After my degree in Geography (1992) at the University of Bologna, I took a Ph.D. in “Uomo e Ambiente” under the supervision of Franco Farinelli at the University of Padua (1994-1997)
ACADEMIC CAREER
From 2000 to 2005, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna.
From 2005 to 2018, I was an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna
In 2011 I obtained the National Scientific Qualification as a Full professor in the subject area 11/B (M-GGR-01)
Since 2018, I have been a Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication of the University of Bologna.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Undergraduate programmes, University of Bologna
See the list of courses (from 2004-2005 academic year to the present) published in the Didactic [https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/alessandra bonazzi/didattica] section of this web site .
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Over the last several years, I have been carrying out my research along these main lines:
1) I continued my previous research in the field of Epistemology and History of Geographical Thought.The results of this research led to the monograph A. Bonazzi, Manuale di geografia culturale [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/112214], ROMA, Laterza, 2011.
2) Informal economy, urban space, foodification. The results appeared in
Bologna: breve geografia di una "città à la carte" [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/712834], in: A. Bonazzi, E. Frixa, a cura di, Mercati Storici, rigenerazione e consumo urbano. Il caso di Bologna, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2019.
Alessandra Bonazzi, Bologna City Branding [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/815306], «BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA», 2020, 14, pp. 59 - 67.
3) The construction of European space and the sea. The results appeared in Il piano dell'Oceano: James Cook e Immanuel Kant [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/653229], «SEMESTRALE DI STUDI E RICERCHE DI GEOGRAFIA», 2018, XXX, pp. 55 - 67; Bonazzi, La piega del Mediterraneo [https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/668565]; Geografia, Modernità e Mare. Breve storia di uno spazio globale e delle sue carte, Carocci.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Comitato scientifico per la progettata collana Classics in Human Geography (Ashgate)
Referee della Rivista Geografica Italiana
Comitato Memorie Ricerche e Studi della Società Geografica Italiana.
2022 Chief Editor Casa editrice A.ge.I
2018-Board member, Doctoral Program in Philosophy, Science, Cognition, and Semiotics (PSCS), University of Bologna, IT – Dipartimento FILCOM, Università di Bologna
2022-Current, Board member, Doctoral Program in “Semiotica: Studi su Testi, Discorso, Media e Cultura” - A.A. 2022/2023 (XXXVIII ciclo) -Università di Palermo
