Biographical Information
I am in my second year of graduate study at UNC. I am from Italy; I grew up in a small industrial town on the North Eastern border of the country, close to Slovenia. I got my college degree in communication studies (curriculum in business communication) at the University of Trieste. Perhaps because I grew up so close to the old Iron Curtain, I developed quite early in college an interest for post communist transformation, which ultimately led me to abandon marketing and embrace geography.
So far, my academic work has concerned the position of Ukraine in the context of the EU enlargement and the restructuring of the retail trade in Post Soviet Moscow. I am also preparing a work on Trieste, analyzing the changing human geography of the city under the light of the post Cold War transformations. These various interests come together in the development of my dissertation. I am focusing on the Russian Federation, analyzing transition in regions which are likely to have future importance. For the purpose of this work, I consider transition as a re-elaboration of norms and networks, which becomes a source of instability and disruption of pre existent equilibria, thus creating momentum of strategic importance. This work is located at the intersection between economic geography, geography of population changes and issues of international security.
Before coming to geography, I pursued my interest in Eastern Europe – Former Soviet Union by working as teaching assistant of Italian at the Moscow State Linguistic University, making an internship in one international initiative operating in Central-Eastern Europe (Central European Initiative) and collaborating with the commercial office of the Italian embassy in Kiev (ICE-Kiev).
Keywords
Post communist transformation, Russia.
Degrees
2000 University of Trieste BA, Business Communication
Publications & Presentations
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