LEONARDO SCHIOCCHET
CURRICULUM VITAE, April 2015
Place of Birth: Curitiba/Paraná – Brazil
Citizenship: Italian & Brazilian
Address:
Institute for Social Anthropology/Austrian Academy of Sciences. Apostelgasse,
23 - A-1030 Vienna/AUSTRIA
Phone:
+ 43 6766433303
E-mail:
[email protected] , [email protected]
Main Areas of Research
a. Palestine Anthropology; b. Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies; c. Nationalism, Ethnicity & Religion;
d. Rituals & Belonging Processes; e. Refugee Studies
1. ACADEMIC TITLES
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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Anthropology at Boston University (BU).
Boston/Massachusetts, USA. 2005-2011
Dissertation title: Refugee Lives: Ritual and Belonging in Two Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Universidade de Brasília
(UNB).
Brasília/Distrito Federal, Brazil. 2003-2005
Thesis title: O Que o Homem Proíbe na Terra, Deus Traz Pelo Mar: Conhecimento, Conflito e
Mito na Vila da Barra do Superagüi
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Social Sciences at Universidade Federal do Paraná
(UFPR).
Paraná, Brazil. 1999–2003
Thesis title: Hierarquia e Individualismo em Batuva: Uma Etnografia das Relações de
Troca
2. GRANTS AND AWARDS (last 5 years only)
a. Lise Meitner Programme (FWF)
Vienna, Austria. Senior Postdoctoral Research Grant. May 2015- May 2017.
b. CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brazilian
Ministry of Education)
Brasília, Brazil. Postoctoral Grant. Jul 2013 – Dez 2014
c. CNPQ – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Brasília, Brazil. Postdoctoral Grant. Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
d. IWM – Institut für die Wiessenshaften vom Menschen (Institute for Human
Sciences)
Vienna, Austria. Junior Visiting Fellowship. Jan 2010 – Jun 2010
e. Cora du Bois Charitable Trust – Harvard University
Cambridge/Massachusetts, USA. Writing Fellowship. Aug 2009 – Jan 2010
f. Fulbright/CAPES
USA/Brazil. Full Ph.D. scholarship (including field research). Aug 2005 – Jul 2009
2. CURRENT POSITION
a. Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA)
Researcher (Wissenschatficher Mitarbeiter). May 2015-
3. ACTIVE INSTITUTIONAL AFILIATIONS
a. The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
Full Member. 2014. (active)
a. Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna, Austria.
Guest Researcher. Jul 2013 – Dec 2014.
b. CAPES/Brazil (Brazilian Ministry of Education)
Postdoctoral fellow. Jul 2013 – Dec 2014.
c. Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Full member. 2012. (active).
d. Critique and Humanism Journal. Sofia, Bulgaria.
Member of the International Review Board. 2011. (active).
e. RIMAAL (Red de Investigación Interdisciplinaria sobre el Mundo Arabe y América
Latina)
Researcher, 2012 (active)
f. Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA). Brazil.
Full Member. 2011 (active).
g. Middle Eastern Studies Centre (NEOM) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
(UFF). Brazil.
Research Associate. 2010 (active).
4. PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Most Important Only)
a. Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Social Anthropology. Austria.
Guest Researcher. Jan 2014 – Dec 2013.
b. Islamic Cultures and Societies Research Unit at Aarhus University. Denmark.
Guest Researcher. Jul 2013 – Dec 2013.
c. Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Professor of graduate-only course titled “Religion and Nationalism: The Middle
Eastern Case” for the Department of Anthropology. Aug 2012 – Dec 2012
Professor of graduate-only course titled “Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Middle
Eastern Case” for the Department of Anthropology. Aug 2011 – Dec 2011
Postdoctoral Fellow. 2010-2012
d. Boston University (BU). Boston/MA, USA.
- Teaching Assistant to Dr. Robert Levine’s course “Psychological Anthropology”.
Spring Term 2009.
Teaching Assistant to Dr. Frank Korom’s course “Anthropological Study of Religion.
Spring Term 2009.
- Taught course titled “Anthropology of Muslim Cultures and Politics” for the
e.
f.
g.
h.
Anthropology Department. Fall Term 2008
- Taught course titled “Power and Society in the Middle East” for the Anthropology
Department. Summer Term 2007
- Translated from Portuguese to English 18th and 19th Century manuscripts from
Angola for the African American Study Center. 2006
Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC), Notre Dame University. Louaize,
Lebanon.
- Research Associate. 2008
Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations at Boston University.
Boston/MA, USA. Researcher. 2006-2011.
Social Science and Religion Network (SSRN) at Boston University. Boston/MA, USA.
Researcher. 2006-2011.
The American University of Beirut (AUB), Department of Social and Behavioral
Sciences.
- Beirut, Lebanon. Research Associate – Conducted preliminary fieldwork in Lebanon
for PhD program at BU. Jun - Aug 2006
LANGUAGES
Portuguese
English
Spanish
French
Arabic
German
Understanding
Native
Excellent
Excellent
Very Good
[colloquial
Palestinian/Lebanese]
Very Good
Basic
Speaking
Native
Excellent
Excellent
Good
[colloquial
Palestinian/Lebanese]
Very Good
Basic
Reading
Writing
Native
Native
Excellent
Excellent
Excellent
Good
Excellent
Regular
[modern standard] [modern standard]
Regular
Regular
Basic
Basic
6. MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
1. In Preparation, Accepted for Publication & In Press
a. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (in press, Winter 2104). Palestinian Steadfastness as a
Mission, in Building Noah’s Arc (eds) A. Horstmann and J-H. Jung. London: Palgrave
McMillan.
b. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo (Ed.). (in press, Spring 2015). Entre o Velho e Novo Mundo:
O Exílio Palestino desde o Oriente Médio à América Latina [Between the Old and the New
World: Palestinian Exile from the Middle East to Latin America]. Lisbon: Chiado Editora.
c. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (Accepted for publication. Forthcoming, Summer 2015). On The
Anthropology of the Middle East and its Palestinian Suffering Subjects. Journal of
the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME), Vol.
3 no. 1 (Summer, 2015).
d. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (Accepted for publication. Forthcoming, Summer 2015). Uma
Nação Sem Estado: A Palestina dos Palestinos [A Stateless Nation: The Palestine of the
Palestinians] in LIMONCIC, Flávio & MARTINHO, Francisco. Nações [Nations].
e. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (Accepted for publication. Forthcoming, Summer 2015).
(Review) FERNANDO, Mayanthi L. 2014. The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the
Contradictions of Secularism. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale. Vol. 23 No. II,
2015.
f. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (Manuscript complete, to be submitted in May, 2015). “The
Least of ‘The Undesirables’: 117 Palestinian Refugees in Brazil between Humanitarianism and
Nationalism”. In The Journal of Palestine Studies.
g. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (In preparation). The Refuge: Nation & Religion in a
Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon.
2. Articles published in Academic Journals
a. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2014. “Suspicion and the Economy of Trust among Palestinian
Refugees in Lebanon”. In Cambridge Anthropology, volume 32, issue no. 2, 2014 (Endres,
Kirsten W. and Six-Hohenbalken, Maria (Eds.) Risks, Ruptures and Uncertainties: Dealing
with Crisis in Asia's Emerging Economies).
b. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2014. Palestinidade: Resistência, Tempo e Ritual no Campo
de Refugiados Palestinos Al-Jalil, Líbano [Palestinianness: Resistance, Tempo and Ritual in
al-Jalil Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon] in Antropolítica (Dossier Palestinian Refugees
in Lebanon) No 35 (2013), pp.77-99. Rio de Janeiro/Brazil: UFF.
c. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2014. “Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Is the Camp a Space
of Exception?” In Mashriq & Mahjar. Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2014. Pp.
130-160.
d. Леонардо Счиочет. 2014. БЕЖАНСКИЯТ ЛАГЕР И ГРАДЪТ: ДАЛИ ЛАГЕРЪТ
ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛНО Е ИЗВЪН-РЕДНО ПРОСТРАНСТВО? In Критика и хуманизъм, кн.
42, бр. 1-2/2013 [SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2014. The Refuge and the City: is the Camp
Indeed a Space of Exception? in Critique and Humanism (The City as a Stake in Local and
Global Politics). No. 42. 1-2, 2013. Sofia/Bulgaria: HSSF.
e. Леонардо Счиочет. 2014. ПАЛЕСТИНСКИТЕ БЕЖАНСКИ ЛАГЕРИ В ЛИВАН –
ПРЕНАРЕЖДАНЕ НА СИМВОЛНОТО ПРОСТРАНСТВО (ФОТОНАРАТИВ)
In Критика и хуманизъм, кн. 42, бр. 1-2/2013 [SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (January,
2014). Photo Narrative: Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon – Symbolic Space
Reordered in Critique and Humanism (The City as a Stake in Local and Global
Politics) [language: Bulgarian]. No. 42. 1-2, 2013. Sofia/Bulgaria: HSSF]
f. Schiocchet, Leonardo. 2011. Far Middle East, Brave New World: The Building of the
Middle East and the Arab Spring in The Perspective of the World Review, Vol.3, No.2.
August 2011. Brasilia/Brazil: IPEA.
g. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2011. Palestinian Sumud: Steadfastness, Ritual and Time
among Palestinian Refugees. in Birzeit Working Paper Series . Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
Institute
of
International
Studies,
Birzeit
University,
Ramallah,
Palestine. http://home.birzeit.edu/ialiis/userfiles/WPS2011-51Leonardo.pdf
h. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2011. Extremo Oriente Médio, Admirável Mundo Novo: A
Construção Do Oriente Médio E A Primavera Árabe [Extreme Middle East, Brave New World:
The Construction of the Middle East and the Arab Spring] in Tempo do Mundo, Vol.3, No.2 –
August 2011. Brasilia/Brazil: IPEA.
i. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto. 2010. Refugee Lives: Ritual and Belonging in Two
Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon. in Lee, Lois and Tekelieglu, Ahmet (ed.) Modernities
Revisited: Boundaries and Representations. IWM, Vienna, Austria. 2010, pp. 41-51.
http://www.iwm.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=125
j. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto & MARTINS, Homero Moro. 2005. Interview with
Alcida Rita Ramos. Campos. Curitiba, Brazil, v. 06, 2005.
k. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto. 2004. Lévi-Strauss vs. Freud? – Um ensaio [LéviStrauss vs. Freud?An Essay]. Revista Vernáculo. Curitiba, Brazil, v. 6/7, 2004.
l. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto. 2001. Esboço Sobre o Lugar das Questões de Gênero
na Ciência [An Outline on the Place of Gender in Science]. Estudos de Gênero. Curitiba,
Brazil, v. 01, 2001.
3. Chapters in Books
a. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2013. Palestinian Sumud: Steadfastness, Ritual and Time
among Palestinian Refugees. in Asem Khalil (ed.). Palestinian Refugees: Different
Generations but One Identity. Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies,
Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine.
b. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2012. Lebanon in Stanton, Andrea (Editor), Ramsamy (Editor),
Seybolt (Editor), Elliot, Carolyn (Editor). Encyclopedia of Cultural Sociology. Volume 1:
Middle East. Encyclopedia Entry. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE (USA).
c. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2012. Palestine in Stanton, Andrea (Editor), Ramsamy
(Editor), Seybolt (Editor), Elliot, Carolyn (Editor). Encyclopedia of Cultural Sociology.
Volume 1: Middle East. Encyclopedia Entry. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. (USA)
d. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2012. Popular culture in the Middle East, 1920- in Stanton,
Andrea (Editor), Ramsamy (Editor), Seybolt (Editor), Elliot, Carolyn (Editor). Encyclopedia
of Cultural Sociology. Volume 1: Middle East. Encyclopedia Entry. Thousand Oaks, CA:
SAGE. (USA)
e. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2012. Identidades Sociais No Líbano: Sectarismo, Etnicidade
e Outras Variáveis [Social Identities in Lebanon: Sectarianism, Ethnicity and Other
Variables]. in Variações Interétnicas: etnicidade, conflito e transformações (eds. Faleiros,
Rodrigo & Baines, Stephen). Brasília, Brazil: GERI (Grupo de Estudos de Relações
Interétnicas) e editora da UnB with CAPES, IEB, CEPPAC and FUNAI.
f. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto. 2010. Deus Traz Pelo Mar: conhecimento e conflito
sócio-ambiental no espaço caiçara da pesca marítima do sul do Brasil [God Brings through
the Sea: Knowledge, Conflict, and Myth in the Caiçara Space of the Maritime Fishing in the
South of Brazil] in LITTLE, Paul Elliot (ed.). Conhecimentos Tradicionais Para o Século
XXI: Etnografias da Intercientificidade. Brasília, Brazil: Editora Annablume.
4. Journals Edited
a. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto; CORREIA, Cloude de Souza; CIARALLO, Gilson; et
all. Revista Pós – Revista Brasiliense de Ciências Sociais. Ano VIII, 2004. Brasília, Brazil:
UNB, 2004.
b. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto; MARTINS, Alice Fátima; CORREIA, Cloude de
Souza. Revista Pós – Revista Brasiliense de Ciências Sociais. 2003. Brasília, Brazil: UNB,
2003.
5. Reviews
a. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2011. (Review) A Morada de Ser: Muçulmanos na Europa e
Políticas de Identidade, by Nina Clara Tiesler in Social Sciences and Missions, Vol. 25.
Leiden: Brill.
b. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2010. (Review) The Making of a Human Bomb, by Naser
Abufarha. in Interventions: International Journal of Post-colonial Studies 12.2. London:
Routledge.
c. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2010. (Review) ZEIS, Eva-Maria. 2010. I Have a Very Good
Trust in My God: La construction de la religiosité des jeunes gens Sunnites à Beyrouth.
in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, No. 107. Münster, Germany. 2012.
d. SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto. 2004. (Review) Tribes and Power: Nationalism and
Ethnicity in The Middle East (Jabar, Faleh & Dawod, Hosham; eds.), Saqi Books; Julho
2003. Campos. Curitiba, Brazil, v. 05, 2004.