Dr Michelangelo Giampaoli is an anthropologist and cultural heritage curator who earned his PhD in Ethnology and Anthropology from the Universities of Perugia in Italy and Paris Nanterre in France, focusing his thesis on the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. For the past two decades, he has worked on researching and promoting cemeteries as spaces of collective memory, identity, and public education in Italy, France, Brazil, and the United States. As part of an international research team, he has also studied public health, community empowerment, religious healing, and mental health deinstitutionalization in both Italy and Brazil. He regularly teaches courses on death and cemeteries in Chicago.

M. Giampaoli (2023) La Vita Sociale dei Cimiteri, Collana ‘Itaca’, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia.

M. Giampaoli (2021) ‘Architectes de leur mort : Cimetières, tombes et rêves de (im)mortalité’, Anthropologie et Sociétés, 45:1-2, 135-153.

M. Giampaoli (2016) ‘La tombe de Benito Mussolini à Predappio: Le culte d’un antihéros’, Ethnologie Française, 162, 347-358.