Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute

LEONARDO SCHIOCCHET
CURRICULUM VITAE, April 2016
Place of Birth: Curitiba/Paraná – Brazil
Citizenship: Italian & Brazilian
Address:
Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Social Anthropology
Apostelgasse, 23 - Vienna – 1030 - 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).
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Master of Arts (M.A.) in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Universidade de Brasília
(UNB).
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Social Sciences at Universidade Federal do Paraná
(UFPR).
Boston/Massachusetts, USA. 2005-2011
Dissertation title: Refugee Lives: Ritual and Belonging in Two Palestinian Refugee Camps in
Lebanon
Brasília/Distrito Federal, Brazil. 2003-2005
Thesis title: What Man Prohibits on Earth God Brings by the Sea: Knowledge, Conflict, and
Myth in the Village of Barra do Superagüi [O Que o Homem Proíbe na Terra, Deus Traz Pelo
Mar: Conhecimento, Conflito e Mito na Vila da Barra do Superagüi]
Paraná, Brazil. 1999–2003
Thesis title: Hierarchy and Individualism in Batuva: An Ethnography of Exchange Relations
[Hierarquia e Individualismo em Batuva: Uma Etnografia das Relações de Troca]
2. GRANTS AND AWARDS (selection)
a. Lise Meitner Programme (FWF)
Vienna, Austria. Senior Postdoctoral Research Grant. May 2015- May 2017.
b. CAPES (Brazilian Ministry of Education)
Brasília, Brazil. Postoctoral Grant. Jul 2013 – Dez 2014
c. CNPQ
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 – 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)
b. Refugee Outreach & Reseach Network (ROR-N). Vienna, Austria.
Member of the Executive and Publication Commissions. 2015. (active)
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).
h. Al-Irfan Journal. Morocco.
Member of the Advisory Board. 2015 (active).
i. Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME Journal). UK.
Assistant Editor. 2016 (active)
4. PAST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (In the Field of Anthropology)
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.
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e.
f.
g.
h.
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
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. Books
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo (Ed.). 2015. Entre o Velho e Novo Mundo: A Diáspora Palestina
desde o Oriente Médio à América Latina [Between the Old and the New World: The Palestinian
Diaspora from the Middle East to Latin America]. Lisbon: Chiado Editora.
2. Articles published in Academic Journals
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2014. Suspicion and the Economy of Trust among Palestinian
Refugees in Lebanon. 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).
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]. Antropolítica (Dossier Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon)
No 35 (2013), pp.77-99. Rio de Janeiro/Brazil: UFF.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2014. Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Is the Camp a Space of
Exception?. Mashriq & Mahjar. Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2014. Pp. 130-160.
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?. Critique and Humanism (The City as a Stake in Local and Global
Politics). No. 42. 1-2, 2013. Sofia/Bulgaria: HSSF.
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. Critique and
Humanism (The City as a Stake in Local and Global Politics) [language: Bulgarian]. No. 42.
1-2, 2013. Sofia/Bulgaria: HSSF]
Schiocchet, Leonardo. 2011. Far Middle East, Brave New World: The Building of the Middle
East and the Arab Spring. The Perspective of the World Review, Vol.3, No.2. August
2011. Brasilia/Brazil: IPEA.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2011. Palestinian Sumud: Steadfastness, Ritual and Time among
Palestinian Refugees. Birzeit Working Paper Series. Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of
International Studies, Birzeit University, Ramallah,
Palestine. http://home.birzeit.edu/ialiis/userfiles/WPS2011-51Leonardo.pdf
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]. Tempo do Mundo, Vol.3, No.2 – August
2011. Brasilia/Brazil: IPEA.
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
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto & MARTINS, Homero Moro. 2005. Interview with Alcida
Rita Ramos. Campos. Curitiba, Brazil, v. 06, 2005.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto. 2004. Lévi-Strauss vs. Freud? – Um ensaio [Lévi-Strauss vs.
Freud?An Essay]. Revista Vernáculo. Curitiba, Brazil, v. 6/7, 2004.
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
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2015. Palestinian Steadfastness as a Mission, in Building Noah’s
Ark (eds) A. Horstmann and J-H. Jung. London: Palgrave McMillan.
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.
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).
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)
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)
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.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto. 2010. Deus Traz Pelo Mar: conhecimento e conflito sócioambiental 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
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.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo Augusto; MARTINS, Alice Fátima; CORREIA, Cloude de Souza.
Revista Pós – Revista Brasiliense de Ciências Sociais. 2003. Brasília, Brazil: UNB, 2003.
5. Reviews
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2016. Review of Refugees of the Revolution, by Diana Allan. 2014.
American Anthropologist, Vol. 118, no.1, 177-78.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2015. Review of Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity:
Adoption and Belonging in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, by Ben-Zion, Sigalit. 2014. Social
Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale. Vol. 23 No. IV, 2015.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2015. Review of Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian communities in the
world. Theoretical Frameworks and empirical studies, by Batrouney, Trevor, Tobias Boos, Anton
Escher and Paul Tabar (eds.). Die Erde Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin. Vol. 146,
No 2-3. (pp. 199-200).
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2015. Review of The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the
Contradictions
of
Secularism,
by
Fernando,
Mayanthi
L.
2014.
Social
Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale. Vol. 23 No. III, 2015.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. 2011. Review of A Morada de Ser: Muçulmanos na Europa e Políticas
de Identidade, by Nina Clara Tiesler in Social Sciences and Missions, Vol. 25. Leiden: Brill.
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.
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.
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.
1. Submitted, in Preparation, Accepted for Publication & in Press
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (In press, 2015). Review of Yusif Sayigh: Arab Nationalist, Palestinian
Patriot, by Rosemary Sayigh. 2015. Antropolitica, No. 38, Vol. II. 2015.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (Accepted for publication. Forthcoming, 2015). Uma Nação Sem
Estado: A Palestina dos Palestinos [A Stateless Nation: The Palestine of the
Palestinians] in LIMONCIC, Flávio & MARTINHO, Francisco. Nações [Nations] (Language:
Portuguese).
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. In Press. “On The Brink of a State of Exception? – Austria, Europe
and the Refugee Crisis”. In Critique & Humanism.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. In Press. “On The Brink of a State of Exception? – Austria, Europe
and the Refugee Crisis (in Bulgarian)”. In Critique & Humanism.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. Accepted for Publication. The Middle East and its Refugees. In
Facetten von Flucht aus dem Nahen und Mittleren Osten. Vienna.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (Journal article in preparation, 2015). On The Anthropology of the
Middle East and its Palestinian Suffering Subjects.
SCHIOCCHET, Leonardo. (Book manuscript in preparation). The Refuge: Nation & Religion in
a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon.