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Alessandro Lutri is an Associate Professor in Anthropological Disciplines (M-DEA/01) at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania. He teaches Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Cultural Heritage, Environmental Anthropology, and Applied and Public Anthropology in various undergraduate and graduate programs. His academic journey began with honors in Cultural Anthropology from the Universities of Bologna and Siena (1994), followed by a PhD in Anthropology of Complex Societies from the University of Catania (2001), with postgraduate training at the City University of New York. He was part of the teaching staff at the Doctoral School in Anthropology and Historical-Linguistic Studies at the University of Messina until 2013.
His research interests are deeply interdisciplinary, focusing on collective identification processes, cognitive anthropology, environmental anthropology, and the epistemology of anthropological knowledge. He has conducted extensive fieldwork on the Italian-Albanian diaspora in Contessa Entellina and on industrial transformation in Augusta-Priolo-Melilli and Gela, engaging with the concept of the Anthropocene. His major publications include the monographs Imagining Arbëreshë (2005), Forms of Life and Human Nature (2014), and the forthcoming Landscapes of Ruins/Regenerated Landscapes. He has edited key collections on mind theories, nature-culture debates, and Wittgenstein’s methodology.
Lutri’s recent research projects include the FIR 2014-16 Smart Assemblies, PRIN 2016-19 Ecofrictions of the Anthropocene, PRIN 2017-2021 on migration and ritual, and the REVERSE project (2020) on responsible research and environmental futures. These works collectively explore sustainability, industrial reconversion, and citizen responses to environmental challenges. His publications reflect a trajectory from identity studies to cognitive and environmental anthropology, increasingly engaging with political ecology, sustainability rhetorics, and epistemological questions.
- European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA)
- Italian Society of Applied Anthropology (SIAA)
- Italian Society of Cultural Anthropology (SIAC)
- Italian Society of Environmental History (SISAM)
- TeSA - Interdepartmental Study Centre 'Territory, Development and Environment', University of Catania
Lutri actively supervises graduate theses, with a structured process involving topic selection, proposal development, and regular supervision. He emphasizes originality, methodological rigor, and ethical scholarship, discouraging plagiarism and last-minute corrections. His advising spans themes like food consumption, fashion sustainability, heritage writing, social stigma, migration, and urban perception. He is committed to mentoring students through empirical and theoretical research, particularly in ethnographic methodology.
His work integrates philosophical inquiry with field-based ethnography, bridging theory and practice in anthropology. Through his leadership in research projects and academic service, Lutri contributes significantly to anthropological discourse on identity, cognition, environment, and transformation in contemporary Italy.
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