User:FrancescoMazzucotelli

I am currently teaching History of Turkey and the Near East at the State University of Pavia in Pavia, Italy. I hold a PhD in Political Institutions and Politics from the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. In my dissertation, I have been working on the processes of political and social mobilization among the Shi'a of Lebanon from the 1960s to our days. I studied and did field work research at the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon. I graduated cum laude from the Catholic University of Milan in 2005 with a thesis on the interrelation between confessional identity and administrative regimes in Ottoman Lebanon.

I am interested in, and work on a variety of topics related to the post-Ottoman space, primarily Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. In particular, I am attracted by the following domains of analysis and research: 1. Identity politics and the construction of ethnic, sectarian, and communal identities, loyalties and conflicts 2. The role of religion (particularly Islam and Eastern Christian Churches) in the public sphere 3. Urban spaces and processes of political and social inclusion and exclusion, with a particular interest in forms and channels of contestation.

This is my page on Academia.edu. This is my userpage on Wikipedia in Italian.