Mario Marasco

Mario Marasco serves as a Research Fellow at Sapienza University of Rome within the DICEA Department and contributes as teaching staff at UniCamillus University of Rome, where he instructs Demoethnoanthropological Disciplines (SDEA-01/A) for the BSc Nursing program. His dual institutional engagement centers on urban social dynamics through Sapienza's LabSU-Laboratory of Urban Studies and field-based anthropological research.

His scholarly work investigates youth marginality, housing precarity, and squatting in urban environments, with extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Mekelle, Tigray (Ethiopia) under the Italian Ethnological Mission in Tigray (MEITE). Key research areas include youth gang formation, microcredit systems, gender construction processes, and prison policy analysis, culminating in his 2021 monograph "Spacciati rabbiosi coatti. Periferia romana e costruzione del panico morale" examining moral panic construction in Roman peripheral communities.

Marasco maintains active affiliations with Sapienza's LabSU-Laboratory of Urban Studies and the Italian Ethnological Mission in Tigray (MEITE), integrating development anthropology frameworks with contemporary urban sociology to address social exclusion phenomena across Italian and East African contexts.