Faculty Supporting Our Programs in Rome

Dr Edoardo Bemporad

Sustainability, A Simple Thing That's Hard To Do
Edoardo Bemporad is a graduate in Nuclear Engineering and received a Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering at La Sapienza University of Rome in 1995. Prof. Bemporad is a full professor of Materials Science and Technology at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre. He’s been working since 1995 as a research engineer at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, where he is also a lecturer of Fundamentals of Materials Science and Technology, Advanced Techniques for the Biomaterials Characterization, Materials Technologies, Materials for Mechanical Engineering, Materials Corrosion and Protection and instructor of both of the second-year courses Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Prof Bemporad also serves as Coordinator of the section of Mechanical Engineering of Roma Tre Doctorate School in Engineering, Member of the Scientific Board of the Molecular Design department of the National Research Council (CNR), Member of the advisory board of the Italian Interuniversity Consortium on Materials Science and Technology (INSTM), Italian Government representative for the Steel Technology Platform-ESTEP of the European Commission.

He is author of more than 200 papers published in international and national journals, refereed conference proceedings and is peer reviewer on several scientific journals concerning Surface Engineering including: Surface & Coatings Technology, Vacuum, Journal of Materials Science, Thin Solid Films, Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Journal of Materials Research.
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Paola Bonaventura

Fundamentals of Marketing
Paola Bonaventura has a degree from Naples’ Federico II University where she studied business with a dissertation on Packaging as a strategic marketing variable. Gucci case history.

Paola lived in NYC while she worked for Revlon as Global Marketing Director over 10 years ago. Having followed a path of professional training in creative management and various communication techniques, she has worked for several years as a consultant in marketing and personal growth with experience in managerial areas, individual counselling, group facilitation, planning, management and allocation of specialized training courses: marketing and self marketing, effective communication, assertiveness and self-esteem, self empowerment, creative problem solving, public speaking, time management, team building with interactive methodology and experiential workshops. Paola has lectured at La Sapienza University of Rome and also as guest lecturer for AUCIS courses in both Finance and Marketing.
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Dr. Paola Cascinelli

ROMA MGMT 353 Principles of Organizational Theory, Behavior, and Management
ROMA IBUS 30 Fundamentals of International Business
Paola Cascinelli holds a SESS Euro Ph.D. in Socio-Economic and Statistical studies at La Sapienza University of Rome. Her emphasis is in social representations and economic integration in the Mediterranean area. She was an exchange student at the Institute of European Studies (EEI), ULB, Brussels. At present, Dr. Cascinelli is a consultant in leadership, communication and team building for Think Thanks Srl a research and communication agency. She was an instructor of European Integration Policy for the Municipality of San Giorgio a Cremano (Na). She has served as a consultant to many other organizations such as the Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises National Confederation (CNA), European Parliament in Brussels, Centro Interdipartimentale UrbanEco, Studi della Società srl, Gragnano, Napoli and others.
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Dr. Alberto Corbino

ROMA SOCI 310S Italy: Organized Crime and Social Innovation
Alberto Corbino is one of Italy's foremost experts on the co-existence of legitimate and illegitimate systems of government and economies. Dr. Corbino is a human geographer from Naples, as well as a professor, writer, and community builder whose grandfather was one of the writers of the Italian Constitution. His wide knowledge base and his passion for his subject matter combined with his sense of humor make him a compelling lecturer. Dr. Corbino received degrees from the University of Padua and University of Naples - Federico II.
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Moira Egan

ROMA ENRW 350 Reading and Writing Rome
Moira Egan is a National Book Award nominated poet who lives in Rome. She is the author of numerous collections, including Spin (2010), Bar Napkin Sonnets #1-5 (2009), and Cleave (2004), the latter of which was the winner of the First Book Award, Washington Writers' Publishing House and a Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award. Ms. Egan has extensive teaching experience in creative writing and literature both in the US and abroad. She holds degrees from The Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and Bryn Mawr College.
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Dr. Aldo Fanchiotti

ROMA ESSU 360 Sustainability: A Simple Thing That is Hard to Do
Aldo Fanchiotti is a senior professor and head of the School of Engineering's academic committee at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre. Dr. Fanchiotti holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and, in addition to his full professorship in the area of Environmental Applied Physics, he has taught, researched, and published widely in his field. He has a particular research interest in solar and alternative energies.
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Dr. Raffaele Furno

ROMA THPR 310 Performance in Rome/Rome as Performance
ROMA TAAT 320S Applied Theater - Embodied Culture: A Journey Through Theater-Making in Italy
Raffaele Furno just returned to Italy after over ten years in the United States teaching at Northwestern University. His experience and expertise in theatre and performance studies lends itself to the analysis of Rome as performance. A Fulbright scholar and recipient of several important research grants, Dr. Furno obtained degrees from Northwestern, UC Berkeley, and Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples. His research interests include experimental theater, Japanese avant garde theater, Afro-Italian theater, and multiculturalism.
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Dr. Jan Gadeyne

ROMA ARRB 310 From Rome to Baghdad: Change and Continuity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Jan Gadeyne is an archaeologist and ancient art historian with a specialization in early Christian and late antique period Rome. Dr. Gadeyne has received numerous grants for excavation campaigns, particularly for the Roman villa on the Piano della Civita in Artena, as well as awards for research on the urban history of Rome between the 4th and 6th century. In addition to his extensive fieldwork, he has served as a professor, guest lecturer, and site visit facilitator for a number of sites pertaining to his research. He has published and presented widely in his field and has contributed to numerous television and radio documentaries. Dr. Gadeyne holds degrees from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Louvain, Belgium, and has undertaken coursework at both the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana in Rome and the Westfälische Wilhelmuniversität in Münster, Germany.
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Dr. Stefania Gialdroni

ROMA PSLH 360 Italian Political and Legal History since 1946
Stefania Gialdroni is a faculty member at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre. Dr. Gialdroni teaches law at Roma Tre and has a passion for all things interconnected. Her focus on Italy, one of the world's most complex democracies, helps students to unravel the secrets of Italy's fascinating and confounding government. She completed a doctoral thesis in the history, sociology, anthropology and philosophy of European legal cultures which was accepted for joint candidature at the University of Milano-Bicocca and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, obtained her degree in law from Roma Tre and was a Fellow of the International Max-Planck Research School in Comparative Legal History in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Dr. Vicki Kynourgiopoulou

ROMA RMML 350 At Home in Rome: Modern Life in the Eternal City
ROMA AHMA 320 Museum Practices in Rome
ROMA SOIT 310 Food and its Visual Representations
Dr. Vicki Kynourgiopoulou is a conservation heritage expert, having won the UNESCO conservation award for her management plan of WHS Kasbah in Algeria, as well as evaluating and managing conservation heritage projects in Italy, Greece, the UK, Albania, Jordan and Syria. She has taught archaeology and heritage management and has held a number of senior administrative and teaching positions. Dr. Kynourgiopoulou earned her PhD in Architectural History and Urban Planning from the University of Edinburgh, an MA in Cultural Studies and Management from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, and a BA in Archaeology from University of Southampton.
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Ben Scribner

The Southern European Debt Crisis in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
Ben Scribner is completing his doctoral thesis at La Sapienza University of Rome on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. He comes to Rome with an MA in Sociology from the University of Oregon where his areas of focus were Political Economy, Sociology of the Environment, Social Inequality and Sociology of Gender.

Before then, he received a BA in Economics and Sociology from the University of New Mexico, focusing on Political Economy and Developing Economies. Before coming to Rome, Ben taught Communities and Race Relations; Gender in Global Perspective and Sociology of Everyday Life at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts and was teaching assistant at Harvard University in Social Psychology; Human Sexuality and Positive Psychology.

Very active as community organizer and volunteer, Ben has been leading groups of up to 30 people to visit Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 2003. As such, he has facilitated visits for several associations, including Civil Service International, organizing educational visits to communities and human rights groups, non-violence projects and youth media programs.
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Luigi Tocchetti

ROMA IBUS 302 International Finance
ROMA MKTG 300 Principles of Marketing
Luigi Tocchetti is a business and investment consultant with 15 years of experience. He is Senior Financial Advisor at Banknord SIM S.p.A. in Rome, a company which has €2 bln of asset under management. Additionally, he is CEO and manager of Mitica Srl, a company in the retail food and beverages sector, with the brand of Alice Pizza, a restaurant chain he plans to expand in Milan, Barcelona and London. He is funding partner of Sail Group SA de CV RL, a private holding company founded in 2005 by a group of European Investors, whose focus has been geographically the area of Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, which presents high growth opportunities in the real estate market as well as in the tourism related business.

Tocchetti holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York with concentrations in Finance and Macroeconomics, and completed an international exchange at London Business School. In 1996 he received his undergraduate in Economics and Finance, Laurea from Universitá Di Napoli, Federico II where he also once served as an Assistant Professor. He was a member of first prize team in Philip Morris Contest for Best Marketing Strategy among students at all Italian universities in 1994.
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Dr Ferro Trabalzi

Core Course, At Home in Rome
A scholar and actively involved in Community Planning, Local-Global Food Networks, Urban Agriculture and Contemporary Rome, Prof Trabalzi joins AUCIS for the Spring semester, 2013 as professor of one section of our Core Course. Following his degree in architecture from Rome’s first university, La Sapienza, he completed another in sociology. He then went on to UCLA where he was awarded an MA in Urban Planning with an emphasis in Environmental Planning. He stayed on at UCLA for a Ph.D. in Urban Planning with the following dissertation: Regional Networks in Southern Italy: Innovation and Adaptation in the Buffalo Mozzarella Industry.

He has taught and/or lectured at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA; Woodbury University, Los Angeles, California, USA; Department of Community and Regional Planning, College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA; Woodbury University, School of Architecture, Burbank, CA; Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Cape Town University, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa; Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles.

With a host of publications in areas of interest that span across historical and contemporary urban planning to the social, environmental and political implications of the same, Prof Trabalzi serves on and is involved in numerous planning committees and volunteerism in and for the City of Rome.
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