I remember off-handedly mentioning Barbara (don't want to make their names searchable in this blog) was the only IES instructor I could see teaching at colleges like the University of Illinois. I was very, very wrong. I believe an IES job attracts the best instructors in Rome. It is a very light course load, the brightest minds usually speak English, and most importantly, the payscale is American not Italian. Italian educators don't get compensated anywhere near their American counterparts.
Barbara indeed could be found at a top US school. She is a regular contributor to La Repubblica, Rome's most prominent newspaper, in the Home & Garden section. She is passionate about architecture, but is an interior decorator and freelance landscape architect.
Gianni, who I have mentioned several times, went to UNC-Chapel Hill to get his BA in the Classics, and somewhere along the line got and MA and Ph.D too, I believe. When the national archaeologists were excavating parts of the Imperial Forum, they called Gianni, the expert, to make sure they were doing it right. He ended up being one of the main excavators in the Forum of Augustus, one of the most famous ancient squares in the world. He spends his summers in Africa and the Middle East excavating ancient Roman civilizations. And he tells a mean story. As I am one of his favorites, I get to hear all of them. There are some doozies.
Efisio was a visiting fellow of economics at Princeton around the time Ben Bernanke was there. He was the head of Italy's council of ministers or something. He played a minor role in Italy's integration into the EU, and created the cirriculum for one of Rome's best public policy programs. I was thrown off at first by his teaching style, but then realized that the course was about economics, not an actual economics course. This is one of those rare instances where someone is actually too qualified for a position. He simply knows too much. He can't lecture for too long without having an anecdote or example that better explains the topic, which then leads to another, and another, and another.
They are all good. I have heard of two other professors that students love and say are brilliant. My Italian instructor is really effective too. She is fantastic at recognizing each students deficiencies, something my two other instructors couldn't do.
Barbara indeed could be found at a top US school. She is a regular contributor to La Repubblica, Rome's most prominent newspaper, in the Home & Garden section. She is passionate about architecture, but is an interior decorator and freelance landscape architect.
Gianni, who I have mentioned several times, went to UNC-Chapel Hill to get his BA in the Classics, and somewhere along the line got and MA and Ph.D too, I believe. When the national archaeologists were excavating parts of the Imperial Forum, they called Gianni, the expert, to make sure they were doing it right. He ended up being one of the main excavators in the Forum of Augustus, one of the most famous ancient squares in the world. He spends his summers in Africa and the Middle East excavating ancient Roman civilizations. And he tells a mean story. As I am one of his favorites, I get to hear all of them. There are some doozies.
Efisio was a visiting fellow of economics at Princeton around the time Ben Bernanke was there. He was the head of Italy's council of ministers or something. He played a minor role in Italy's integration into the EU, and created the cirriculum for one of Rome's best public policy programs. I was thrown off at first by his teaching style, but then realized that the course was about economics, not an actual economics course. This is one of those rare instances where someone is actually too qualified for a position. He simply knows too much. He can't lecture for too long without having an anecdote or example that better explains the topic, which then leads to another, and another, and another.
They are all good. I have heard of two other professors that students love and say are brilliant. My Italian instructor is really effective too. She is fantastic at recognizing each students deficiencies, something my two other instructors couldn't do.
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