masterpieces through on-site classes, which Verdon likes to describe as “street theater.”
Professor Verdon is also a Roman Catholic priest who serves as the canon of the Florence Cathedral and chamberlain of the Cathedral Chapter. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Opera del Duomo.
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