Italy

Giorgio Scalici, Italy

Giorgio Scalici (Palermo 1986) is a researcher at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Where, in 2013, he obtained the Master’s Degree in Ethnomusicology, before obtaining a PhD in Religious Studies from Durham University, UK. 

He is currently leading research on religious freedom, funerals and minorities.

His fields of research include death studies, indigenous culture, religious studies, ethnomusicology and the anthropology of emotions.

Personal website: giorgioscalici.eu
Project website: sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/fred

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Research interests: death, religion, shamanism, indigenous culture, videogames, comic book, mafia.

Research fellow for the FRED project

Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, Performing Arts – Faculty of Letters and Philosophy

Sapienza University of Rome

Member of the Advisory Board of the Durham University Centre for Death and Life Studies

Membership Secretary of the Association for the Study of Death and Society(ASDS) 

Member of the Scientific Committee of the EndLife NoteBook (ENB) Series – Padova University Press