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Valentina Napolitano

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Anthropology

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Anthropology
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  • University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, 19 Russell St, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S2, Canada

BIO

Dr. Valentina Napolitano is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Her work engages with anthropological, political theological and critical theory debates about personhood, migration, traces, borderlands, and the religious. Among other work, she is the author of two monographs (Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return: transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church, 2016 FUP and Migration, Mujercitas and Medicine Man: living in Urban Mexico UCP, 2002) and different edited collections and articles (for a list of publications see here).

She is working now on Theopolitics, Francis as a Criollo Pope as well as on Churches as living infrastructures at the US/Canada borderland. Valentina is the recipient of the Connaught Global Challenge Award on Entangled Worlds: Sovereignty, Sanctities and Soil (with Prof. Simon Coleman) and herself navigating different threads of life through the soil and histories of the Americas, the trans- Mediterranean and West Africa.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Connaught Scholar
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2018 - present
  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, Toronto, Canada2016 - present
  • Visiting Fellow
    University of London, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, United KingdomFeb 2020 - Mar 2020
  • Fellow
    Princeton University, The Centre for Theological Inquiry, Princeton, United StatesSep 2017 - Apr 2018
  • Visiting Professor
    University of Utrecht, Department of Religious Studies, Utrecht, NetherlandsOct 2016 - Nov 2016
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, Toronto, Canada2010 - 2016
  • Director
    University of Toronto, Latin American Studies Program, Toronto, Canada2011 - 2015
  • Visiting Professor
    University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology, Berkeley, United StatesSep 2011 - Jun 2012
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, Toronto, Canada2006 - 2010
  • Life Fellow
    University of Cambridge, Clare Hall, Cambridge, United Kingdom2003 - present
  • Lecturer (tenured position)
    University of Sussex, Department of Anthropology, Brighton, United Kingdom2003 - 2006
  • Research Officer
    University of Cambridge, Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge, United Kingdom1996 - 2002
  • Research Fellow
    University of Cambridge, Clare Hall College, Cambridge, United Kingdom1999 - 2003
  • Lecturer and Research Fellow
    University of London, Institute of Latin American Studies, London, United Kingdom1995 - 1996

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Social Anthropology
    University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom1995
  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Social Anthropology
    University of London, The London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom1988

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • French
  • Spanish - Latin American
  • Italian

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