(Update January 2013)

Cristina Grasseni, M.Phil., Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Fondazione Giannino Bassetti (2006-2011), was trained in Philosophy, History of Science and Social Anthropology with Visual Media at the Universities of Pavia, Cambridge and Manchester.
Radcliffe Fellow (2011/12), Film Study Center Fellow (2011/12) and Visiting Scholar (2012/14) at Harvard University, she is a full time researcher at the University of Bergamo where her topics of interests include apprenticeship, sustainability and development, responsibility and innovation, communities of practice and learning.
Her most important books are: Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards (ed., Berghahn, Oxford 2007), Developing Skill, Developing Vision: Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps (Berghahn, Oxford, 2009), Beyond Alternative Food Networks (Berg, exp. October 2013).
In Italian: Luoghi comuni. Antropologia dei luoghi e pratiche della visione, Lubrina Editore, 2009, Imparare a guardare. Sapienza ed esperienza della visione in una prospettiva antropologica (ed., Franco Angeli, 2008). La reinvenzione del Cibo. Culture del gusto fra tradizione e globalizzazione ai piedi delle Alpi, Qui Edit, 2007, Pratiche e cognizione. Note di ecologia della cultura (with Francesco Ronzon), Meltemi, 2004. 
Links:
Radcliffe Fellow: Harvard University 2012
Teaching and Research: University of Bergamo
Public Engagement: Community map of Val San Martino, Ecomuseo della Val San Martino.