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Greg Smith

  • Lecturer

Greg Smith has taught for Cornell in Rome since 2003. Over the years, he has been a faculty member of many American and British universities in Italy, including American University (Washington, DC), the University of California Education Abroad Program, Temple University, and Nottingham Trent University. He was the dean of academic affairs at the American University of Rome for more than a decade. He has carried out extensive research in rural parts of Italy, where he maintains an interest in food production and distribution. He has extensive scholarly background on the city of Rome and is currently engaged in research which takes him to the peripheral districts of major Italian cities.

headshot of a man with blond hair and glasses wearing a blue striped shirt

Publications

  • The Landscapes of Italian Food: Local Development and Healthy Practices

    with Gilda Berruti. London: Routledge, 2023.

  • Pasolini: Narrare la Città

    Rome: Media&Books, 2022.

  • Urban Narratives and Spaces of Rome: Pier Paola Pasolini and the City

    London: Routledge, 2021.

  • Public Space in Rome Through the Ages

    with Jan Gadeyne (eds). Farnham: Ashgate, 2013.

  • La Comunità e lo State: Antropologia e Storia nella Marsica del Novecento

    Loco dei Marsi: Aleph Editrice, 2012.

Classes

  • Rome Workshop

    CRP 4160

  • Contemporary Italy: Politics and Society

    CRP 3720

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Paesaggi Pini Pinoli: Notes on Rome's Edible Landscape

    University of Arkansas Rome Center, 2019.

  • Performing Citizen Narrative

    Biennial of Public Space, Rome, Italy, 2013.

  • Narrative in Place

    Biennial of Public Space, Rome, Italy, 2011.

  • Rome Planning Workshop: From an Experiential to a Reflexive Approach

    with Mildred Warner, Carlotta Fioretti, and Claudia Meschiari, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 2010.

  • Prossemica e Distanza Cittadina

    Conference on Urban Distress, Rome City Hall, Italy, 2009.

  • Media and the Appropriation of Place in Central Italy: A Geosemiotic Analysis

    International Visual Sociology Association Conference, 2009.