Cristina Moretti

Cristina Moretti serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, specializing in urban and sensory anthropology with fieldwork in Milan, Italy and Vancouver, Canada. Her research examines how communities inhabit, theorize, and contest urban spaces through embodied practices and sensory experiences.

Education:

• PhD in Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
• MA in Anthropology, Simon Fraser University

Her research program investigates public space politics, sensory urban ethnography, redevelopment landscapes (fences, ruins, construction zones), and community responses to urban transformation. She pioneers walking methodologies to foreground local knowledge about cities, while exploring intersections of migration, memory, precarity, and embodied knowledge in urban contexts. Her work bridges theoretical innovation with community-engaged practice through experimental and multimodal approaches.

Analysis of her 13 publications (2025-2008) reveals consistent focus on sensory urban ethnography, with Milan and Vancouver as primary field sites. Key thematic clusters include: (1) sensory memory and migration narratives, (2) experimental writing and ethnographic representation, (3) walking as methodological practice, and (4) visual politics in public space. Her scholarship demonstrates growing emphasis on multimodal and creative ethnographic forms since 2021.

Scientific Awards:

• No scientific awards listed in source materials

While specific advising details and grant history remain undocumented in provided texts, her role as co-founder of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography indicates leadership in developing collaborative research frameworks. Current teaching includes ethnographic methods and anthropological theory courses.

She co-founded and co-curates the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, which develops creative multimodal approaches to anthropological research and public engagement through projects like "Imaginings: Comics and the Anthropological Imagination" and experimental soundscapes.