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Dr Barbara Faedda

Dr Barbara Faedda

Qualifications: 

The Permanent Mission of EPLO to the UN is headed by Permanent Representative and Ambassador Barbara Faedda.

On 21 May 2019, Ambassador Barbara Faedda, Ph.D. presented her credentials to the Secretary-General of the U.N., António Guterres. Dr. Faedda is also the Executive Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University in NYC. She received her Ph.D. in Legal Anthropology and Social Science from the Università degli Studi Orsola Benincasa, Naples, after studying at Sapienza Università di Roma, in Paris at the Summer Institute of International & Comparative Law (co-sponsored by Cornell Law School and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), and at Boston University (as a visiting scholar).

Work History: 

Dr. Faedda is Adjunct Professor in Columbia's Department of Italian, where she teaches courses on contemporary Italy. In 2016 she conceived the International Observatory for Cultural Heritage (IOCH), dedicated to all issues relating to the survival, protection, and conservation of cultural heritage. In February 2020, she was named the 2020 Illustrious Alumnus/Alumna of Sapienza Università di Roma, the distinguished institution that is more than 700 years old.

In 2022 the President of the Italian Republic named Barbara Faedda a "Commendatore della Repubblica" (Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic).

She is the author of the books Elite. Cultura italiana e statunitense tra Settecento e Novecento (Ronzani Editore, 2020), From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana: A Brief History of Italian Studies at Columbia (Columbia University Press, 2017), and I mille volti della moda; she is also a co-author of the book Luoghi di frontiera. Antropologia delle mediazioni, and a contributor to various books and manuscripts. Her recent publications include: A Lost Mediterranean Culture. The Giant Statues of Sardinia's Mont'e Prama, coeditor (Columbia University Press, 2023); Rule of Law: Cases, Strategies, and Interpretations, editor (Ronzani/The Italian Academy, 2021); Present and Future Memory. Holocaust Studies at the Italian Academy (2008-2016), editor, (Italian Academy Publications, Columbia University, 2016); "An Italian Perspective on the U.S.-Italy Relationship", in Italy in the White House: A Conversation on Historical Perspectives, David M. Rubenstein National Center for White House History (The White House Historical Association, 2016); "Neurolaw: come le neuroscienze potrebbero cambiare l'antropologia giuridica," in Antropologia giuridica. Etnografie e temi attuali, A. De Lauri ed. (Mondadori Universita', 2013); "Emozioni e paure. Come la politica utilizza l'Altro," in Politica ed emozioni nella storia d'Italia dal 1848 ad oggi, P. Morris, F. Ricatti, M. Seymour, eds. (Viella, 2012); "L'immigration law statunitense," with L. Melchionna, in Regioni, Immigrazione e Diritti Sociali, E. Rossi, F. Biondi Dal Monte, M. Vrenna, eds., Scuola Superiore S. Anna of Pisa (Il Mulino, 2012); and "We are not racists, but we do not want immigrants," in Integration, Globalization and Racialization: Theories and Perspectives on Immigration, J. Capetillo, G. Jacobs, P. Kretsedemas, eds. (Routledge, 2012).