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Ambassador Sergio Silvio Balanzino graduated in Law from the University of Rome and entered the Italian Foreign Service where he served in the Directorate for Economic Affairs and the Press and Information service. Among his foreign assignments he served at the OECD in Paris as secretary to the permanent Italian Mission, in Neuchatel as Vice Consul, in Zurich as Deputy Consul General, and in Nairobi as Counselor. After having served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome as head of the Bureau of the Technical Co-operation Service for developing countries, he became first Counselor in Athens (1975-1978) and then in Ottawa (1978-1980), where he was appointed Minister Counselor until 1982. Both in Athens and Ottawa he was in charge of the NATO Special Secretariat and NATO Affairs. Returning to the Foreign Ministry in Rome, he served in the Department for Development and Co-operation, and was promoted to Minister Plenipotentiary First Class in 1986. He was shortly appointed Deputy Director of the Cultural Relations Directorate at the Foreign Ministry and became Director General in 1988. Mr. Balanzino was Ambassador to Canada from May 1990 to January 1994. He assumed office as Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on February 1, 1994 and was appointed Ambassador in December 1995. Ambassador Balanzino is married to Emanuella Bettoja and has one son. Bruna Capitini, Laurea, received her degree with honors in Italian literature from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. She later took courses in Linguistics and Language Teaching Methodology both at the University of Rome Magistero and at the Center for American Studies as well as a seminar in Language Teaching Techniques at the University of Rome (Political Sciences). Dr. Capitini has taught both Italian and English as a second language at Esso Standard Oil. Presently she teaches Italian and history in the Italian public secondary schools and is engaged in research on the problems of teaching Italian. Eric C. De Sena, defended his Ph.D. thesis in archaeological sciences at the University of Bradford in 2004, "The Supply of Amphora-borne Commodities and Domestic Pottery to Ostia and Rome, ca. AD 50-450: a Pottery-based Study." He earned his M.A. in classical archaeology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. in Mediterranean archaeology from the State University of New York at Albany. He has taught at Saint Mary's College and John Cabot University, both in Rome, since Fall 2003 in addition to serving as an archaeological lab associate at the American Academy in Rome and as co-director of the Porolissum Forum Project in Romania, for which he created and maintains www.porolissum.org . His articles include "Seeing the trees and the forest: Toward a more refined understanding of socio-clutural systems in Classical Antiquity: the case of olive oil," [Archaeologiae 1: 11-32, 2003] and "Reflections on the supply of domestic pottery in Ostia, AD 50-450: evidence from the DAI/AAR excavations," [MAAR 47: 274-286, 2002] among others. Flaminio DiBiagi, full-time professor of Italian at the Rome Center since 1989, graduated from the University of Rome with a doctorate in comparative literature, holds a Ph.D. in Italian literature from New York University and a Master of Arts in Romance Languages from the University of Washington. He has published Sotto l'arco di Tito: le "Farfalle" di Gozzano, a book of literary criticism on the early 1900s poet Guido Gozzano, and Il cinema a Roma: guida alla storia e ai Luoghi dei cinema nella capitale, a book on the history of film production in/about the city of Rome from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th. It also contains a helpful appendix of sites in or near Rome where various films have been shot. Dr. DiBagi has taught Italian (language, film, and literature) in several American universities (most recently as Visiting Professor at the College of Charleston), has published articles on Italian writers and cinema, various essays on Italian-American studies, and has translated classic authors such as Conrad (Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer, Tales of Unrest), London (The Game), and D.H. Lawrence(Kangaroo) from English into Italian. He also edited critical editions of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, and Guido Gozzano's Verso la cuna del mondo: lettere dall'India. Alexander Evers, D.Phil. in Ancient History from Oxford University, has been a Lecturer at ܴrecht University in The Netherlands since 2000. Prior to that, he served as a tutor in Ancient History at Brasenose College in Oxford and also as assistant dean (1998-1999). Outside his academic profession, Professor Evers has been a research assistant for the P.J. Meertens Institute in Amsterdam (2001-2003), chairman of the Liturgy Committee for the 150th anniversary of the restoration of the Episcopal Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in The Netherlands (2002-2003), and a spokesman of the Bishop of Rotterdam, Head of the Diocesan Press Office (2003-2004). He is fluent in Dutch, English, Italian, German, and French. He is also a practising musician, playing organ and piano, both as a soloist and accompanying choirs, and he sings with the Venerabile Cappella 'Giulia' of the Basilica Vaticana of San Pietro in Rome. He has three works forthcoming: "Cyprianus van Carthago: interactic tussen kerk en wereld," in ܴrechtse Studies, "Gratian and the pontifical robe," in Scripta Classica Israelica, and Church, Cities, and People. A Study of the Plebs in the Church and Cities of Roman Africa. Leuven: Peeters. Frederick S. Gilson earned his M.A. and B.A. degrees from New York University and did post-graduate studies at the University of Toronto. He has been an adjunct associate professor of philosophy at Saint Francis College in Brooklyn Heights since 1997, having taught courses such as Theories of Human Nature, Theories of Knowledge, Basic Problems, Metaphysics, Philosophical Theology, Greek Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, and The Philosophical Problem of Christianity. Professor Gilson is currently writing a book on Martin Heidegger. Julia Lenaghan earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University and her B.A. from Princeton University, the topic of her doctoral dissertation being "Portrait Statues of Women during the Roman Empire." In addition to excavating at Naxos (Greece) and Aphrodisias (Turkey), she has served as research and curatorial assistant at the Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, and taught at Saint Stephen's School (Rome) and John Cabot University (Rome). From November 2001-October 2004, she was project manager and author for the Aphrodisias Sculpture Publication Project which will issue three publications on its findings. Claudio Lodici earned his degree at the University of Rome in the school of political science studying international relations and is the author of several research articles on international affairs, security policy, decision-making processes and Third Way policies in the Information Age. He presently works as an advisor for public affairs in the office of the Speaker of the Italian Senate. Prof. Lodici contributed a chapter to a book on labor relations - Storia delle relazioni industriale in Italia - 1958-1970 , co-authored a book on industrial policies in Italy from 1945 to 1984 - Storia della politica industriale in Italia dal dopoguerra ad oggi, but his major work was published in 1996: L'America dei Democratici - da Thomas Jefferson a Bill Clinton, a 398-page volume entirely dedicated to the history of the Democratic Party in the U.S. His most recent book is Third Way - The Global Challenge. Prof. Lodici writes a regular column for The Italian-American Democrat, a newsletter of the Italian-American Democratic Leadership Council, and contributes to Italy's oldest scientific review, La Nuova Antologia, established in Florence in 1866. Roberto Mannino earned a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a diploma from the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. Among his crafts he has worked in intaglio, wood carving, printmaking, and papermaking. He has taught at the Cornell University Rome Program, Temple University's Tyler School of Art in Rome, the San Giacomo Municipal School for Ornamental Arts in Rome, and the Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program in Rome. Sarah Fiona Maclaren received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Rome, Tor Vergata; her dissertation is entitled, "The idea of magnificence in Giovan Battista Piranesi and its meaning in the history of Aesthetics." She holds a Laurea in social sciences [cultural and social anthropology and ethnology] from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, with a paper entitled "Gossip: cultural similarities and differences in verbal communication and back-biting." She has taught at several of the British Schools of Rome, as well as at the Scuola Interpreti e Traduttori, edited parts of La trasmissione del sapere: aspetti linguistici e antropologici, and participated in a research project analyzing the role of computer sciences in social and cultural anthropological studies and its exploitation in ethnographic museums, resulting in the article "Introduzione alle banche dati." John Nicholson received his Ph.D. from the University of Louvain, Belgium. Before joining the faculty of the Rome Center in 1968, he had taught at the University of Ottawa and at Xavier Junior College in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Dr. Nicholson has extensive teaching experience both in the fields of philosophy and history of art. In philosophy he has specialized in theories of art and aesthetics and in history of art he has given courses on the artistic heritage of Italy and of Rome in particular. Dr.Nicholson has often lectured to professional groups on the history, art, and architecture of Rome. Recently he has participated in a European summer program for which he taught a course on the theoretical background of Medieval and Renaissance art. Euridice Orlandino received her Laurea and a Master's degree in traduzione tecnica, scientifica, economica ed editoriale from the Ecole Sup鲩eure d'Interpr괥s et Traducteurs of the University of Paris - Sorbonne. She has been teaching Italian at the DILIT International House in Rome since 2003 and, prior to that, at the Immigration Office for the City of Rome. Professoressa Orlandino is fluent in French, English, and German as well as her native Italian. Maria Palladino, Laurea, graduated from the University of Naples. After passing the Italian State Qualification in English, she taught it for many years in Italian schools. From 1970-1977, she taught Italian to a whole generation of students at the Rome Center. For the past several years she has been an inspector of secondary schools in Italy for the Ministry of Education. In this work she oversees the implementation of programs and the improvement of teaching skills. Philipp Gabriel Renczes, S.J., has been teaching dogmatic theology at the Gregorian University since 2000. He earned his baccalaureate in theology from the Gregorian, his licentiate in theology and patristic science from the Augustianum, and his doctoral degree in theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris. He is fluent in German, English, French, Italian, Ivrit, and Spanish. Father Renczes has also earned a baccalaureate in philosophy from the Hochschule f?ilosophie in Munich and both a diplome d'Etudes Approfondies and a Ph.D. in the history of religions and religious anthropology from the Sorbonne. He has published two works: Agir de Dieu et libert頤e l'homme. Recherches sur l'anthropologie th鯬ogique de Saint Maxime le Confesseur and "L'apporto di Massimo il Confessore a una precisazione dell'antropologia teologica dei Padri," in Il Bene e la Persona nell'Agire. James R. Schwarten earned his Ph.D. in Italian Literature and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has taught Italian at various levels both in Italy and in Wisconsin. He has also taught English as a Foreign Language in Rome at the Quantock Language Institute and in Velletri at the Saint George School of English. His translation of Silvia Mantini's Women's History in Italy: Cultural Itineraries and New Proposals in Current Historiographical Trends appeared in the Journal of Women's History. Giovanni Scichilone, D.Litt., was graduated summa cum laude from the University of Palermo, where he wrote a thesis on problems of archaic Greek architecture in Sicilian colonies. He later received a Fulbright Grant to the American Academy in Rome, a fellowship to the Italian Archeological School in Athens, and after nation-wide competition he received a post at the Villa Giulia, one of Rome's foremost museums. After holding the directorships of several national museums and sites in Italy, he now serves as General Inspector for Archaeology in the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage in Rome. He has held travel scholarships in England, Greece, and Egypt and has done excavations in Crete, Central Italy, and Libya. He has lectured widely in Europe and beyond, and published excavation reports, critical essays, and book reviews on subjects related to the classical world in such periodicals as Archeologia, Enciclopedia dell' Arte Antica, Annali della Facolta di Lettere dell' Universita di Perugia, and Archeologia Classica. He has several publications on various topics in both Archaeology and Museum Studies. Grazia Sotis studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza where she received her doctorate in Anglo-American Literature with a thesis on Nathaniel West. She continued her studies at the University of Connecticut where she received her Ph.D. in comparative literature. She taught in the USA for twelve years at the University of Connecticut, Connecticut College, Wheaton College (MA), and Southern Methodist University. In 1988 she returned to Italy and continued teaching for the University of Maryland; since 1990 she has been teaching at the Loyola University Chicago Rome Center. Dr. Sotis has published a book on the American poet Walt Whitman, and articles and reviews in literary and academic journals in the USA, Italy, and Canada on American, Italian, and German speaking writers (on prose, poetry, and theater). Her recent publications are a comparative stylistic analysis of D'Arrigo's Horcynus Orca and Melville's Moby Dick, the synestetical world of Bonaviri Giuseppe and, for cultural studies, Giuseppe Cassieri. She is presently involved in studies and research on Dante and the visual arts, and folktales as expressions of Italian regions. Todd Waller, M.Ed. is Associate Dean of Students at Loyola University Chicago's Rome Center Campus. Mr. Waller is currently a doctoral candidate in International Education at the University of London, and he has undertaken additional doctoral research in human communications studies at the University of Denver. Mr. Waller possesses a Master's degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to instructing service learning courses and coordinating international service projects at a number of universities (University of Pennsylvania, The Johns Hopkins University, University of Denver, Regis University and Fordham University), Mr. Waller has directed two documentary films in Bosnia Herzegovina. Anne Wingenter earned a Ph.D. in history from Loyola University Chicago, an M.A. in history from Indiana University-Bloomington, and a B.S. in international studies from Spring Hill College. Her dissertation, "Le Veterane del Dolore: Mothers and Widows of the 'Fallen' in Fascist Italy," examines how and why Fascist ideologues constructed the war mother as a central figure in the symbolic universe of the "new Italy." It is both an institutional history of the National Association of Mothers and Widows of the Fallen in War, whose actual bodies were utilized in this construction, and an attempt to interrogate how symbols are historically created and manipulated. Leila Zammar, Laurea , graduated from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, with a dissertation on Peter Brook and Opera. She passed the Italian State Qualification in English. She teaches English in Italian high schools. She has studied music theory, history of music, and basic elements of composition, and has passed the examination in piano at the Conservatorio di Musica. She has been teaching Italian at Loyola since August of 1995, after having taught Italian for years in several private schools for foreigners. |
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