Email: c.sbuttoni@unisg.it

Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 9
fraz. Pollenzo – 12042 Bra (Cn)

 

BIOGRAPHY

Claudia Sbuttoni is a research fellow at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo for the project VITAE: from the vineyard to man for an integrated and sustainable development of the territory. The research project involves the study of the history of wine production in the Langhe region from the post-World War II period to the present; the collection of oral interviews and historical testimonies; and the organization of a network on the sustainability of wine production, from the vineyard to distribution.

From 2022 to 2024, Claudia was a Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire, where she taught courses in contemporary Italian history, Italian literature, and food studies. Claudia holds a PhD in Italian Studies from Columbia University. Her dissertation, “The Value of Dust: Memory and Identity at Italy’s Margins,” is a transnational cultural history that studies the role of institutions in Italy’s borderlands in defining, defending, and memorializing a conception of Italian identity in a contested area. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Italian Studies from New York University.

 

 

SPECIFIC RESEARCH TOPICS
  • Contemporary history
  • Cultural history
  • Memory studies and oral history
  • History of migration and diaspora
  • History of Italian nationalism, fascism and colonialism
  • Postcolonial studies and decolonial thought
  • Transnational studies; marginality and borders

 

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