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Alessandro Tarsia Current Graduate Student

Alessandro Tarisa is an international Ph.D. candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. In Italy, he studied history, philosophy, communications studies, and anthropology. Before coming to Canada, his main interest was the ethnography of ancient autochthonous populations during Greek and Roman colonization. Indeed, he wrote a book and an article about ergotism in the ancient Mediterranean world. He has also written an ethnohistory of the Calabrese mafia in his region – Calabria. He is a heterosexual, white visiting student/settler from the southern Italian working class who acknowledges his privileges in Canada. He participated in the Stó:lõ Ethnohistory Fieldschool with a project on tobacco in their historical consciousness. In addition, he has the honour and privilege of being a researcher and an instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley of Indigenous histories and colonialism.