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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 2007-08 Laurence Baker Health Research & Policy
Winter 2007-08 Terry Karl Political Science
Spring 2007-08 Roger Romani Physics
Autumn 2008-09 Kenneth Schultz Political Science
Winter 2008-09 Carolyn Springer French and Italian
Spring 2008-09 Joan Ramon Resina Spanish and Portuguese
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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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Giulio Cifarelli
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Giulio Cifarelli holds a B.A. in Economics from Oberlin College, a laurea in Economics from the University of Siena and a Ph.D. in Economics from Cambridge. Cifarelli is Full Professor with tenure of International Economics at the University of Florence. He has taught History of Monetary Theory, Political Economy, Monetary Economics, Econometrics and International Economics at a number of prestigious institutes of higher education including LUISS (Rome), University of Siena, University of Rome II (Tor Vergata) and Westminster. A Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Finance, he is the author of a great body of literature in the field of economics and is a frequent contributor to important periodicals such as Emerging Markets Review, the Journal of International Money and Finance, Global Finance Journal and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Cifarelli is an expert on emerging markets as well as U.S. and European markets. His recent publications include, among others:
(2008), "The Buffer Stock Model Redux? An Analysis of the Dynamics of Reserve Accumulation", Open Economies Review, on line issue.

(2008), "Reserve Overstocking in a Highly Integrated World. New Evidence from Asia and Latin America", European Journal of Finance, 14, pp. 315-336.

(2007), "The Buffer Stock Model Redux? An Analysis of the Dynamics of Reserve Accumulation", Working Paper n. 3, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Firenze.

(2006), "The International Reserves Glut: Is It for Real", Studi e Discussioni n. 142, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Firenze. Paper presented at the 47th Annual Conference of the Società Italiana degli Economisti held in Verona in October 2006.

(2006), "Volatility Co-Movements Between Emerging Market Bonds: Is There Segmentation Between Geographical Areas?", Global Finance Journal, 17, p. 1-19.

(2005), "Volatility Linkages Across Three Major Equity Markets: A Financial Arbitrage Approach", Journal of International Money and Finance, 24, pp. 413-439.

(2004), "The Impact of the Argentine Default on Volatility and Co-Movements in Emerging Bond Markets", Emerging Markets Review, 5, pp. 427-446.

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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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Charles Loverme
Charles Loverme’s diploma in fine arts, photography, and studio arts comes from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the largest all-elective studio program in the United States. He received his master of fine arts in electronic media arts from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Loverme has held solo exhibitions of his work, which presently resides in between disciplines and technology while exploring issues of identity, in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, and Florence.
His video pieces have been screened at the Rome Fiction Overdose Festival, Mobius (Boston), The Euro Underground Film and Video Festival, the Knitting Factory (New York City), and Blackchair Productions (Seattle) and broadcast through PBS’s Unquote Television.
Loverme has organized and participated in numerous conferences and made presentations at many institutions including The School of Visual Arts in New York City, the Society of Photographic Education in Detroit, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Studio Art Centers International in Florence. His writings on contemporary culture have been published in Proceedings, Trend, and Designer. The recipient of many grants and awards, Loverme is listed in Who’s Who of American Artists. Loverme teaches an introductory course to black-and-white photography for the Stanford in Florence program.
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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” 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 disegnamo.it, a website devoted to painting and drawing. He has authored several catalogues for Italian painters such as E. Savelli, T. Bonanni, A. Bimbi, G. Risito, and A. Facchini.
He has recently been working on two important pieces for a chapel at Careggi, Florence's University Hospital, and the new Meyer Pediatric Hospital. Finally, he recently represented Italy at the VI International Biannual Festival of Contemporary Art in Florence.
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Emanuela Scarpellini
Emanuela Scarpellini holds a Ph.D. in History of European Society from the University of Milan where she is Associate Professor of History teaching courses to undergraduate and graduate students of History and the Humanities and Journalism.
Professor Scarpellini has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Cambridge University (UK). She is the recipient of the Rockefeller Archive Center Grant, the Hagley Center Grant for Scholarly Research and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship for her research in the United States. She was Kratter Professor at Stanford University in 2004 and Fulbright Visiting Professor at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) in 2006.
Her research interests fall into two main fields: the political and cultural history of Fascism, publishing books and articles about Fascist propaganda, Italian theatre during the regime, and the Second World War; and the economic and social aspects of Italian and European modernization in the second half of 20th century — with particular regard to the development of consumer society, the spreading of mass culture from the U.S., the changes in the trade structure, and the role of political parties.
Among her recent publications are:
  • Comprare all’americana (Bologna: Il Mulino 2001) — finalist for best history book published in 2001 for the Association of Italian Contemporary Historians (SISSCO);
  • Shopping American-Style: The Arrival of the Supermarket in Postwar Italy, Enterprise & Society, vol. 5 no. 4, December 2004 (Newcomen Article Prize for best article 2004)
Scarpellini has recently written a history of Italian entrepreneurs and edited a book about the influence of consumption and consumer culture on the political and economic structures of Europe. She is also a frequent contributor to several historical and cultural reviews, to Italian newspapers and to historical radio and television programs.
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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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Luisa Vierucci
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A “Ricercatrice” at the University of Florence, Department of Political Science, Professor Vierucci is an expert on International Law specializing in Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law and European Union Law. Her research interests also include the applicability of international humanitarian law in non-international armed conflicts, biotechnologies and the laws of war and the legal status of NGOs in contemporary international law.
Prof. Vierucci did her undergraduate work at the University of Florence and holds a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute. She was a visiting research fellow at Harvard Law School and at the University of Oxford, Balliol College, Faculty of Law.
She has published widely in her field in important journals and periodicals such as the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the European journal of international law and the Rivista di Diritto Internazional.
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