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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Curriculum vitae of the director of the department

Dr Anna Piella Vila

Anna Piella

Holder of the University (TU, 2002)

Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Teaching

  • At the Degree of Social and Cultural Anthropology

    • Anthropology of Parenting

    • Field Practices in Social and Cultural Anthropology I

    • Ethnographic Approach to Cultural Diversity

    • Degree thesis

  • In the Official MASTER in Anthropology: Advanced Research and Social Intervention. Ethnographic and Transcultural Research Module:

    • Kinship and ethnographic research

    • Identity, person and group (Australia)

Research

  • Researcher member of the SGR GRAFO group (Research Group in Fundamental and Oriented Anthropology -2009 SGR 0053) of the UAB

  • Coordinator since 2010 of the Getp-GRAFO (Grup d'Estudi Transcultural del Parentiu) research team of the UAB GRAFO, shared with Dr Jorge Grau Rebollo since 2017. http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/ getp/en

  • Principal Investigator and Co-IP of various projects, among which stand out:

    • Project R+D+i Challenges CSO2017-83101-C2-1-R. VulneraS Project: Upbringing, helplessness and sociocultural vulnerability. Situational analysis and intervention proposals. Ministry of Science, Research and Universities. IPs: Grau Rebollo, Jorge and Piella Vila, Anna M.

    • Project coordination R+D+i CSO2012-39041-C02-00. Parenting: Anthropological Approaches and Interdisciplinary Connections. General Directorate of Scientific and Technical Research. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. IP: Piella Vila, Anna M.

    • Project I+D+i CSO2012-39041-C02-01. Kinships: Forms of Parenthood and Disciplinary Articulations. General Directorate of Scientific and Technical Research. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. IP: Piella Vila, Anna M.

  • She supervised six doctoral theses, of which are in progress.

Current publications

  • Grau Rebollo, Jorge, Anna Piella Vila, Aurora González Echevarría and María Valdés Gázquez. (2021). "Sociocultural vulnerability in parenting contexts: theoretical challenges and analytical proposal". Disparities. Anthropology Magazine 76(2) https://dra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/dra/article/view/907

  • Grau Rebollo, J. & Piella Vila, A.M., (2021). Presentation. Parenting in contexts of sociocultural vulnerability. In: Gazette of Anthropology. 37, 1, 00. https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/69642

  • Piella Vila, Anna (2020). Kinship, Infertility and Parenthood. Children without children and parental care. Chap.6 'Manifestations of plural kinship' in González Echevarría, A.; Grau Rebollo, J.; Valdés Gázquez, M. (Eds). (2020). Culture, Kinship and Parenthood. GRAFO, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)., pp: 210-226.

  • Piella Vila, Anna (2020). The procreative process and its representations among the Australian Aborigines. Procreation, Kinship, Identity and Territory. Chap. 3 'Notion of person, identity and representations of the procreative process' in González Echevarría, A.; Grau Rebollo, J.; Valdés Gázquez, M. (Eds). (2020). Culture, Kinship and Parenthood. GRAFO, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)., pp: 123-136.

  • Coord. Monographic: Piella Vila, Anna and José M. Uribe (2019) Parenting Scenarios. AIBR, Journal of Ibero-American Anthropology. Volume 14, No. 3, September - December 2019. ISSN: 1695–9752. EISSN: 1578–9705. https://www.aibr.org/anthropologia/netesp/1403.php

Knowledge of university leadership

  • Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology since 2020

  • Coordinator of the Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Courses 1995-96. 2002-04, 2019-2020

  • Teaching Secretary of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Courses 2012-2015

  • Intercanvis Coordinator (Erasmus-Sicue/Seneca-Propi UAB). Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Courses 2008-2012

  • Member of various committees at the departmental level (Grau Teaching Committee, Master's Teaching Committee)