CURRICULUM VITAE
PROF. ROBERTO CIPRIANI

University Career and Position
1968 Master degree in literature at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', on sociology, supervisor Prof. Franco Ferrarotti.
1969-70 and 1970-71 Grant to study and research at the 'Luigi Sturzo' Institute in Rome. Post-graduate course in sociology at the School of the Faculty of Political Science at the LUISS University in Rome.
1971 Master degree at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' in Philosophy, supervisor Prof. Franco Ferrarotti.
1972 Assistant Professor habilitation in sociology of organisation at the University of Padua. Researcher in moral and social sciences at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
1974 Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
1978-79 Temporary Professor in Sociology at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' and then appointed in Sociology of knowledge.
1981 Habilitation in General Sociology.
1981-82 Visiting Scholar at the University of Berkeley.
1985 Lecturer in Biographical Methodology at the University of San Paulo in Brazil.
1989 Lecturer in Political Science at the Laval University in Québec.
1981-1994 Associate Professor in Sociology of knowledge at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
1992-93 Professor of sociology of religion at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
From 1993 General Secretary of the 'Euro Arab Social Research Group', based in Tunis.
1994 Habilitation as Full Professor in Sociology of cultural processes.
From 1994 Full Professor in Sociology of religion at the University of Chieti.
1996-1997 Appointed Professor in Sociology at the University of 'Roma Tre'.
From 1997 Full Professor in sociology at the University of 'Roma Tre'.
2000 Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Social Science University of Buenos Aires and Lecturer in Qualitative Methodology.

2008 Directeur d'Etudes - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme - Paris.

 

Prizes and Recognition
1983, 1986, 1990 and 1997 Winner of the "Premio della Cultura" (Culture outstanding) by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
1987 Winner, ex aequo, of the international "Pitrè - Salomone Marino" prize for the book Il Cristo rosso (Red Christ).
1987-88 Coordinator of the Division of cultural processes in the Department of sociology at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
From 1986 till 1994 coordinator of the post-graduate course in Theory and Qualitative Analysis at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.

From 2001 Director of Department of Education at the University Roma Tre.

From 2008 Member of Academic Senate at the University Roma Tre.

 

Membership
Member of the Conseil International de Rédaction of the journal Sociétés and member of the Consejo Editorial of the journal Sociedad y Religión.
Member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Contemporary Religion.
Member of the Council of Reference of the journal Implicit Religion.
1991-95 Member of the executive committee of the 'Institut International de Sociologie'.
1981-1991 Member of the Institute of Sociology of the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
1983-1994 Member of the executive committee in the PhD programme in Theory and Social Research at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'.
1983-1994 Member of the executive committee of the 'Société Internationale de Sociologie des Religions'.
1985-1988 and 1992-2000 Member of the executive committee of the 'Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française'.
1986-1990 Secretary for the committee of research on sociology of religion of the International Sociological Association.
1990-1994 Chairman of the same committee.
1987-1989 and 1998-2001 Member of the executive committee of the Italian Association of Sociology.
1998-2001 Secretary of the Italian Association of Sociology.

2001-2003 Vice President of the Italian Sociological Association.

2004-2007 President of the Italian Sociological Association.

2007-2011 Member of the executive committee of the Societé Internationale de Sociologie des Religions.

 

Editorial Board
1998-2004 Member of the editorial board of the journal International Sociology.
Member of the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, edited by W. H. Swatos, Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, Ca., 1997.
1994-98 Editor in Chief of the journal of the International Sociological Association: International Sociology.

2007 Advisory - Editor of Encyclopedia of Sociology (Blackwell).

2007-2008 Co-Editor of Annual Review of Italian Sociology.

 

Conferences Organisation
1983 Organisation of the International Conference on "Legittimazione e società" (Society and Legitimisation).
1993 Organisation of the International Conference "Religions sans frontières?".
1995 Organisation of the International Conference A.I.S.-A.I.S.L.F. "Tradizione e innovazione. L'approccio sociologico di lingua italiana e francese" (Tradition and innovation. The sociological approach of the Italian and French language).
2000 Organisation of the International Conference "Religious Phenomenon Today: Tradition, Change, Rejection", for the World Meeting of University Professors.

2004 Organisation of the International Conference "Education Antinomies in XXI Century"

General Academic Outstanding Information
Empirical and theoretical research in several countries, Mexico, Greece, Spain, France, England, United States and Poland.
Numerous conferences, seminars and lectures in different sites of Italy and in Mexico, France, Belgium, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, England, The Netherlands, Sweden, Morocco, Egypt, Japan, United States, Poland, Finland, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Argentina and Canada.
Articles and collaboration for several journals: La Critica Sociologica, Sociologia, Studi di Sociologia, Annali della Pubblica Istruzione, Segno, Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie, Sociétés, Social Compass, Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, Rocca, Sociological Analysis, Revista Internacional de Sociologia, La Palabra y el Hombre, Recherches Sociologiques, Quaderni di Sociologia, Revue de l'Institut de Sociologie, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Studi Romani, Sociologia urbana e rurale, Annales de l'Institut International de Sociologie, Bulletin de l'Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française.
More than 620 publications, and 44 books (as author, coauthor, main editor, in collaboration, or as editor) in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and in Russian).

 

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Car: Citroën

Watch: Omega, Zenith

Credit Card: Visa, Amex

Perfume: Acqua di Parma

Wine: Primitivo di Manduria, Aglianico del Vulture

Bank: Carige