Dr. Elisa Lanari
Curriculum Vitae
For her PhD (Northwestern University, 2019), Elisa carried out extensive ethnographic and archival research in suburban Atlanta, USA, exploring how migrants and BIPOC residents reshaped the social life, spaces, and politics of white-flight suburbs. Her dissertation project, focusing specifically on one community and its transformations from the post-Civil Rights to the post-Trump era, was supported by both the Wenner-Gren and US National Science Foundation.
Prior to joining the MPI, Elisa was a Visiting Researcher at the SSIIM UNESCO Chair of the IUAV University of Venice, Italy, where she collaborated with two AMIF-funded projects identifying and implementing “best practices” for the socio-spatial inclusion of migrants and asylum seekers in the Veneto region. She holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, and Ethno-Linguistics (2010) and a BA in Philosophy (2007) from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Research projects
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Lanari, E. (2022). Latina M(other)work against racism: living with legal precarity in suburban Atlanta. Ethnic and Racial Studies. doi:10.1080/01419870.2022.2110382
Lanari, E. (2022). Speaking up, rising above: Latina lived citizenship in the metropolitan US South. Citizenship Studies, 26(1), 38 -54. doi:10.1080/13621025.2021.2011143
Lanari, E. (2019). “Envisioning a New City Center: Time, Displacement, and Atlanta’s Suburban Futures.” City & Society 31 (3): 365–91, https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12224
Lanari, E. (2017). “Excluded from ‘Everybody’s Neighborhood?’ Constructing Sandy Springs’ New City Center.” Atlanta Studies, https://doi.org/10.18737/atls20170209
Book Chapters
Lanari, E. (2022). ‘Here, morality is a sense of entitlement’: Citizenship, deservingness
and inequality in suburban America. In J. Tosic, & A. Streinzer (Eds.), Ethnographies
of Deservingness: Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality (pp. 222-250). New York: Berghahn. Link
Online Publications
Lanari, E. (2021). “What happened in Georgia? On suburbs and other anthropological blind spots.” Home/Field – a project of the Journal of Anthropology of North America https://www.homefieldanthro.org/index.php/2022/01/26/what-happened-in-georgia/
Garofalo, L., Lanari, E., and
M. Cavicchioli (2020). “Sounds Fishy? The “Sardine” movement in Italy.” Anthropology
News website, September 10, 2020. DOI: 10.14506/AN.148
Others
Lanari, E., and L. Mafizzoli (2021). “Pensare la contemporaneità” (Thinking about the contemporary) in G. Ligi, I colori dell’Antropologia, Giunti TVP Editori, pp. 392-432.