Nadia Bellardi
Assistant / PhD candidate
Assistant / PhD candidate
Ethnologisches Seminar
Münsterplatz 19
4051
Basel
Schweiz
Curriculum Vitae
Nadia Bellardi is a PhD candidate and Assistant at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland. She is part of the SNF-funded research project “Inherited Futures? Objects, Time, Knowledge” led by PD Dr. Lorena Rizzo and Prof. Dr. George-Paul Meiu. In her participatory and multi-sited PhD project, Nadia investigates affective landscapes, memories and desires of mothers and daughters with mobile biographies. The focus lies on (queer) becoming and belonging against persisting and intersecting xenophobia, homophobia, and anti-Muslim hatred in late-capitalist societies.
Nadia pursued Political Science and International Relations at Università Cattolica, Milan, with an MA thesis on the legacy of women’s emancipation movements in Turkey (1995, summa cum laude). She also obtained a Master of Advanced Studies in Cultural Mediation and Anthropology of the Mediterranean from Ca' Foscari University of Venice in 2004. From 2012 onwards, Nadia worked as an independent expert on (community) media, migration and inclusion for the Council of Europe and other international organisations. She has been a member of the Board of the Swiss Foundation for Radio and Culture SRKS/FSRC since 2018 and was in the collective management team of Radio LoRa in Zurich from 2005 to 2010. Nadia also has extensive experience in intercultural communication and advocacy for the private and non-profit sectors.
Main Areas of Work
- Queer/feminist anthropology
- Mobility and migration
- Memory, place and the senses
- Sensory and multimodal ethnography
Regional Focus
- Central and South-Eastern Europe
- Mediterranean and MENA region