ANNA LISA TOTA (MA in Methodology and Social Research at the University of Essex, UK; PhD in Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy) is Full Professor in Sociology of Communication and Culture at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome III in Rome (Italy). She is also Gast Professor at the Universitaet St. Gallen (Hochschule fuer Wirtschafts, Rechts und Sozialwissenschaften) in Switzerland. Since 2000 she has served as Expert Evaluator for the European Commission in Brussels.
Her main research interests are related to memory studies, with a special focus to the inscription in the public discourse of very controversial events (such as terrorist attacks), to the relation of artistic codes and public memory.
Recently Published - Ethnographying public memory: the commemorative genre for the victims of terrorism in Italy
in SAGE Qualitative Research Methods, Vol. 4 (2), Paul Atkinson, Sara Delmont, eds., 2010 - Memories of Terrorism: The Public Inscription of a Dramatic Past
in The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture, M. Jacobs, N. Hanharan (eds.), Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 - Terrorism and Collective Memories: Comparing Bologna, Naples and Madrid March 11
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. 46 (1-2): 55-78, 2005 - Sociologie dell’arte: Dal museo tradizionale all’arte multimediale
Carocci, 2002 - La città ferita. Memoria e comunicazione pubblica della strage di Bologna, 2 agosto 1980
Il Mulino/Ricerca, 2003
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