Michelangelo Giampaoli

Michelangelo Giampaoli

Visiting Lecturer, Anthropology

PhD, Urban Anthropology, State University of São Paulo “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Brazil

elmiche@uic.edu

I am anthropologist and cultural heritage curator, graduated in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (2004) and in Anthropological Sciences (2006) at the University​ of Perugia, where for several years I taught Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Medicine​ and Surgery. I also have a PhD in Ethnology and Anthropology (2010), a post-doc in Medical Anthropology (2011-2014) and another post-doc in Urban Anthropology (2016). For many years now I have been involved in research and enhancement of cemeteries as places of collective​ memory and daily life, in Italy, Brazil and France, publishing two books and many papers. In recent years I participated​ in international research, carried out in Italy and Brazil, on public health​, community empowerment and the experiences of deinstitutionalization in mental health.

I also taught​ Urban Anthropology and Anthropology of the Imaginary at the UNESP of Araraquara​ and Cultural Anthropology and History of Religions at the Centro Universitário​ Barão de Mauá of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.