Two full-time and two part-time staff oversee the CET Florence program. The Italy Programs Director manages academics and oversees faculty and staff. The Resident Director oversees field trips, activities
and housing and helps students adjust to life in Italy. Two CET Italian roommates serve as part-time program assistants and
offer support to all
staff members and students on day-to-day issues.
Most faculty come from the University of
Florence.
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Emiliana F. Caldarelli, Director
of Italy Programs A native Italian, Emiliana earned a Laurea in Political Science from the University of Florence in 1996. In 1994, during her
graduate studies, she was awarded a scholarship from RutgersUniversity in New
Jersey where she conducted a research study about the financing of
political campaigns. After returning to Italy, her work has focused on educating American students in
Italy. She served as
coordinator for the Rutgers Study
Abroad Program in Florence, and from 1997 until 2002, she taught classes on Italian culture, politics
and history to American Universities Programs in Florence such
as Rutgers Junior Year in Florence, Richmond College, Portland
Community College,
and University of San Diego - Law School. Emiliana has been involved with CET's programs in Italy since their inception. She
began as CET's Siena Resident Director (2001-2003), continued as Florence
Resident Director (2003-2004), and has served as Italy Programs Director since 2004.
Aria Cabot, Florence Resident Director Aria
has spent three of the past five years studying and working in Italy and has
considerable experience working with U.S. university students as both an instructor
and an administrator. She earned a B.A. in Italian and English at Smith College
and is completing her Masters in Italian at the University of Wisconsin
Madison. During her undergraduate studies, she studied at the University of
Florence through Smith College's Junior Year Abroad program. As an
undergraduate, she worked as a Resident Advisor at Smith's home campus. During
her time in Italy, she taught English as a second language, worked at two
different restaurants, translated and wrote subtitles for the Toscana Film
Commission and in 2007, was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to
teach English and American culture to high school students in Cagliari,
Sardinia.
Gene Baldini Gene
Baldini is a native born American who has resided with his family in Italy for the past twenty years.He received an M.F.A from the prestigious
Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art where
he studied under the direction of Grace Hartigan and Salvatore Scarpitta. His
B.F.A. was earned at the University of Illinois.Baldini has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including a
Fulbright fellowship to Italy for painting. He has exhibited on a
regular basis in the U.S and various countries in Europe since 1975. His teaching experience
spans sixteen years of working with students at all levels including graduate
seminars. His work may be found in various private and public collections both
in the US and Europe.
Marcello Bellini Marcello Bellini was born in Florence where he
has lived the greater part of his life. Upon graduating from the University of Florence, he
went on to specialize in history, philosophy and political science and was eventually awarded full professorship at
the University of Florence, He
began teaching at various Americanuniversities and study
abroad programs in Italy such as Cal State
University Florence, The University of Connecticut, and many others.He also holds a position as a lecturer of
Renaissance History at the British Institute of Florence. Marcello
has published many articles on the History of Florence and has contributed
written text for several videos.His
most recent publication is about The Religious Iconography of the "Chapel of the Magi" in the MediciPalace.
Guiliana D'Urso After receiving her Masters in Art History from the University of Rome, Giuliana D'Urso passed the national examination for professional certification as a teacher of Art History at the high school level. Since 2000 she has been teaching Art History and Italian as Foreign Language at several Florence schools. She began teaching for CET Academic Programs in 2006. She has cooperated
on several occasions with the main cultural institutes of Florence,
accompanying school groups to visit monuments, museums and art
exhibitions. She occasionally works as editing operator for the revision of school manuals of art history (Storia
dell'Arte by Argan, Sansoni Edit).
Alexandra Massini Alexandra
Massini has studied Art History
at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where she took her
B.A.and M.A. degrees. She has worked at Sotheby's Auctioneers in Rome (Old master paintings
and drawings) and the ThyssenMuseum in Madrid. More recently she has written for Blue Guides and published her own
guide book to Rome. She has been invited as guest lecturer and study leader for a number
of European and North American institutions such as the National Trust U.S.and
the Chrysler Museum of Art. Since 2005 she has been teaching for various
American study programs such as Rutgers in Florence, Richmond in Rome and CET. Her fields of specialization include Roman Art, 14C art
in Tuscany, Italian Renaissance Art, Michelangelo, the History of Sculpture,
Baroque art in Rome.
Peter Porçal Peter
Porçal completed art history studies at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and continued his research at
the University of Leiden (Netherlands), ColumbiaUniversity in New York (as a Fullbright visiting scholar)
and the VaticanSchool of biblioteconomia (codicology) in
the Vatican City, Rome. He has been affiliated with and taught
art history at several North American institutions and universities, such as: Ontario
College of Art and Design from Toronto, RichmondUniversity in London, Fashion Institute of Technology
from New York, and MalaspinaUniversityCollege from Nanaimo (Canada). For several years he has been
teaching for CET Academic Programs in Florence and Siena, Italy. He has published mostly on iconography
and iconology subjects in the works of Italian 15th and 16th
century artists like Domenico Ghirlandaio, Andrea Mantegna, Correggio and
Titian. Kristin Stasiowski Kristin Stasiowski received her B.A. in Medieval Studies and English Literature from Georgetown University in 2001 and her Ph.D. in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University in 2009. Her current work is on the modern Italian poet Clemente Rebora, but her other research interests include Dante, Medieval and Renaissance astrology and film. Since 2007 she has been a docent for Context Travel giving guided walking seminars in and around Florence, Italy. She has also been a guest lecturer for Kent State University in Florence since 2008. In addition to her Italian Cultural History course for CET, she is currently teaching a Modern Italian Literature course at New York University's Florence campus.
Floarea Vîrban Floarea Vîrban was born in Romania
where she studied Letters (BA, in 1991) and Philosophy (BA in 1995 and MA in
Theoretical Philosophy in 1996) at BucharestUniversity.
She was awarded a first Ph.D. title (Magna cum laude) in Human Sciences
in December 2003 (University
of Bucharest)
and a second one in June 2007 (European University Institute). Floarea is a
researcher with more then 15 years of expertise in Academic research. She
started working as a researcher in December 1991 for the RomanianAcademy.
She has continued her research career at the European University Institute
which she joined in September 2000. She has served as a visiting researcher in Moscow
(10 times, between 1995 and 2003, RussianAcademy
of Sciences and Russian State Archives), Budapest
(1999, HungarianAcademy
of Science) and Brussels
(2004). Floarea is currently involved in a research project on Eastern
Europe with the CSSEO (Centro Studi sulla Storia dell'Europa Orientale, in
Trento) and is teaching European Politics at CET in Florence and
Siena. Her main Academic interest is in trans-disciplinary and
theoretical research in human sciences.
