What is your current appointment?

Archivist and Manager of sales at Hyperborea Srl - Gruppo Panini Cultura (Pisa and Modena - Italy) 

Which methodological tools did you acquire in IMT? 

Read the context: to approach an issue not as an isolated challenge, but as a part of a complex system of relationships and interdependencies. 

How did your experience in IMT shape your career?

In my daily work, I apply the experiences I gained at IMT in planning innovative and concrete projects. Moreover, the experience from my PhD has helped me establish business relationships in the Italian cultural entourage. 

IMT in a word: #Independence 

What is your current appointment?

I am Lecturer (Teaching) in Sustainable Heritage and Data Analysis at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage. I am also the Programme Director of Sustainable Heritage MSc. 

Which methodological tools did you acquire in IMT? 

I acquired many tools that I still find useful in my professional life including critical thinking, archival research, project management and work-life balance.  

How did your experience in IMT shape your career?

IMT helped me to develop my approach to research and provided me opportunities to collaborate with experts in the field. It helped me establish myself as an expert on crowdsourcing during disasters affecting cultural heritage, an emerging field of research. 

IMT in a word: #Innovation 

What is your current appointment?

I am Lecturer (Department of Social and Political Sciences) at Bocconi University, Milan, where I teach in the Arts and Cultural Management degree programmes. In the same institution I am affiliate in the Research Unit in Economics and management in the fields of art and culture of the Green Research Center.

Which methodological tools did you acquire in IMT? 

My time at IMT was fundamental in exposing me to different, rigorous methodological traditions, thanks to the multidisciplinary nature of the program and the faculty.

How did your experience in IMT shape your career?

It has radically shaped it: it has provided the foundation and context to ground and support my pre-existing interdisciplinary vocation. 

IMT in a word: #Study 

What is your current appointment?

I am Senior Archaeological Illustrator at the Northampton branch of MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology).

Which methodological tools did you acquire in IMT? 

During my time at IMT, I acquired a strong research methodology, but, above all, I learned how to effectively cooperate with professionals from different backgrounds. 

How did your experience in IMT shape your career?

Through its interdisciplinary approach, IMT changed my attitude towards research, pushing me to analyse any topic from diverse and at times unconventional viewpoints. This has been invaluable in my current position, where I focus to create visual outputs for different audiences by closely collaborating with experts across different fields.

IMT in a word: #Challenge 

What is your current appointment?

I am a Visiting Scholar at Chicago-Kent College of Law, in Chicago, Illinois and have also founded my own company, Fashion by Felicia, LLC.

Which methodological tools did you acquire in IMT? 

Interdisciplinarity, a deep knowledge of Italian cultural heritage law, and an ability to communicate effectively with archivists and more cultural heritage professionals who are not necessarily lawyers.

How did your experience in IMT shape your career?

My time at IMT offered me two main things: the ability to build a foundation of knowledge about Italian cultural property law in comparison to U.S. law, and the opportunity to network with fashion and luxury brands in Italy and in the United States. The foundation of knowledge is one I still use every day in my research, scholarship, and writing, and the contacts I built have opened opportunities for collaboration as part of my academic projects and business activities.   

IMT in a word: #AcademicCloister 

What is your current appointment?

Assistant curator at the Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland).

Which methodological tools did you acquire in IMT? 

Besides the tools that allow me to efficiently conceive, conduct and assess scholarly research also outside academia, IMT equipped me with resilience, a collaborative attitude and an outside-the-box thinking mind. 

How did your experience in IMT shape your career?

At IMT I learned to look at cultural heritage and at museum objects in particular as bearers of layered meanings around which interests and drives, even conflicting ones, revolve. This critical gaze is essential to curators in a changing museum landscape. 

IMT in a word: #Forward

What is your current appointment?

I am a Research Collaborator at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. I am currently involved in several projects, focusing both on scientific research and collaboration with cultural institutions.

Which methodological tools did you acquire in IMT? 

At IMT, I benefited from undertaking a stimulating program that empowered me to refine professional and human skills focused on managing both scientific research and field activities.

How did your experience in IMT shape your career?

The AMCH track offered me an active scientific milieu that has contributed to my professional growth in several aspects. IMT intense training challenged me to work with cultural institutions at different levels and conduct research with colleagues worldwide, always guided by senior academic specialists in a positive and encouraging human environment.

IMT in a word: #KnowledgeInteraction