March 8, 2024
On the occasion of International Women's Day, we are honored to celebrate the impressive women teaching this semester at VIU in the Globalization Program!
Their research spans a range of disciplines from international law, architecture, renaissance studies, language acquisition, cross-cultural and international management, science communication, public engagement, sustainable development, environmental studies, innovative pedagogies and chemistry.
Dorian Canelas is Associate Professor of the Practice of Chemistry at Duke University, and has been teaching general, organic, and analytical chemistry for over twenty years. She has received numerous research, education, and leadership awards, such as the 2020 Marcus Hobbs Award for significant, long-term contributions to the American Chemical Society and the 2017 David and Janet Vaughan Brooks Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. She has more than 40 scholarly publications and patents, and her active research involves studying implementation of student-centered pedagogies in large-sized gateway courses, creating curricular pathways to increase undergraduate retention in science tracks, and developing online courses and resources.
Selected Publications:
Cultivating PhD aspirations during college, Jones, D. S.; Gillette, D. D.; Cooper, P. E.; Salinas, R. Y.; Hill, J. L.; Black, S. J.; Lew, D. J.; Canelas, D. A.”, CBE-Life Sciences Education, 2022
Persistence, performance, goal setting, and goal orientation in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Li, K.; Johnsen, J.; Canelas, D. A., British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Cooperative Learning in Large Sections of Organic Chemistry: Transitioning to POGIL, Canelas, D. A.*; Hill, J. L.; Carden, R. G. In Active Learning in Organic Chemistry: Implementation and Analysis, Eds. C. O. Welder and J. Houseknecht, ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2019
Teaching at VIU:
2024 | System Level Thinking in Color: from Venetian Glass to the Evolution of Paints, Fabrics, & Fashion| GP Course 2023
2024 | Sustainable Development of Medicine and Health in Venice | GP Course 2023
Monica Centanni is Full Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Università Iuav di Venezia and at Università di Catania, teaching “Iconology and the Classical Tradition” and “Dramaturgy and the origins of Theatre”. She has a degree in Classical Literature and Specialization in Classical Philology (Università di Padova), and a PhD in Greek and Latin Philology (Università Urbino).
She is also Director of classicA, Iuav’s Centre for Research and Studies on Architecture and the Classical Tradition; Director of “La Rivista di Engramma”; Member of the Board of the International Association of Renaissance Studies “Artes Renascentes”; Italian representative of Arc-Net (European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama) and Italian member for the International network “Diazoma Association” (based in Athens, aiming to the revival of the ancient theater buildings, with Greece and Spain).
Research interests in Ancient Theatre (structures of Greek Tragedy; political functions of Greek Drama; revival of Classical Drama in the 20th century); Renaissance Art and Culture, and the dynamics of the Classical Tradition and its Afterlife in Western Art and Literature; a special focus on the methodology of Aby Warburg and Mnemosyne Atlas.
Among her books:
- Aby Warburg and Living Thought, Ronzani Editore, Dueville 2022
- Three Ladies, Three Medals (Cecilia Gonzaga, Isabella d’Este, Elisabetta Gonzaga), Peeters, Leuven 2023 (in print).
Teaching at VIU:
2024 | Art and Architecture in Renaissance Venice | GP Course (also taught in Spring 2023, Spring 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017)
Sara De Vido has a PhD in International Law (University of Padua) and is Associate Professor of international law at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
She is a member of the Academic Council at VIU and Delegate of the Rector for gender equality and for the Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ca’ Foscari University. She is also an affiliate of the Manchester International Law Centre. She has been teaching at VIU since 2016, where she also started the Model European Union, a simulation of the activity of EU legislative bodies.
Her main research interests are countering violence against women in international and European law, environmental law, rights of nature and ecocentric approaches to law. countering violence against women in international and European law, environmental law, rights of nature and ecocentric approaches to law
Among her publications:
- Violence against women’s health in international law, Manchester University press, 2020
- A report for the European Commission on the criminalisation of violence against women in 31 European States, 2021
- Health, in Tipping Points in international law (J. Haskell and J. d’Aspremont eds), Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Teaching at VIU:
2024 | Migration and Gender: a Legal and Literary Perspective | VIU Summer School
2024 | Globalization, Ethics, Welfare and Human Rights | GP Course (with Patricio Ignacio Barbirotto)
2023 | Migration and Gender: a Legal and Literary Perspective | VIU Summer School
2023 | Global Governance for Peace and Security, Cooperation and Development | GP Course
2022 | Rights of Nature and Animal Rights: an Ecocentric Legal Approach | GP Course
2022 | Migration and Gender: a Legal and Literary Perspective | VIU Summer School
2022 | What is a People? Social, Political, and Legal Controversies | International PhD Academy
2021 | Globalization, Ethics, Welfare and Human Rights | GP Course
2020 | Global Governance for Peace and Security, Cooperation and Development | GP Course
2019 | Gender Studies | GP Course
Carola Drago has an MA in Asian Languages and Culture from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she is currently pursuing a Professional Master's Degree in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language and Promotion of Italian Culture. She has been teaching Italian with the Istituto Venezia since 2022.
Through her own studies and experiences in language and cultural exchange, including being an active member of the Erasmus Student Network while a student, she has gained in-depth insights into language acquisition and learning and has become a gifted teacher.
Teaching at VIU:
2024 | Italian for Foreigners | GP Course
Ilda Mannino is the Scientific Coordinator of the Intensive Graduate Activities and of the TEN Program on Sustainability at VIU.
An environmental scientist, her current research interests focus on sustainable development, green economy, industrial ecology, science communication and public engagement, environmental economy, environmental policy and integrated coastal zone management.
She is involved in research and education projects on these topics at an international level. Among these she is currently involved in the Horizon Europe COALESCE Project, to develop the EU Competence Centre on Science Communication and its Academy, and she is the scientific coordinator of the SMACH Forum project, to promote sustainable cultural heritage management in response to climate change. In 2018-2021 she was the scientific coordinator of the Horizon 2020 QUEST Project on Quality science communication within which she contributed to the development of a toolkit on quality science communication for scientists and recommendations for policy-makers.
SMACH: Sustainable Management of Cultural Heritage in the Balkans in Response to Climate Change; MUHAI: Human-Centri Artificial Intelligence; QUEST: Project on Quality Science Communication, within which she contributed to the development of the toolkit for scientists and recommendations for policy-makers, and the Coalesce project in which she is contributing to the Science Communication Academy, capacity building and training platform that will enhance the capacities of scientists, communication officers, journalists and decision-makers to support quality and effective science communication
Teaching at VIU:
2024 | Globalization, Environment and Sustainable Development | GP Course (every Spring since 2009)
2024 | Equipping Researchers with Skills, Strategies and Confidence for Science Communication | Spring School
2023 | Science Communication and Sustainability | GP Course (since 2021)
2022 | Science Communication Today: Challenges and Opportunities in the SDGs Era | Graduate Seminar
Emmanuelle Sauvage is Associate Professor in Cross-Cultural & International Management at the University of Bordeaux School of Management (IAE). She holds a PhD in International Management, a Master's degree in Translation and Interpreting, a degree in Economics from London School of Economics and a Spanish Law degree. After a first professional activity within the UN as an interpreter, which led her to develop a great interest for the understanding of intercultural synergies, she joined Academia and achieved a PhD in International Business using anthropological & ethnographic approaches. Her main focus is related to cross-cultural encounters and the dynamics of human interaction within international environments. She is also interested in the linguistic dimension of those encounters and in the hidden prints left by culture on language. More recently she started new research related to CSR and to the relationship with work of younger generations such as millennials.
Her recent publications:
Entre adaptation aux contraintes légales et adaptation culturelle : analyse comparée internationale pour des vins & spiritueux de marques françaises (with E. Karsaklian) In Marketing & Management du vin 2nd Vol – (Dir. Foued CHERIET) Ed. ISTE, Sept. 2023
L'analyse du discours du consommateur par analyse factorielle des correspondances avec classification hiérarchique descendante. Une application à la consommation de vin biologique (with A. Cuya et J-P Galan) In Quels outils théoriques et méthodologiques pour l'analyse de données langagières ? (Dir. Stéphanie ROUSSEL) Ed. Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, Sept. 2023
La RSE, un concept décontextualisé? In Le grand livre de la RSE (Dir. Stéphane TREBUCQ). Ed. DUNOD, Nov. 2023
Teaching at VIU:
2024 | Intercultural Communication. Culture, Language and Management: Beyond the Invisible Evidence. The traps of ELF (English as a Lingua Franca)
| GP Course
2024 | Identity, Heritage and Globalization. Understanding & acting in a Globalized World: Cross-cultural Management and International Teams’ Management
| GP Course
Chiara Velicogna is an architect by training and holds a Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urbanism. She graduated at Iuav University of Venice in Architecture for Heritage Preservation with a thesis on Venetian bridges, focusing on the XVI-century Ponte delle Guglie. Her research interests are varied, ranging from the Venetian Renaissance to contemporary architecture. She has been the recipient of a research fellowship at Iuav University in 2023, where she has been working as teaching assistant; she is also a teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano. She has co-tutored two international summer schools on Venice in 2019 and 2023, as well as working as an independent researcher. She is a member of the editorial committee of the “Engramma” journal since 2020.
Teaching at VIU:
2024 | Art and Architecture in Renaissance Venice | GP Course
Laura Ventruto has been teaching Italian at VIU since Fall 2021. She graduated from the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) of Trieste with a degree in Conference Interpreting (English, French, and Italian).
She has 15 years of experience as a professional interpreter and translator in a wide variety of fields, such as law, technology, and cinema, and taught all levels of Italian at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles. Laura particularly enjoyed interpreting at cultural events, contributing to the spread of Italian culture in California. She is currently pursuing a Professional Master’s degree at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Teaching at VIU:
2024 | Italian for Foreigners | GP Course
