Fabio Vicini

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•   CV (English)   (pdf, en, 340 KB, 05/09/24)
•   CV (Italiano)   (pdf, it, 450 KB, 05/09/24)

I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Verona, currently also serving as a Senior Research Associate in the "Quite Aid" Project (https://quietaid.info/). I am the co-founder and convener of the EASA Muslim Worlds Network (MSN) (https://easaonline.org/networks/mwn/).

Previously, I held the position of Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Istanbul 29 Mayis University from 2014 to 2020. During my tenure, I also served as an Affiliate Member of the School of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montréal, from 2019 to 2020. Before these roles, I was a TÜBITAK Post-doctoral Researcher in Istanbul from 2013 to 2014, and a Research Fellow at BGSMCS, Berlin, in 2011.

I earned my Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from SUM – Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (now Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze) in 2013. In the same year, I was honored with the Malcolm H. Kerr Award in the Social Sciences by MESA. My book "Reading Islam: Life and Politics of Brotherhood in Modern Turkey," drawn from that dissertation, has been published in Brill's Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia Series, edited by Dale F. Eickelman.

Currently, I am initiating a new project on Islamic links connecting Turkey with Central Asia and supervising a PRIN (Research project funded by Italy's Ministry of University and Research) on Muslim albanophone communities in Italy.

My work has been published in various scholarly journals, including Culture and Religion, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Ethnicities, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, La Ricerca Folklorica, and Sociology of Islam. I am now co-editing the '[Oxford] Handbook of Religion in Turkey' (alongside Caroline Tee and Philip Dorroll: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/55832), and a special section dedicated to Divine Presence in Islam for the HAU - Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2024, with Lili Di Puppo).

I engage in interdisciplinary inquiry at the intersection of Anthropology, Islamic studies, and Social Theory. My research interests encompass the Anthropology of Islam; Secularism in Turkey, the MENA region, and Europe; Religion and Modernity; Political Theology; and Ethics. I welcome Ph.D. and postdoctoral students whose research aligns with these themes, particularly focusing on Europe, Turkey, Central Asia, and South-East Asia.

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