Biography

Valentina Cantori is a sixth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Southern California. Her interests include cultural sociology, sociology of religion, political sociology, and theory. She received her B.A. in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation from the University of Milan, where she also completed her first M.A. in Linguistics. She received her second M.A. in Nationalism Studies and Religious Studies from Central European University, Budapest.

Her current dissertation project focuses on investigating how American Muslims craft public representations of Islam and present “Muslimness” in U.S. civic...

Education

  • M.A. Religion, Central European University, 6/2017
  • MA University of Milan, 2014
  • B.A. Linguistics, University of Milan, 2011
  • CERT University of Damascus
  • CERT Alquds University