Dr. Diego Malara

Biography

Diego Maria Malara joined the University of Glasgow in 2018 as a Senior Lecturer in Sociological & Cultural Studies. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in Medical Anthropology from the same institution, an MA in African Studies from Dalarna University, and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Bologna. Before joining the University of Glasgow, he held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, as well as a teaching fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral fieldwork included research at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at the University of Addis Ababa. His research interests encompass rituals, religion, embodiment, ethics, spirit possession, witchcraft, kinship, religious media, visual anthropology, and food-related practices. He has conducted fieldwork on Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity from 2011 to 2013 and began exploring visual ethnography during this period. His documentary film 'The Devil Holy Water' (2016) examines new forms of Ethiopian Orthodox exorcism and has won international awards, screening at academic and film festivals across Europe and Australia. He is actively involved in research groups focused on Social Anthropology and Migration.

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