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About Me
I am Giorgio Scalici, a Research Fellow for the FRED project in the Department of History, Anthropology, Religions, and Performing Arts at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” Previously, I served as a postdoctoral researcher (Investigador FCT fellow) at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia (INET-MD), Universidade Nova, Lisbon (Portugal), and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Durham University Centre for Death and Life Studies. I earned a BA in Music Disciplines from the University of Palermo (Italy) in 2009, an MA in Ethnomusicology from the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in 2013, and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Ethnomusicology from Durham University (UK) in 2019. My doctoral studies were supported by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC, 2015–2019).
Doctoral Research
My doctoral dissertation was supervised by Prof. Douglas Davies, a scholar of religion and expert in death studies, and Dr. Simon Mills, an ethnomusicologist specializing in shamanism. This collaboration gave my work a strong interdisciplinary foundation. During my PhD, I conducted six months of fieldwork in Indonesia, examining the emotional and religious world of the Wana people of Morowali. My thesis explored the values expressed through Wana rituals and the role of music and religion in managing emotions during crises such as death and illness. I am currently preparing my first monograph on the rituals, emotional frameworks, and musical traditions of the Wana people, which will be published by Bloomsbury in 2022.
Teaching Experience
Between 2010 and 2018, I was invited as a guest lecturer by various institutions, including the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome for its Professional Master’s Programmes in “Autoptic, Histopathological, Microbiological and Radiological Diagnostic Techniques,” Tadulako University (Indonesia) for the Religious Studies module, and the University of Palermo for the Music of the World module.
Conference Engagements
I have been a speaker at numerous international conferences, including the International Conference for Asia Pacific Arts Studies, EUROSEAS, ICTM, Death, Dying and Disposal, the Nordoff Robbins Plus Research Conference, ASEAS-UK Postgraduate Seminar, the British Association for the Study of Religion, Death & Culture, the European Association for the Study of Religions, and the Sydney Sacred Music Festival Forum.
Publications
My research on religion, death, music, and emotion has been published in high-impact scientific journals, including International Conference for Asia Pacific Arts Studies, Approaches, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, and Mortality, among others.