Asher Daniel Colombo

PhD University of Trento; joined the University of Bologna in 1998. Editor of the journal "Polis. Studi e ricerche su società e politica in Italia". VS at Brown, Berkeley, Windsor. | P.I. of the PRIN project "Death, Dying and Disposal in Italy: Attitudes, Behaviours, Beliefs, Rituals" (MIUR funding 2015FR7MKM) | Chair of the Carlo Cattaneo Institute Research Foundation (Bo).

Most recent publications:

• Colombo, Asher and Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna. 2024. “Data and trends in assisted suicide and euthanasia, and some related demographic issues.” Population and Development Review. 50 (1):233-257.
  
• Colombo, A. and Molinari , R. (2023) “Displacement of Death From Home to Hospital in Historical Perspective: The Case of Italy, 1883–2013”, J Int Hist, 53 (3):439-469
• "Morire all'italiana. Pratiche, riti, credenze" (a cura di; Bologna, Il Mulino, 2022) | "La solitudine di chi resta. La morte ai tempi del contagio", Bologna, 2021
• Colombo, A. - Vlach, E. "Why Do We Go to the Cemetery? Religion, Civicness, and the Cult of the Dead in Twenty-First Century Italy , Rev Rel Res, 63, 217–243 (2021). 
  
  

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