Pierluca Birindelli

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ABOUT PIERLUCA BIRINDELLI

Pierluca Birindelli PhD, Sociologist and Cultural Anthropologist, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Alumnus (University of Helsinki). He teaches at International Studies Institute, Gonzaga University and New Haven University.Birindelli earned his PhD in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Florence and has been a PhD Visiting Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and at Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Université de Paris). In 2010, he was awarded the qualification of Researcher in Social Sciences (Sociology and Cultural Anthropology) by CNR (Italian National Research Council) and in 2013 became Docent in Sociology at the University of Helsinki. In 2014 he received a Faculty Development Grant by Gonzaga University in Florence to write the monograph \"The Passage from Youth to Adulthood\". In 2016 he was awarded with the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA) under the European Commission funding program “HORIZON 2020 Excellent Science”. He was nominated (2017) MSCA fellow of the week and awarded with an ulterior grant by the Department of Social Research (University of Helsinki) to carry out the research project “International Student’s Self-Identity Abroad”. In 2022 he received a double faculty development grant (International Studies Institute, Gonzaga University in Florence) to write the book \"Narrative Identity: A Personal Roadmap\".Birindelli taught in several academic institutions: University of Florence, Georgetown University, Kent State University, International Research Master in Social Sciences (University of Helsinki).He is currently EU Expert in Social Sciences and Humanities (funding program “HORIZON Europe 20••••27”). Within the European Sociological Association he is an active member of the research networks “Global, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Sociology” (board).Birindelli has authored a number of articles addressing the themes of individual and collective identity, four books on youth and generations, and two monographs about narrative identity in late Modernity.Birindelli adopts a multidisciplinary approach: Sociology; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Psychology, Communication, Narrative Studies, Cultural Studies.His research interests include: Individual and Collective Identities; Cultural Globalization and Cosmopolitanism; Education and Human Development in Comparative Perspective; Media, Self and Society. His current research project is a qualitative and comparative study: “The Cultural Experience of International Students: Narratives from North and South Europe”.