Marta Villa

Ph D. in Contemporary History at the University of Italian Switzerland - Architecture Academy. Title of dissertation: ‘The development of a valley floor in the Eastern Alps (18th-20th century). Landscape, ownership systems and land use in the Piana Rotaliana (Trento)’. Director PhD: prof Luigi Lorenzetti. Opponents: prof. Andrea Bonoldi (University of Trento); prof. Manuel Vaquero Pineiro (University of Perugia), prof. Daniela Mondì (University of Italian Switzerland). 

Ph D. (XXIII course) in Contemporary Anthropology: ethnography of cultural divergences and convergences at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Title of dissertation: ‘Fertility rites, identity constructions and recognition strategies in Südtirol / Alto Adige. The Stilfs case study in Vinschgau’ Director PhD: prof Ugo Fabietti. Supervisor prof. Ivan Bargna, co-supervisor: prof. Silvia Vignato; opponents: prof. Simonetta Grilli (University of Siena) and prof. Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz (University of Reggio Emilia) 

Master’s Degree in Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences "summa cum laude" at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Title of dissertation ‘Revenge: culture and politics of a violent practice’ Supervisor prof. Ugo Fabietti, co-supervisor dott.ssa Silvia Barberani.

Four-year (Master’s) Degree (old system) in Moral Philosophy (110/110) at the University of Milan. Title of the dissertazione: ‘Dialectic of anti-Semitism’ Supervisor: Prof. Luciano Frasconi, co-supervisor prof. Carlo Pettazzi. 

Research Fellow (from 1/10/2022 to 30/09/2024) in Cultural Anthropology (M-DEA), 24 months, Scientific Project ‘Milk and the territory of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in an anthropological perspective: symbols, identity, landscape and opportunities for valorisation’, at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, supervisor Prof. Mario Diani.

Research Fellow (from 15/09/2021 to 14/09/2022) in Cultural Anthropology (M-DEA), 12 months, European Project ECOVINEGOALS, at Department of Sociology and Social Research University of Trento, supervisor prof. Mario Diani

Contract lecturer (from 2018 to 2022) of the Cultural Anthropology Course (36 hours) in the PFPTI Pathway at the University of Trento.

Contract lecturer (from 2018 to present) of the Medical Cultural Anthropology Course (10 hours) at the Degree in Psychiatric Rehabilitation at the University of Verona - Faculty of Medicine.

Contract lecturer (from 2023 to 2024) (20 hours 6 CFU) for the course in Alpine Cultural Anthropology Scientific Disciplinary Sector M-DEA/01 - University of Bolzano/Bozen Faculty of Primary Education.

Research assistant (from 1/10/2016 to 30/06/2020) at the Laboratory of Alpine History, Academy of Architecture, University of Italian Switzerland research grant (45 months) Swiss National Fund historical-anthropological research project ‘Propriété, ressources et construction territoriale. Les fonds de vallée dans l'éspace alpin, 1700-2000’. Research in the territory of the Province of Trento: Piana Rotaliana.

Associate researcher (from 12/02/2017 to 31/12/2018) in Cultural Anthropology (M-Dea) and Contemporary History of the working group ‘Ricercatori e Ricercatori associati’ of the Laboratory of Alpine History - Academy of Architecture University of Lugano.

Lecturer (In the academic year 2024/2025) (48 hrs. 12 CFU) for the course of Research Laboratory Technology and Organisation within the Master's Degree Course in Organisation, Society and Technology University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Lecturer (In academic year 2023/2024) (48 hrs. 12 CFU) for the course Research Laboratory Technology and Organisation within the Master's Degree Course in Organisation, Society and Technology University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Lecturer speaker (In academic year 2023/2024) (14 hours 2 CFU) for the credit seminar (lecturer proposing Mario Diani) Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Ecosystem Terre Alte. Territories of Life, Collective Domains, Local Products in the Alpine Eco-Cultural System. A transdisciplinary anthropological look’.

Lecturer (In the academic year 2023/2024) (4 hrs.) for the Advanced Training Course III edition a.y. 2023/24 Tourism and resilient territories: comparing projects and experiences organised by the University of Eastern Piedmont and Unione Montana delle Valli dell'Ossola I.5 Claim Contamination Lab Aree Interne Montane and financed by Regione Piemonte with a presentation on cultural anthropology (theoretical and workshop-laboratory).

Lecturer (24 hrs. 12 CFU) (y. y. 2022/23) for the course of Research Laboratory Technology and Organisation within the Master's Degree Course in Organisation, Society and Technology at the University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2022/23) for the 14-hour 2 CFU credit seminar (proposing lecturer Mario Diani) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Highlands, climate crisis and sustainability. Enhancing the environment and local products with an ecological anthropological view’.

Lecturer (48 hrs. 12 CFU) (y. y. 2021/22) for the course Qualitative Methods and Research Laboratory within the Master's Degree Course in Management of Organisations and Territory at the University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2021/22) for the 14-hour 2 CFU credit seminar (proposing lecturer Mario Diani) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘The Alpine Agricultural Landscape in Transformation. Research and socio-anthropological readings’.

Lecturer (8 hours) for the Advanced Training Course I edition a.y. 2021/22 Green Economy, Sustainability and Circular Economy organised by the University of Eastern Piedmont and Unione Montana delle Valli dell'Ossola I.5 Claim Contamination Lab Aree Interne Montane and financed by Regione Piemonte with two lectures on cultural anthropology (theoretical and workshop-laboratory).

Lecturer (48 hrs. 12 CFU) (y. y. 2020/21) for the course Qualitative Methods and Research Workshop within the Master's Degree Course in Management of Organisations and Territory at the University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Lecturer (24 +24 hours 12 CFU) (y. y. 2020/21) for the Qualitative Methods Lab course (in English) within the Master's Degree Course in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2020/21) for the 14-hour 2 CFU credit seminar (proposing lecturer Mario Diani) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Agricultural Landscape and Development Dynamics of the Valley Floor. A historical-anthropological look at the material and immaterial heritage’.

Lecturer tutor (24 hours 12 CFU) (y. y. 2020/21) for the course of Cultural Anthropology within the Three-year Degree Course in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Lecturer speaker (3 hours) (y. y. 2020/21) for the Training Course ‘The Words of SCUP’ organised by the Autonomous Province of Trento for members of the voluntary civil service.

Lecturer speaker (6 hrs.) (y. y. 2020/21) for the Teachers' Refresher Course ’Changing the look, finding a look. L'antropologia culturale nel mondo della scuola’ organised by Istituti Tecnici Professionali - Provincia Autonoma di Trento.

Guest Lecture (a. a. 2020/21) of 2 academic hours for the course in Cultural Anthropology (lecturer Ester Gallo) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘The Why of Anthropological Research in the Alps’ 3 November 2020.

Tutor lecturer (24 hours 12 CFU) (a. y. 2019/20) for the course on Qualitative Methods and Research Laboratories within the Master's Degree Course in Management of Organisations and Territory at the University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Lecturer speaker (a. a. 2019/20) for the 14-hour 3 CFU credit seminar (proposing lecturer Mario Diani) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Taste of territory: landscapes, foods, movements, culture of biodiversity. A historical-anthropological approach'.

Guest Lecture (a. a. 2018/19) of 2 academic hours for the Cultural Anthropology course (lecturer Ester Gallo) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘The why of anthropological research in the Alps’ 31 October 2019.

Lecturer speaker (a. a. 2018/19) for the Update Course for Intercultural Facilitators (4 hours) Modules: Elements of Sociology and Cultural Anthropology and Intercultural Communication at UISP Bolzano.

Lecturer trainer (24 hours 12 CFU) (a. y. 2018/19) for the course Qualitative Methods and Research Laboratories within the Master's Degree Course in Management of Organisations and Territory at the University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Lecturer speaker (a. a. 2018/19) for the 14-hour 3 CFU credit seminar (proposing lecturer Albertina Pretto) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Paesaggio da gustare: uomini, territorio, cultura di un patrimonio immateriale’.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2018/19) for the 8 hours 1 CFU credit seminar of the course Qualitative Methods and Research Laboratory (proposing lecturer Albertina Pretto) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Observing, Photographing, Understanding. Visual techniques in socio-anthropological research’.

Teaching Assistant Tutor (y. y. 2017/18) (24 hours 12 CFU) for the course on Qualitative Methods and Research Laboratories within the Master's Degree Course in Management of Organisations and Territory at the University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Annual lecturer (a. a. 2017/18) for the Project Work Laboratory at the ENAIP Institute of Tione, course V year Enogastronomy and High Professional Training regarding cultural and food anthropology with an in-depth study of local/global and multicultural dynamics related to food, its production and its cultural symbolism.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2017/18) for the 14 hours 3 CFU credit seminar of the Contemporary History course (proposing lecturer Casimira Grandi) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Food landscape: people, culture, territory and intangible heritage’.

Guest Lecture (a. y. 2017/18) of 2 academic hours for the Cultural Anthropology course (lecturer Ester Gallo) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘The Alps and cultural anthropology: history and research fields’.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2017/18) for the 8 hours 1 CFU credit seminar of the Qualitative Methods and Research Laboratory course (lecturer Albertina Pretto) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Immortalising research. The visual investigation between anthropology and sociology’.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2017/18) for the training course ‘Saperi &Sapori’ for primary, secondary and second grade school teachers at the University of Trento - Marie Curie Institute of Pergine (TN) with a 3 academic hours speech entitled ‘Cultural anthropology: we meet cultures through taste’.

Lecturer speaker (a. a. 2017/18) for the Update Course for Intercultural Facilitators (2 hours) Module: Elements of Sociology and Cultural Anthropology and at UISP Trento.

Lecturer speaker (a. a. 2016/17) for the 12-hour 2 CFU credit seminar of the Contemporary History course (proposing lecturer Casimira Grandi) at Faculty of Cognitive Sciences ‘The flavour of the territory: food between tradition and innovation on the roads of knowledge. Anthropology of food and valorisation of the landscape for intangible heritage’.

Lecturer speaker (a. a. 2015/16) for the primary, secondary and second grade teacher training courses at the Faculty of Cognitive Science - University of Trento with a 16 academic hours talk entitled "Tell me what you eat... Territory, tradition and innovation. For a new anthropological approach to food culture’.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2015/16) for the 12-hour 2CFU credit seminar of the Progressed Cultural Anthropology course (proposing lecturer Marco Bassi) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Food, Belongings, Memory: when flavour becomes knowledge. Anthropology of food and territorial valorisation’.

Lecturer (a. a. 2014/15) for the primary, secondary and second grade teacher training courses at the Faculty of Cognitive Science - University of Trento with a 16 academic hour lecture entitled "Flavour is knowledge: food. Identity and territory. A reasoned workshop on the anthropology of food’.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2014/15) for the 6-hour 1CFU credit seminar of the Advanced Cultural Anthropology course (proposing lecturer Marco Bassi) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Life Stories and Privileged Informants in Anthropology’ with a paper entitled ‘The case of Marcel Griaule with particular reference to the text God of Water, constructed in collaboration with the elderly Dogon Ogotemmeli’.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2014/15) for the 12-hour 2 CFU credit seminar of the Advanced Cultural Anthropology course (proposing lecturer Marco Bassi) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Il crudo e il cotto. Anthropology of food and the enhancement of the territory’.

Lecturer (academic year 2013/14) for primary and secondary school teacher training courses at the Faculty of Cognitive Sciences - University of Trento with a 12-hour lecture entitled ‘Crudo, cotto e... Laboratorio ragionato di antropologia dell'alimentazione’.

Lecturer speaker (a. y. 2013/14) for the 20-hour 6 CFU credit seminar of the Advanced Cultural Anthropology course (proposing lecturer Marco Bassi) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento ‘Metodologie della ricerca antropologica’. In this seminar, I entirely carried out the lectures on qualitative research methods: the main ethnographic survey instruments, semi-structured interviews, life histories, participant and non-participant observation, visual research and the main methodologies for tabulating, analysing and archiving qualitative materials were presented. The students were followed in the ethnographic exercises valid as an integral part of the examination: in particular, research relating to the field of Territory was followed.

Since 2020. Ordinary member of theAccademia degli Agiati di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, founded in 1750 in Rovereto (TN).

Since 2010. President of the UNESCO Club of Trento, the first club in the Trentino Alto-Adige region to promote the tangible and intangible heritage of the region. Since 2022 elected member of the National Board of Directors of the Italian Federation of UNESCO Centres and Clubs.

From 2010 to 2016. Ordinary member of SIMDEA (Italian Society for Museography and Demoethnoanthropological Heritage).

From 2013 to 2017. Ordinary member of ANUAC (National Association of Cultural Anthropologists).

Since 2013. Ordinary member of the EVAA (Upper Adige Anthropological Association).

From 2014 to 2017. Ordinary member of AISEA (Italian Association for Ethno-Anthropological Sciences).

From 2014 to 2019. Member of the Board of Directors of the Trentino Peace and Human Rights Forum.

Since 2017. Member of the Scientific Committee of the anthropological association ANTROPOLIS Milan.

Since 2016. Ordinary member of SIAA (Italian Society of Applied Anthropology).

Since 2018 Ordinary member of SIAC (Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology).

Since 2018 Ordinary member of EASA (European Association Social Anthropology).

Since 2019. Ordinary member of the Academy of Italian Cuisine. Trento Delegation.

Since 2020. Director of the Trentino Alto Adige/Südtirol Territorial Study Centre of the Italian Academy of Cuisine.

Since 2021. Fellow of the CoACT Research Unit - Collective Action, Change and Transition - Department of Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento.

Member of the Organising Committee of the 4th SIAA Congress (Italian Society of Applied Anthropology) held from 19 to 21 December 2016 at the University of Trento - Department of Sociology and Social Research.

Member of the Organising Committee of the VI SIAA Congress (Italian Society of Applied Anthropology) which was held in Cremona from 13 to 15 December 2018 organised by the University of Milan.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the AREE FRAGILI 2022 Congress ‘Empatia agrosilvopastorale ’held in Rovigo from 18 to 19 March 2022 organised by Dispes, University of Trieste, Aree Fragili APS, Departments of the University of Padua.

Scientific Collaborator (from 1/10/2023 to date) in Cultural Anthropology (M-DEA) of the Content Working Group of the project ‘Neue Hauptausstellung zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte in der Festung Franzenfeste’, Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano, Landesmuseen Südtirol.

Co-Designer and Scientific Collaborator (from 1/10/2024 to date) in Cultural Anthropology (M-DEA) of the European Project ERASMUS+ ‘Transforming Education: Achieving Innovation through Challenge-based-learning TEACH’; Action Type KA220-VET - Cooperation partnerships; 24 months Partner Trentino Social Tank SC (Applicant organisation), University of Trento Department of Sociology and Social Research (Italy), Livepods d. o.o. (Croatia), SC Calatori de mii de stele Srl (Romania), Fedespab (Portugal), Oxford Civezzano SC (Italy), Organizacion No Gubernamental para la Cooperationc Solitaria (Spain)Funding. Total project cost: 400,000.00 euro.

Scientific Collaborator (from 20/03/2020 to 31/10/2021) in Cultural Anthropology (M-DEA) and Historical Researcher of the international research project ‘SATURN grant information’; Funding: EIT-Climate KIC - Call: Climate Innovation Ecosystems 2/2018; Coordinator: Alessandro Gretter. Total project cost: 1,492,303.75 euro Fondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation Centre. Partners: Fondazione Edmund Mach, Birmingham municipality, Climate KIC, Gothenburg municipality, Hub Innovazione Trentino, University of Trento.

Scientific Collaborator (from 29/10/2021 to 30/11/2022) in Cultural Anthropology (M-DEA) and anthropology of food for the project ‘Che spreco’ Fondazione Bruno Kessler Research and innovation for schools Project manager: Claudia Dolci. Speakers: Adolfo Villafiorita and Claudio Ferlan. Funding Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto.

Scientific Collaborator (from 1/10/2019 to 31/12/2019) in Cultural Anthropology (M-DEA) for the training of teachers and participants on the topics of cultural anthropology and the collection of oral memories of the Research and Enhancement Project ‘La via Romea Germanica (VRG): occasione d'incontro tra genti. Schools, territorial authorities and communities promote, in a Euroregional breath, the sustainable tourism of the historical paths’ coordinated by the Argentario Ecomuseum Association, Ist. Tecnico economico “A. Tambosi” Trento, Ist. di Istruzione “A. Degasperi” Borgo valsugana, Comunità Alta Valsugana e Bersntol. Valsugana and Tesino Community. GAL Trentino orientale, Azienda per il turismo Valsugana, Associazione Selva Green, Associazione Ecomuseo della Valsugana, GECT Euregio ‘Tirolo-Alto Adige - Trentino’, Associazione Europea della Via Romea Germanica, Associazione Italiana Via Romea Germanica financed by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto on the basis of a competitive call.

Scientific Collaborator (from 1/10/2015 to 31/08/2016) in Cultural Anthropology (M-DEA) and Food Anthropology of the Project ‘Eco&Bio. Ecoristorazione e Ristorazione Biologica’ for the Autonomous Province of Trento as an expert food anthropologist with fundamental sociological and anthropological research on the material heritage and traditional Alpine agricultural practices.

Scientific Collaborator (from 01/01/2015 to 31/12/2015) Cultural Anthropology (M-DEA) and anthropology of food of the Project The food of the world unites people for the Centre for Research and Training on Interculture in Bolzano and for the Province of Bolzano as an expert cultural anthropologist of foodwith the preparation of quantitative questionnaires and qualitative interviews and publication of a final analysis report in the research report.

Designer, General Scientific Coordinator and Scientific Curator of the Demo-ethno-anthropological sector (from 1/10/2017 to 30/09/2019) for the Pedagogical and Cultural Association Sintesi-Museo Didattico of the Community Memory Research and Enhancement Project ‘Io non c'ero o se ci'ero non dormivo. Trento allo specchio: memoirs, images and narratives of places’ in collaboration with Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto, University of Trento. Department of Sociology and Social Research, the Municipality of Trento, the Trento Science Museum, the Trentino Peace and Human Rights Forum, the Trento History Museum Association, the Trento UNESCO Club. The project saw the realisation of scientific research in various fields (sociological, anthropological, historical), a demo-ethno-anthropological documentary, a publication, and a series of conferences in the area.

Designer, General Scientific Coordinator and Scientific Curator of the demoethnoanthropological sector (from 1/01/2012 to 31/05/2013) of the Community Memory Research and Enhancement Project ‘Memories of Water in the Gresta Valley 2013’ in collaboration with Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Comunità della Vallagarina, Bacino Imbrifero Montano dell'Adige, Municipality of Mori, Municipality of Ronzo-Chienis, Trento Science Museum, Cassa Rurale di Mori e Val di Gresta, Pro Loco di Mori e Val di Gresta, Pro Loco di Ronzo-Chienis e Val di Gresta. The project saw the realisation of scientific research on the landscape of the Gresta Valley (Trento), a panel exhibition, a demoethnoanthropological documentary, a publication, a series of conferences on the territory, lessons and planning with primary school classes throughout the territory. The demo-ethno-anthropological research coordinated by the writer mapped the material heritage and intangible knowledge concerning the perception of the landscape and the practices of water use and the agricultural dimension in an Alpine territory.