Gabriele Balbi#
| Membership Number: | 6835 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://usi.to/cyi |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7752-277X |
Present and Previous Positions
- Oct 2022 - present Full Professor of Media Studies, Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Switzerland
- Jan 2024 - present Pro-Rector for Education and Students’ Experience, Università della Svizzera italiana
Fields of Scholarship
- Political economy of communication
- Media history
- Science and technology studies
- Media archaeology
- Communication history
Honours and Awards
- Feb 2023 Staff Mobility for Teaching assignment (SEMP), University of Bologna, Department of Arts
- 26 Apr - 2 May 2021 Visiting Fellow, Loughborough University, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), online
- Feb - Sept 2020 Visiting Scholar, Concordia University, Department of Communication Science, Media History Research Centre (MHRC)
- Feb 2018 Visiting Professor, University of Augsburg, Institut für Medien, Wissen und Kommunikation
- Sep 2016, Apr 2018 Visiting Researcher, University of Perugia, Department of Political Sciences
- Feb 2014 Staff Mobility for Teaching assignment (SEMP), Northumbria University
- Nov 2011 - Jul 2012 Visiting Scholar, University of Westminster, CAMRI, United Kingdom
- 2012 Douglas Byrne Marconi Fellowship, funded by Bodleian Library, Oxford University
- Feb - Oct 2011 Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, History Department, USA
- Jun - Aug 2007 Visiting Student, Maastricht University, Social Science & Technology Studies, The Netherlands
- Feb - May 2007 Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, History of Science, USA
