Giuseppina Paola Viscardi

Associate professor of History of Religions at the Alma Mater University of Bologna since November 2021, she holds a PhD in (Ancient) History from the University “Federico II” of Naples (2011) and was a research fellow at the University of Salerno (2015-2018). She is a member of IAHR, EASR, SISR; CUSGR as well as CUSR, SIS and AICC. In 2020/21 has coordinated, in partnership with Complutense University of Madrid, University of Helsinki and Jagellonica University of Krakow, the LARES [http://site.unibo.it/lares] Project - Language and Religion: Lexical Change and Variation in Ancient Religious Enculturation/Acculturation Phenomena (UNA Europa Seed Funding 2019011). She is currently a member of the LGRT Project - Lexicon of the Greek Ritual Terminology (Heritage PRA 2nd edition) coordinated by Jagiellonian University. Since 2023 she has been a member of the Quality Assurance (QA) Management Committee for the Master's Degree Course in Religions Histories Cultures (LM64). She edited the Italian translation of the collection of essays by Armin W. Geertz, Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Religion (Pàtron, 2020).